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Broadband service provider XO Communications will use VeriSign’s TeleBlock service to avoid violating state and federal “do-not-call” laws. Financial terms of the deal between the Reston, Va., and Mountain View, Calif., firms were not disclosed. VeriSign’s offering blocks connection of unwanted calls and faxes to telephone numbers of consumers. It’s based on software from Call […]

Spanish telecom giant Telefonica has completed its tender offer for Terra Lycos and now owns about 72 percent of the Internet content and access firm. Previously, Telefonica owned about 33 percent of Terra Lycos, but felt the firm would do better in-house than as an independent company. Telefonica also waived its own previous provision that […]

Computer Sciences Corp. has won an $11 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) to provide e-learning programs and knowledge support. The contract was awarded through ANSWER, a a broad multiple-award contract sponsored by the General Services Administration in 1998. Computer Science’s Training Center of Excellence will support the contract. The center, […]

InfoSpace has introduced a private-label version of its Dogpile search toolbar and has signed ABCNEWS.com as the product’s first customer. Dogpile is primarily known as a popular meta search services, querying 13 major engines including Google, FAST, Ask Jeeves and Inktomi. With the Dogpile toolbar, which was introduced late last month, users can gain access […]

RSA Security has reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that resolves an investigation dating back to the first quarter of 2001. The probe centered on whether a change in RSA’s method for estimating distributor revenue, disclosed in its quarterly report filed with the SEC, should have also been in its earning […]

Cable modem broadband service is expected to grow at high speeds. In-Stat/MDR reports that total worldwide cable modem subscribers reached 27 million in mid-2003, and is expected to hit 34 million by the end of the year. By 2007, In-Stat/MDR projects that there will be 68 million worldwide cable modem subscribers. By geographic region, North […]

Wayport of Austin, Texas, has scored big of late, having become the WISP behind the San Francisco Bay area’s 75 McDonald’s hotspots and partnering with Sprint as the telco rolls out support for Wi-Fi in all of Wayport’s many locations in hotels, airports, and some convention centers. But some say that just offering Internet connections […]

U.S. and U.K. trade officials have approved 3Com’s request to share technologies with Huawei Technologies as part of a joint venture to be based in China. “The 3Com-Huawei joint venture is now one major step closer to being fully operational as planned,” said Mark Michael, 3Com’s general counsel. 3Com, a Marlborough, Mass.-based firm with significant […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) said Wednesday he will seek to amend the current spam bill pending before the Senate to include requiring the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a Do Not Spam list comparable to the FTC’s popular Do Not Call registry. Schumer has introduced legislation calling for the Do Not […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is detailing its telemarketing fraud efforts with a Web site summarizing the status of 42 cases since the beginning of this year. The site also contains a list of cases involving telemarketing that have had developments since Oct. 1. with links to press releases concerning each of the cases. The […]

Toshiba is turning its recently-introduced Satellite P25 notebook into a wireless entertainment center. The company on Monday unveiled a new version of the 17-inch laptop that uses Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition and adds a new DVD multi-drive that lets users burn both DVDs and CDs. The new Satellite P25-S607 notebook is similar to […]

Sprint has signed a $4.5 million contract to provide business voice and data services to document management specialist Oce . The three-year deal includes toll-free long distance, switched and dedicated voice services, calling cards, ISDN , manageed network services, frame relay and Internet protocol services. The two companies have had a working relationship for about […]