Erin Joyce

IBM has been tapped to provide core disaster recovery/business continuity IT services for three major New York hospitals in a contract worth about $380 million. The deal puts Big Blue in charge of establishing disaster recovery and back-up facilities for Mount Sinai Hospital, New York University Medical Center and NYU Downtown Hospital in New York […]

After a series of events that has drained computer services giant EDS of some of its near-term cash on hand, the IT computer services company late Tuesday said raised $1.1 billion in debt as it moves to put a turnaround strategy into motion. On Friday, Standard & Poor’s cut the Plano, Texas, company’s debt rating […]

Microsoft has named Peter Cullen as its new chief privacy strategist to help bolster its “Trustworthy Computing” initiative aimed at improving the reliability and security of its software products. Cullen, who leaves his position as corporate privacy officer for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), replaces Richard Purcell, who reportedly resigned in March. The new privacy […]

A survey of information technology executives conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit has found that more than half of senior executives worldwide believe their existing information technology (IT) networks are not adequate to handle their main business goals over the next two years. The survey, which was commissioned by AT&T and conducted by the business […]

A former financial executive of Symbol Technologies has pleaded guilty to federal charges of fraudulent accounting while employed by the Holtsville, N.Y.-based wireless technology company. During a court appearance Thursday, Robert Korkuc became the second former Symbol official to plead guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges related to a scheme to inflate revenues between 1998 […]

Call it on-demand computing services packaged for the smaller business set. Computer systems vendor Hewlett-Packard has struck a new alliance with enterprise resource planning software provider NetLedger to offer a range of pay-as-you-go hardware and software services. The two companies said they would work together to offer a range of computing services — from hardware […]

Despite Oracle’s sweetened offer to acquire PeopleSoft , the enterprise application vendor is pushing to close its $1.75 billion merger plan with fellow application company J.D. Edwards . The company on Thursday said it launched an exchange offering in order to close the deal, which offers J.D. Edwards stockholders cash or PeopleSoft common stock. The […]

AT&T is the latest telecommunications company to sharpen its elbows in a bid to snag new business customers whose Web hosting companies have gone under or are about to exit the Web hosting business. The new effort comes a little over a week after long distance company Sprint Sprint announced it would exit its money-losing […]

Enterprise application vendor PeopleSoft , moving to fend off a hostile takeover bid from database giant Oracle , filed a lawsuit Friday that charges “unfair business practices, trade libel,” and “tortious interference” with PeopleSoft’s customer relationships. The complaint characterized Oracle’s $5.1 billion cash bid for the company as a “sham tender offer aimed at destroying […]

AT&T’s chief executive pledged to continue building out a “new era” of networking and telecommunications services by one of the nation’s oldest telcos, while tending its balance sheet in order to trim debt. During its 118th annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, AT&T chairman and CEO David Dorman said the company would end the year with net […]

Two executives of MCI, formerly known as WorldCom, have resigned in the wake of two scathing reports that detailed extensive “mismanagement” of the telecommunications giant leading up to its collapse into bankruptcy. Michael Salsbury, executive vice president and general counsel of the company and Susan Mayer, senior vice president and treasurer, tendered their resignations Tuesday. […]

In a deal expected to help boost its profile in the wireless networking sector, NetMotion Wireless, a software provider for enterprise networks, has been tapped by AT&T Wireless to provide VPN services for its GPRS network. The deal places the Seattle-based NetMotion Wireless at the center of a number of vertical industries that are grappling […]