Erin Joyce

United Online , which offers $9.95 a month online services, roped in 229,000 new dial-up subscribers during its fiscal third-quarter which helped it boost revenues by 45 percent and build a record profit. The results were a stark contrast to United’s higher-priced narrowband rivals, notably AOL , Microsoft’s MSN and Earthlink , all of which […]

America Online and Network Associates are rolling out a premium anti-virus service for AOL subscribers that goes beyond checking attachments and works with AOL’s broadband firewall service. AOL already offers attachment-scanning as part of its monthly service. But the latest premium anti-virus service provides users with an elevated level of protection in order to protect […]

Enterprise management software maker Computer Associates is joining the on-demand trend by unveiling six new products for its Unicenter suite of software that help customers “dial-in” network management resources as they need. The new products are modules to be used with CA’s Unicenter family of infrastructure management applications that monitor different platforms across a customer’s […]

In a move that signals further consolidation in the small but lucrative dynamic caching software segment, WARP Technology Holdings has purchased iMimic Networking in a stock deal worth about $7 million. As enterprise networks move to distributed applications across wider enterprise networks, the two companies are essentially bulking up in order to offer a wider […]

Amazon slipped back into the red during the first quarter of 2003, but the online retailing giant raised its outlook for the year after its sales grew by 28 percent for the second straight quarter. The world’s largest online retailer said its net loss for the quarter was $10 million, or 3 cents per share […]

NEW YORK — Like the development of the Java programming language in its early days, the Web services movement is traveling a “bumpy road” right now, an IBM executive said. But that road is being paved over while Web services deployment among many businesses continues moving into production and wide use, added Mark Colan, senior […]

In a win for Big Blue’s “on-demand” strategy, General Dynamics’ Electric Boat shipbuilding division has awarded IBM a multi-year contract to provide what is called the shipbuilding industry’s first Internet-based supply chain network. IBM is expected to provide on-demand computing infrastructure to help Electric Boat automate its supply chain by linking up partners, suppliers and […]

Among major systems and tech vendors rolling out “on demand” or “organic IT” versions of utility computing, who is off to the strongest start? According to an analyst with Forrester Research, it’s HP’s utility data center offerings by a nose, with IBM on its heels, and Sun Microsystems running a distant third. Only three systems […]

Hewlett-Packard has snagged two computer services contracts in European markets that together account for over $1.3 billion worth of business to the tech vendor. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based tech giant has won a contract to provide computer services to the Swedish Agency for Public Management in a contract valued at about $709 million (650 million […]

IT services company EDS , itself no stranger to billion-dollar “megadeal” outsourcing contracts, is taking a “smaller is better” approach with a string of business process outsourcing contracts collectively valued at $117 million. The business process outsourcing (BPO) services are for clients across multiple industries and geographies, and will be served by a newly-named unit […]

AT&T is unveiling new enhancements to its metropolitan area network (MAN) services that extend enhanced fiber optic data speeds to businesses, in a move to offer more flexibility to local businesses’ “last mile” data connections. AT&T calls the upgraded package High Performance Access Service (HiPAS), which is geared for large enterprise customers and government agencies […]

Global services and middleware sales helped boost tech bellwether IBM’s revenues by 11 percent to $20.1 billion during the first quarter of 2003, thanks to its PwC acquisition and steady sales in its middleware software lines. But ongoing cost-cutting measures, such as layoffs and exiting its hard disk drive manufacturing business during 2002, also made […]