Erin Joyce

The board of directors of AOL Time Warner is planning to vote yes on nixing AOL from the corporate nameplate when it meets Thursday, a person familiar with the situation told internetnews.com. The change would signal that AOL Time Warner is repositioning itself in the media world after a turbulent three years that followed the […]

IBM has launched a radio frequency identification (RFID) service designed to help companies track their goods from packing to shipping and through their ultimate destination. The new RFID service includes consulting and implementation services as well as specialized software in order to give companies a phased approach to adopting RFID, officials for IBM said. The […]

Free online sporting news from Sports Illustrated‘s Web site is going behind a paid firewall, and even America Online subscribers won’t be getting a free peek at the content from the ISP’s corporate cousins in Time Warner publishing. The publication said it is gathering features from the magazine’s site, such as columns and other specially-formatted […]

Consumer electronics groups and broadcasters are hailing a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that paves the way for high-definition and digital television rollouts, as well as a coming era of zapping digital television content to other devices. The FCC’s so-called “Plug & Play” ruling means that retailers will be selling televisions that decrypt and […]

America Online has gussied up its “AOLbyPhone” service with new features aimed at keeping its wireless phone-using members just a keypad away from checking e-mail or updating personal Weblogs . The new features in the service include the ability to use voice commands to reply to e-mail messages that have been checked over a phone, […]

Number portability along with bundled services are taking on a new look under a calling system about to roll out from Cingular, SBC and BellSouth that integrates wireless numbers with wireline numbers. Cingular Wireless, whose parent companies are SBC Communications and BellSouth , plans to roll out a new wireless service that lets wireless phone […]

Telecom giant MCI (formerly WorldCom), trying to shed over $35 billion in debt from the largest corporate bankruptcy in history, said it has struck a deal with dissenting creditors that were standing in the way of blessing its reorganization plan. In a statement Tuesday, Michael Capellas, MCI’s chairman and CEO, said “with today’s proposed settlement […]

Bell Canada and Nortel Networks are teaming up to build out new IP telephony services for the telecom giant’s enterprise customers, a move that comes with an initial investment of $146 million (US, $200 million CDN) over three years. Bell Canada said it plans to work in conjunction with Aliant and Bell West along with […]

Nicholas Carr may have started the debate with his Harvard Business Review article last May called “IT Doesn’t Matter.” But the article’s thesis — and the resulting arguments it attracted — have taken on a life of their own. Even today, after months and boatloads of ink that rode the wave of impassioned rebukes that […]

Major creditors of bankrupt telecom MCI, formerly known as WorldCom, have voted to approve a reorganization plan for the company, as it prepares for a series of hearings next week to gain court approval. In a bankruptcy court filing made public Thursday, a group of creditors, which collectively hold an estimated 90 percent of the […]

Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, has pleaded not guilty to 15 securities fraud charges brought against him by the Oklahoma Attorney General. During a court appearance in the Oklahoma County Court in Oklahoma City Wednesday, Ebbers’ attorney entered the pleas. The charges, 15 in all, carry a penalty of 10 years in prison […]

Certificate authority banking consortium Identrus (www.identrus.com) has thrown its weight behind a group of developing standards in the single sign-on movement by joining Web services interoperability group Liberty Alliance. Identrus, which is made up of 60 global banks that work on policies and frameworks for identity management in Web services , joins as a supporting […]