Christine Gordon

A digital asset management collaboration between IBM and Sony Electronics is expected to enable Turner Broadcasting’s CNN to digitally manage 120,000 hours of archival material, gathered during the past 21 years of the media giant’s existence. The five-to-seven-year, $20-million project will put CNN’s analog videotape archive online in a virtual file cabinet for journalists and […]

Accenture Ltd. and Sony Electronics are joining to parent a management-consulting joint venture for media companies that guides television broadcasters and film studios into developing and using digital technologies. In the joint venture, termed Concadia Solutions LLC, Sony will be charged with supplying video equipment and know-how to clients — while Accenture will offer management […]

Surprise… another security flaw has popped-up on Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 5.x and Outlook Express E-mail service. This time, even when Active Scripting is disabled it continues to execute — allowing would-be hackers to use HTML-formatted messages to read files on a user’s machine. In an advisory put out today, by Georgi Guninski, a well-known […]

Fort Worth-based Travelocity.com Inc. has reported its first quarterly operating profit, after excluding charges, one quarter ahead of the company’s expectations. The five-year old online hotel and airline ticket broker said its first-quarter operating earnings before charges were $618,000, or three cents a diluted share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $5.6 million, or 31 […]

Two conflicting online auto buying releases have surfaced on the heels of Amazon/CarDirect.com’s New York marketplace entry. CNW Marketing Research’s “Online Vehicle-Pricing Accuracy Study” found that consumers who rely on the Internet for dealer invoice and Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) data are being milked for hundreds of dollars by car sites that negligently post […]

Putting its undersea cables to work, Global Crossing Ltd. said it will roll-out services that connect media and entertainment companies across its fiber optic network. The New York-based company — which constructed an expansive worldwide network of undersea cables — has established itself as a pro in chalking up telecoms on its acquisition’s blackboard. Now, […]

Demonstrating its dedication as a pure technology career services play, New York-based EarthWeb Inc. Tuesday said it intends to change its name to Dice Inc., pending shareholder approval. Once known as an operator of more than a dozen Web sites and newsletters, EarthWeb sold most of its properties, including Developer.com, Datamation, CrossNodes, EarthWeb Direct and […]

Kent, Conn.-based Outpost.com has slashed its work force by 110 employees, or 30 percent, and replaced president and CEO Katherine Vick with its chairman and founder, Darryl Peck. The CEO swap and workforce paring down comes as no surprise. In the last few weeks rumors have materialized as reality as the once promising retailer of […]

Renewing hopes that independent online travel sellers can compete and survive against well-known airlines selling tickets online, Expedia said it expects to report its first quarterly operating profit — a declaration that bested analyst’s estimates. Expedia said it expects earnings before noncash items to be about $4 million, or nine cents a share, for its […]

Keenly aware that other players in the Internet’s shrinking arena have dove-tailed into obscurity, Luminant Worldwide Corp. has attempted to quell shareholder fears by confirming an earlier announcement that it expects to be profitable in the first quarter of 2001. “In the days since our recent earnings press release and conference call, many competitors have […]

Early this morning, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed its plans to refashion bookseller Borders Group Inc.’s struggling online entity, Borders.com. As a result of the deal, 70 Borders.com employees are expected to lose their jobs. The alliance comes at a time when Borders.com continues to falter in its online endeavor to sell books via the Net. For […]

Compaq Computer said ActiveX programs that ship with its popular desktop and notebook Presario lines contain a flaw which could allow hackers to over-write files on users’ machines if they visit a specially-constructed Web page or read a booby-trapped HTML e-mail. In an advisory issued late yesterday, Compaq said it includes the ActiveX controls on […]