Erin Joyce

In a signal that original programming is among its key priorities, ISP America Online has brought in two media veterans to work on children- and community-focused programming, creating two new positions in the process. The online unit of AOL Time Warner , said Malcolm Bird, a former executive with children’s channel Nickelodeon UK, has joined […]

Computer services giant EDS , struggling to regain its footing amid a sharp drop in IT services contracts, said that an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its stock sales and recent earnings guidance has moved to a formal investigation. In a brief statement late Friday, the Plano, Texas IT company said […]

Richard Parsons, the chief executive of AOL Time Warner’s , will take the reins of chairman when AOL founder Steve Case steps down from the post in May, the media conglomerate said Thursday. The company’s board of directors voted to combine the positions of chairman and chief executive officer and unanimously elected Parsons to the […]

IBM’s revenues were up by 7 percent during the fourth quarter, but its profit tumbled overall by 56 percent in part from charges on acquisitions, layoffs, and asset write-offs amid a continued slump in technology spending. Global services, IBM’s consulting and IT services division, continued leading the way among all of IBM’s divisions with a […]

Analysts and industry observers alike are expressing little surprise over AOL Time Warner Chairman Steve Case’s abrupt announcement Sunday that he would step down from his role as chairman in May. But whether AOL will have a reduced role in the company’s future, or any role at all, are among the new questions Case’s departure […]

Steve Case, the embattled chairman of AOL Time Warner Inc. and an architect of America Online’s merger with Time Warner, will resign the position, the company announced Sunday. Case said he would leave the position effective when the company’s shareholders gather for their annual meeting in May but that he plans to remain a director […]

Computer services giant Electronic Data Services has named a Robert Swan, a former GE and TRW executive, as its new chief financial officer. The 42-year-old Swan is set to replace current CFO Jim Daley, who is moving to oversee EDS’s client care organizations. The executive change comes as EDS works to regain its footing and […]

Is “push” technology making a comeback in the Internet world? Haters of spam — the ultimate push technology used over the Internet — would argue it never went away. Others say the concept is but one part of the Web Services movement, which is fundamentally about making applications interface over a network such as the […]

JP Morgan Chase has finalized its largest-ever contract, a seven-year outsourcing agreement with IBM worth in excess of $5 billion, the commercial/investment bank announced Monday. The deal also ranks as IBM’s largest outsourcing agreement, eclipsing its seven-year, $4 billion outsourcing arrangement with American Express. Perhaps more important for IBM, the contract with JP Morgan Chase […]

Information technology vendors: expect growth — slow growth — in enterprise IT spending during 2003. IT consultants: prepare to scramble even more for the key opportunity in your sector, outsourcing. Those are just two of the consensus trends that tech researchers and analysts are forecasting for the coming year in IT services. Surveys from all […]

America Online has won a legal victory against a long time nemesis, CN Productions, which AOL has repeatedly accused of spamming its members with a daily barrage of pornographic e-mails. The ISP said a U.S. District Court in Virginia has awarded it close to $7 million in statutory damages in connection with its ongoing complaint […]

For many cable executives, new video-on-demand services have a “so far, so good” feel to them. The service, with its VCR-like qualities such as pausing and rewinding, is new in many markets this year. Cable companies say VOD is catching on nicely, bringing in incremental revenues for on-demand programs and movies that average about $3.95 […]