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Continuing to team with telecoms, Covad will provide wholesale digital subscriber line service to MCI under a new line-sharing deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. The 2-year pact comes just days after it the Santa Clara, Calif., company signed a multi-year deal with VarTec Telecom. Covad also counts AT&T and Z-Tel among its partners. Covad […]

Holy online, Batman! America Online and DC Comics, both properties of AOL Time Warner , will exclusively publish online a new Batman comic strip this fall on KOL, the first version of AOL designed entirely for children. The series will run daily for a year. According to the Dulles, Va.-based AOL, the online giant and […]

The path to enlightenment took a hard stop at humility this week for Salesforce.com after the hosted applications provider found itself the center of a controversy involving the Dalai Lama. The San Francisco-based company purchased some 500 tickets for a September 5 event at Davies Symphony Hall, where the exiled Tibetan religious leader is scheduled […]

Covad Communications and VarTec Telecom have signed a multi-year deal to bundle DSL and local and long-distance services. Financial terms were not disclosed. VarTec, and its Excel subsidiary, plan to make this new offer available nationwide throughout the next year and will handle customer service and technical support for the packaged offering. “(The deal) demonstrates […]

Ford Motor Company has chosen Reynolds and Reynolds Company to deliver Internet integration services to help Ford reach its goal of having all Ford dealerships to have high-speed Internet access by the end of 2003. As Ford shifts their business and communication applications to a Web-based platform, retailers are being encouraged to meet the necessary […]

After just a month, Firepond’s licensing program is paying dividends. The Minneapolis maker of customer service and e-commerce software said it has licensed three patents to eGain, a provider of call center software. Financial terms of the transaction, which include technology used in Firepond’s Brightware offering, were not disclosed. “Firepond is pleased to add eGain […]

Computer Sciences Corporation has won an IT outsourcing contract from Malaysia’s largest banking group worth $342 million over 10 years. The El Segundo, calif., company, which competes with IBM and EDS for such contracts, hopes the engagement could lead to additional business in the Asia-Pacific region. CSC will handle mainframe, midrange, desktop, hekp-desk and network […]

Unstrung.com is reporting that Mobility Network Systems of San Jose, Calif., has gone out of business, due to lack of funding. As of a check today, the company’s Web site at www.mobilitynetworks.com is no longer up. Mobility Networks was working on tools for converging Wi-Fi and cellular networks. They company had in the past added […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has awarded a five-year, $140 million contract to Lockheed Martin to develop an enterprise-wide security architecture for its computers and networks. Under the contract, the Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin will aid in development of the FBI’s new Technology Infusion Program, a key element of the agency’s effort to “mitigate risk […]

The four regional Bell operating companies — BellSouth, SBC, Verizon and Qwest — face internal and external challenges that will weigh on their businesses at least into 2004, according to a new report from analysts at Standard & Poor’s (S&P). Among them: a declining customer base in their traditional markets; increased competition from new forms […]

GT Nexus Inc., a provider of global logistics technology, and Open Harbor Inc., a provider of global trade management solutions, together launched an ASP-delivered solution to simplify global trade. The initiative, announced Monday, will integrate Open Harbor’s content-rich trade security, compliance and documentation services with GT Nexus’s logistics management, global visibility and event management systems. […]

Collaborative software development solutions provider CollabNet on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with consulting group Valtech, to provide a complete product and service offering for collaborative software development. The partnership provides a complete solution that addresses the limitations of traditional solutions when used for Internet-based development. The partnership focuses on people, process, and workflow associated […]