Gretchen Hyman

On the heels of a successful December launch and a $15 million investment from Motorola, Inc. and Liberty Satellite, LLC, San Diego based Aerocast Inc. hit full stride today by teaming with ACTV, a provider of digital interactive programming. The alliance will combine ACTV’s patented technologies, programming, and media content with Aerocast’s platform for delivering […]

Wireless Knowledge put a feather in its cap today with the launch of a new software solution for accessing data from wireless devices. The move strengthened the wireless software maker’s portfolio of mobile data offerings for businesses and no doubt made its parent companies Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. proud of their offspring. AnyStyle software […]

Listen up UPS and Fed Ex. An alliance was formalized today to provide mobile workers and delivery people with a broader selection of hardware and software solutions for field-based mobile communications. Los Angeles-based Thinque will integrate Symbol Technologies Inc.’s handheld computers with its Mobile Solutions Platform software for compatibility with Symbol’s three handheld devices: the […]

MedUnite has selected Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to play a leading role in the company’s effort to create an online commerce solution that connects health care payers and providers. MedUnite is a San Diego-based service company founded and developed by leading health plans such as Aetna, Cigna, PacifiCare, and WellPoint Health Networks to reduce administrative […]

In a potential merger that could combine bicoastal workforces, eSynch Corporation of Tustin, California, and Streamedia Communications, Inc., a New York-based streaming media services company, have announced a Letter of Intent to form a streaming media and hosted services company. Specific terms of the merger have not yet been disclosed, although in a public statement […]

Novatel Wireless, Inc., a San Diego-based provider of wireless data modems and software, today announced a strategic alliance with YadaYada, Inc., a wireless service provider and mobile web portal founded to provide personalized wireless Internet access to mobile users with personal digital assistants. The cobranding agreement will provide YadaYada customers with Novatel’s Minstrel V wireless […]

In response to exploding demand from Los Angeles businesses for high-speed Internet and web hosting services, AT&T Solutions today announced that it will open an Internet data center in Hawthorne, California. The new facility, AT&T’s largest in the United States to date, will provide managed web hosting services for media and entertainment companies, startups, and […]

Calling itself the premier Internet portal for movie and music fanatics, broadband entertainment network Intertainer today announced that it has finalized a long-term agreement with music label EMI Recorded Music, the third largest music company in the world. The deal allows Intertainer to offer its subscribers music videos from EMI’s library that includes recordings from […]

With a cool $50 million recently pocketed from a Series D round of funding in December, Xdrive Technologies is not apt to be resting on its laurels any time soon. The Santa Monica, California-based maker of infrastructure software and services has teamed with one of its investors, Softbank Broadmedia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of […]

Customers will be able to integrate business processes and applications using the combined power of BizTalk Server 2000 and Viacore’s electronic process integration services. Microsoft Corp. has chosen Irvine, California-based Viacore, a process service provider (PSP) for the computer and electronic components industries, as a premier PSP for integration solutions based on RosettaNet, cXML, xCBL, […]

Marketplace solutions provider i2 Technologies Inc. today announced efforts to further expand the scope of its business unit Infinite Content by signing a definitive agreement to acquire the content divisions of Trade Services Corporation, a 70-year-old database publisher of transactional content, and its San Diego-based affiliate ec-Content Inc., a developer and manager of content for […]

Entering the New Year with a promising business alliance, Frontera Corporation and BroadVision Inc. have announced an application service provider (ASP) partnership through which Frontera will build, host, and manage BroadVision applications for companies in a wide range of industries. Details of the partnership have not yet been released, but according to BroadVision’s Vice President […]