Erin Joyce

AOL Time Warner said it may have to restate up to $400 million in revenues as the result of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission probe over how its AOL unit accounted for advertising deals. In its annual report filed with the SEC Friday, AOL Time Warner said the transactions were related to advertising sales […]

Cable giant Comcast is the latest ISP to join the tiered data services parade by rolling out 3.5 megabit per second high-speed Internet service to its newly-integrated AT&T Broadband customers. Tim Fitzpatrick, a Comcast spokesman, said the Comcast Pro service offers data transmission speeds of 3.5 megabits per second (Mbps) and 384 kilobytes per second […]

Just weeks after the release of Microsoft’s latest instant messaging software beta for enterprise users, a key executive on the program has defected to news and data provider Reuters. David Gurle, who headed Microsoft’s “Greenwich” project — the code-name for the new IM beta — has taken the job of Global head of Collaboration Services […]

Wireless phone maker and electronics company Motorola has awarded IT services company Computer Sciences a 10-year outsourcing contract that is valued at about $1.6 billion. The arrangement calls for CSC to manage Motorola’s midrange, desktop and distributed computing infrastructure systems at many of its data centers around the globe. In addition, CSC staff are to […]

Shares of wireless bar-code scanning device maker Symbol Technologies were off by just over 2 percent to $19.29 Wednesday, a day after a former executive pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to a “channel stuffing” scheme to inflate the company’s earnings. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against 44-year-old Robert […]

UPDATE: America Online has unveiled a new voice mail service for its subscribers that lets them manage and forward voice mail files digitally, along with their e-mail, in one inbox. The premium product, which costs $5.95 a month, is part of the ISP’s enhanced broadband offerings it is gearing up to release next week, which […]

Outsourcing deals may be all the rage with corporations trying to slash operating costs, but only half actually manage to meet expectations, according to a new study. Tech research firm Gartner said a survey of executives about their outsourcing deals shows that 50 percent of external service provider (ESP) projects will be considered unsuccessful by […]

AT&T said it has no plans to lay off more than 3,500 employees throughout this year, disputing sources familiar with the company that said the number of pink slips could hit just under 5,000. A spokesperson for AT&T, Sue Fleming, said the layoffs, which were announced on January 6th, are being implemented in a rolling […]

I want my XML . As the adoption of extensible markup language (XML) spreads to corporate networks, helping computers speak to each other more efficiently over the Web, what about XML for humans? After all, the financial world has its own dialect of XML, called XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). Tech services vendors have all […]

While regional bell operating companies (RBOCs) sort out where to invest in new high-speed data services, fiber optic networking company Time Warner Telecom is rolling into local markets with metro Ethernet services at blistering speeds of up to 1 Gbps . And soon to come from the metro-area broadband provider: 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings that […]

Struggling number two computer services firm EDS has ousted Richard Brown, its chairman and chief executive officer, though not without a hefty price. The company made the move as part of a management shake up in the senior ranks and replaced him with the former CEO of CBS, Michael Jordan. But Brown’s severance package, which […]

Regional Bell operating company Verizon , which is preparing to launch a co-branded broadband offering with Microsoft’s MSN, is expanding the number of lines equipped for delivering broadband access by nearly 30 percent. The goal is to make its DSL service available to 10 million homes by the end of the year. The upgrade comes […]