Colin C. Haley

Reverberations of a scandal involving IBM’s South Korea unit are beginning to be felt in the United States. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are looking into a bribery and bid-rigging allegations raised by South Korean authorities over the weekend, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. […]

IBM’s new chip foundry has won a new semiconductor order from Taiwan’s VIA Technologies and snatched a key contract from Taiwan’s TSMC in the process. “This is a good example of how clients turn to IBM when they require advanced technology and manufacturing know-how,” IBM spokesman Chris Andrews told internetnews.com. Terms of the deal were […]

For years, IT manufacturers ignored the consumer electronics market — the profit margin was too thin, demand was too unpredictable. But the advent of broadband, wireless home networking, digital content and PCs that serve as home entertainment hubs has sparked new interest. For proof, look no further than this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in […]

In a windfall for telecom equipment and transport companies, the federal government this morning awarded lucrative contracts to build a global optical network. After months of review and testing, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the organization heading up the project, chose Ciena , Cisco , Juniper Networks , Qwest , Sprint and Sycamore to […]

Verizon Communications will pay MCI $169 million in cash to settle six years of legal wrangling over inter-connection fees. In addition, the New York and Ashburn, Va., telecom companies agreed to a rate schedule for handling each other’s traffic over the next three years. “Both sides decided they would be better off resolving their differences […]

Vodafone has chosen Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to provide a search platform for Vodaphone live!, its consumer service offering. Terms were not disclosed. Vodafone live! delivers news, information, e-mail, chat, location-based services, games and shopping to customers’ mobile devices. The service is already live in Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, […]

PCTEL and Micro-Star International (MSI) hope to simplify Wi-fi setups in homes and small businesses with a new joint offering. Under a licensing deal, MSI will bundle PCTEL’s soft access point software with its WLAN devices and PC motherboards. “We are going directly to (the designers and manufacturers),” Biju Nair, a PCTEL vice president, told […]

Infosys Technologies , an IT consulting and outsourcing firm, has a new radio frequency identification offering to help companies better manage supply chains and inventories. The Bangalore, India, company said its RFID service will allow customers to evaluate RFID in the context of their business and develop a plan to phase-in the technology. An Infosys […]

Thanks to the public and retail sectors, overall IT spending is continuing its slow rebound, according to a new survey from consultants Wendover and Global Insight. The Wendover-Global Insight IT Spending Index, which measures the intentions of IT decision-makers to invest in near-term capital projects, rose 19 percent to 49.5 in October. The jump comes […]

After two years of a wrenching dot-com fallout and technology recession, 2003 marked a time when growth prospects for information technology improved, all while innovation kept marching on. CIOs budgeted for hardware and software upgrades again. Sector leaders bought startups to attack new markets. And several technologies advanced on the ‘early adopter’ to ‘mass market’ […]

When it comes to outsourcing IT services, you’ll find no greater advocate than the United Kingdom. In recent weeks, government agencies have awarded a slew of multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contracts to design, manage and integrate computer systems. The latest is the U.K. National Health Service, which today signed two deals totaling $3.35 billion to groups led […]

Making inroads in the retail sector, Sun Microsystems today announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar deal with Office Depot for Unix-based servers and storage systems. Specific terms were not disclosed. “We’ve been working with this retailer for six months to help them solve problems and transform their business,” Sun spokesman Aaron Cohen told internetnews.com. In recent months, […]