Erin Joyce

America Online has released version 8.0 of its e-mail client to beta testers, and the buzz is that it’s a significant improvement featuring more personalization, more rich media and more room for ad units. Beyond the radically changed design, the new client represents AOL’s attempt to incorporate rich media — part of the ISP’s quest […]

Technology publisher Ziff Davis Media is expected to announce by the end of this week whether it will enter into a pre-packaged bankruptcy filing or keep slogging through its current restructuring. A spokesperson for the New York-based company said it would know by the end of this week whether it would submit a pre-packaged bankruptcy […]

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against a Seattle-based software company in a free speech case that also seeks to roll back parts of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The ACLU filed the complaint on behalf of computer researcher Benjamin Edelman, who wants to examine the content blocking software owned by N2H2. […]

Analysts raced to downgrade AOL Time Warner and investors rapidly hit the sell button Thursday after the media giant disclosed a routine Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and a sluggish outlook for its flagship ISP. During a conference call Wednesday evening to discuss second quarter results, AOL Time Warner’s CEO Richard Parsons disclosed that the […]

Revenue gains among AOL Time Warner’s old media assets helped the company reach profitability during the second quarter, while offsetting continued weakness in its flagship ISP America Online. Advertising and comerce revenues at AOL fell by 42 percent during the period and the outlook for the rest of the year remained soft for the unit. […]

Networking hardware giant Lucent , struggling to withstand a severe drop in orders from the telecommunications industry, said it would lay off about 7,000 workers as it posted a second quarter loss of $7.84 billion ($2.30 per share). The Murray Hill, N.J.-based company, said its revenues were $2.9 billion during its third fiscal quarter ending […]

For years, desktop anti-virus software has been one of the first lines of defense against viruses for both home computer users and businesses. But as the sophistication of viruses continues to increase, many experts now believe that anti-virus software alone in no longer enough. When the Klez.H virus was first discovered in April, e-mail security […]

Tech bellwether IBM’s profits tumbled during the second quarter of this year, a reflection of customers worried about the economy and the sale of its money-losing hard disk drive business. The results were delivered in a split fashion because of the HDD unit sale, which IBM had said would contribute to a charge of between […]

Interactive and digital services firm Scient has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced the sale of some assets and operations to SBI and Company, a professional services firm based in Salt Lake City. The New York-based Scient, which consolidated operations here when it merged with digital services firm iXL of Atlanta, also said […]

The digital division of The New York Times Company has pulled off its fourth straight quarter with an operating profit, its parent company announced today. Revenues for NYTD increased 15.9 percent in the second quarter to $17.8 million, from $15.3 million in the 2001 second quarter. The results were part of The New York Times’ […]

AT&T and Sun Microsystems, Inc. are teaming up to sell soup-to-nuts managed hosting services, a move that could help both companies carve their way into new industry verticals. The arrangement combines Sun’s enterprise platforms with AT&T managed hosting services, including the telecom giant’s new integrated global enterprise management system (iGEMS), which helps clients manage networks […]

More consolidation has hit semi-conductor equipment manufacturers with Veeco Instruments and FEI Company announcing they have merged in a $1 billion stock deal. The companies said based on their combined sales of $825 million last year, the merger creates the sixth largest U.S. semiconductor equipment company and the third largest U.S. supplier of metrology equipment […]