Erin Joyce

In a sign of its double-pronged approach to interactive marketing, America Online is rolling out new instant messaging greetings features to its user base on Monday. The Instant Greetings — kind of like greeting card animations and IM messages rolled into one — come on the heels of AOL’s exclusive concert of the band Staind […]

Electronic Data Systems , already facing a Securities and Exchange Commission probe over its stock-selling strategies, has been asked by the SEC to produce documents regarding its troubled intranet outsourcing contract with the U.S. Navy. In its latest quarterly filing with the SEC, the computer services company said the SEC staff has requested certain documents […]

NEWYORK — Businesses will stick to small purchases and minor upgrades according to US Bancorp Piper Jaffray software analysts. Speaking during a panel discussion Tuesday at the investment firm’s technology conference here, the analysts, as well as a networking security consultant, said the biggest reason they expect a spending uptick is because so many IT […]

Take the late 1990-bubble years out of the IT industry and what remains is a steady progression upward in its growth curve, which today represents a $1.3 trillion industry, IBM’s chief executive said Wednesday. “The IT industry continues to be a growth industry because it is solving important problems” across every sector of the economy, […]

In a move that signals more exclusive programming for America Online’s broadband subscribers, the ISP has named Kevin Conroy to a newly-created position as executive vice president and chief operating officer for its Broadband division. Conroy, who will report to AOL Broadband President Lisa Hook, will shift out of position as a senior vice president […]

Mercury Interactive , which makes code diagnostic software for enterprise systems, has snapped up Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) code specialist company Performant in a $22.5 million cash deal. The purchase could help Mercury bulk up in order to compete more effectively with fellow platform diagnostics player Rational Software, which was recently purchased by IBM […]

Cable companies still have the lion’s share of the high-speed data provider market, as much as 70 percent of the 16 million subscribers in the U.S., according to numerous research outfits. But pricing pressure from broadband competitors such as Verizon DSL could begin eating into that lead, while satellite players offering cheaper programming packages threaten […]

Neil Budde helped launch one of the more successful, and among the first of the paid-only online content sites, The Wall Street Journal Interactive. Today, the site is thriving and inching toward profitability with over 660,000 paying customers. But in the meantime, its lack of profitability is often cited in the ongoing free vs. paid […]

A major outsourcing contract with the U.S. Navy led to a first quarter net loss of $126 million for computer services giant EDS , largely due to a write-off of $334 million from the Navy deal. The Plano, Texas EDS, said it had to recognize a $334 million pre-tax loss on its $7 billion multi-year […]

NEW YORK — The chief executive of Sun Microsystems Tuesday said Linux’s destiny is to dominate the PC, but defended his company’s go-it-slow support of the open source operating system on its servers and systems. “We think the big winner with Linux will be on the desktop,” said Scott McNealy during a Q&A session at […]

On the heels of earnings results that showed revenues jumping by 43 percent, USA Interactive’s chief executive is reaffirming the company’s decision to abandon its media roots for a future in e-commerce — and streamlined balance sheet. Barry Diller, the chairman and CEO of e-commerce company USA Interactive , told shareholders in a letter released […]

Microsoft has issued patches to address two vulnerabilities that affect its BizTalk Server 2000 and version 2002 software, the enterprise application integration server that enables communications over intranet and extranet environments. The first vulnerability affects the HTTP Receiver function found only in BizTalk Server 2002. This feature allows users/partners/etc. to trade information or documents through […]