Erin Joyce

Information technology consultancy Computer Sciences Corporation is creating a bigger footprint in the government sector with its $950 million purchase of IT firm DynCorp. The merger, which includes CSC’s assumption of all of DynCorp’s $273 million debt, would rank CSC as a top 10 government contractor, the companies said. Once it closes after customary federal […]

Comcast is wasting no time as it looks to bring in new revenues from its investment in digital cable systems and specialty publisher Primedia has added video-on-demand as another distribution arm for its advertisers. The cable giant is about to launch new VOD products in its Philadelphia market in conjunction with Primedia . The new […]

America Online may be close to striking cable broadband carriage deals like the ones it has with Comcast and corporate sibling Time Warner Cable. But the hefty carriage fees it faces from cable providers add up to iffy prospects for making money off broadband, consumer advocates say. On Tuesday, AOL Time Warner’s Chief Executive Richard […]

IT consulting firm Answerthink has become an official reseller of SAP’s enterprise software now that it has purchased the business lines from fellow consultancy Condor Technology Solutions. The sale, which was valued at about $1 million in cash plus liabilities, puts Answerthink in the business of selling SAP enterprise resource planning software and product lines […]

A spokesman for cable company Charter Communications said its move to restructure costs and lay off a “significant” number of its 18,700 employees would not impact its investments in broadband and digital cable services. David Andersen, senior vice president of communications for the nation’s third-largest cable company, said the layoffs and cuts would have no […]

When America Online unveiled a peek of its prototype version 9.0 during its analyst day in New York on Tuesday, it also highlighted the increasing dominance of instant messaging on computer desktops. The new version of AOL’s service, slated for release in 2003, offers 30 different personalization modules that users can choose from to set […]

NEW YORK — America Online executives unveiled plans to turn around the beleaguered ISP’s fortunes during an analyst meeting Tuesday, including a new “bring your own” broadband offering and a new anti-virus service. During a day of presentations to Wall Street analysts, which included plenty of “straight talk” from executives about AOL’s revenue woes, the […]

The New York Stock Exchange has taken another step toward real-time processing by ridding itself of a decades-old process of batching trades and sending them to be cleared at the end of the day. A new system, called the On-Line Comparison System (OCS) now sends equities trades to the exchange’s clearing system as they are […]

After spending most of the year answering accounting questions about how it met sales targets in order to pay top executives’ bonuses, software and IT consultancy Computer Associates is fending off a new round of accounting questions. But this time, investors and analysts appear to be shrugging off the news. Stories in Monday’s The Wall […]

In what is being called the largest identity theft case in U.S. history, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney charged three men with running an identity theft ring that impacted more than 30,000 consumers whose credit information was stolen and abused. The U.S. Attorney’s office in New York said to date, their investigation discovered more […]

Calling all technology and science experts. Uncle Sam is looking for volunteers for a new IT National Guard that will be established by the landmark legislation package that creates the Department of Homeland Security. President Bush is expected to sign the bill into law today. The Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act, or NET Guard […]

America Online is looking to add incremental revenue by extending its membership to a new tier of subscribers: the so-called “un-banked.” The ISP now is offering a pre-paid card to woo users without credit or bank debit cards. The service is one of a flurry of new incremental revenue and e-commerce initiatives rolling out as […]