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Strengthening an existing partnership, EarthLink will offer its PeoplePC Online discount dial-up Internet service at 600 Circuit City stores in the United States. “Demand for PeoplePC Online is accelerating as consumers increasingly realize they can get high quality, reliable access from a value provider,” said Janet West, a PeoplePC vice president. For about half the […]

After months of review and negotiation, infrastructure outsourcer NaviSite has completed its acquisition of ClearBlue Technologies’ data centers for 1.1 million shares of stock. The Andover, Mass., firm picks up six of the CBT facilities today and will take control of the remaining four in February for no additional compensation. “Because CBT has set up […]

Auction giant eBay has shaved $30 million from its second-quarter results after a patent infringement verdict against it was upheld. A U.S. federal court judge in Virginia last week lowered the amount eBay had to pay to plaintiff MercExchange by $5 million, but refused to set aside the verdict or order a new trial. In […]

Acxiom , one of the world’s largest specialists in customer and information management, confirmed Friday that it had been hacked, and that information about some customers of its clients was downloaded. “An individual, who was a former employee of an Acxiom client, was arrested in conjunction with this incident,” the company said in a statement […]

Staffing management ASP Recruitforce.com this week unveiled the latest enhancements to its web-based recruiting suite. Recruitforce.com 4.0 includes enhanced customization features, a redesigned user interface, and a web services integration API. “From technology and services to retail and healthcare, Recruitforce.com has penetrated a diverse array of industries very quickly” said Bill Almon, Chairman of Recruitforce.com. […]

AirDefense of Alpharetta, Georgia, says that during monitoring at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas last weekend the company identified new security issues specifically effecting wireless LANs. The first is a new Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that can knock “targeted user stations off the WLAN, forcing stations or access points to shutdown, or disrupting all […]

Sprint , the Overland Park, Kan., telecom carrier, has signed two new multi-year, multi-million dollar deals to provide services for call centers. The first is with First Contact Inc., a subsidiary of IntelliRisk Management Corp. (IRMC), that handles back-end work for credit cards firms. Implementation work has already begun on the $3.5 million project. Under […]

For Cisco, the $480 million it plunked down for Linksys was money (or stock to be accurate) well spent in two ways: it gave it an immediate and dominant presence in the home networking market and provided new source of revenue besides stingy service providers. CEO John Chambers, during a conference call with analysts yesterday, […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its August 2003 survey from 42,807,275 sites. This is 508,904 (1.2 percent) more sites than responded in July, and it represents a new peak in the number of responses received. As usual, Apache, Microsoft, and […]

Web-based meetings and events industry service provider StarCite Inc. on Monday announced its acquisition of privately held competitor b-there Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In combining the two providers of attendee relationship management and enterprise meetings management tools, StarCite expects to process more than 1 million registration transactions annually and manage more […]

In transactions that it says will allow it to provide the “industry’s broadest range of SAN connectivity products,” LightSand, a developer of high-end SAN gateway products, announced today that it has wrapped up a new round of funding and also acquired SANcastle Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) gateways and inter-fabric […]

Hotspots are growing by leaps and bounds, and so, it seems, are Web sites devoted to finding them. WiFi 411 is the latest such hotspot directory. The site officially launched today with listings for more than 8,900 hotspots around the world. Visitors to the site can search for hotspots by country, state, city or network […]