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Corporate communications ASP Vocus Inc.on Wednesday announced it has acquired the PRanywhere business line from LexisNexis, including the PressAccess media profile database. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will provide Vocus customers additional media profiles as well as providing Vocus with new customers. Existing PRanywhere users benefit from enhanced software features […]

W32/Israz-A is an email worm that spreads using its own SMTP engine. W32/Israz-A also targets the KaZaA file sharing utility. Upon execution the worm creates copies of itself in the Windows system folder with the filenames vShell.exe and Win32.exe. The worm also creates copies of itself in the Windows temp folder using the filenames Fun.exe, […]

Enhancing its search technology and adding customers, Autonomy will buy video communications software maker Virage for about $13 million cash. The latest move in the consolidating search sector extends Cambridge, U.K.-based Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform, which automatically organizes and presents data, bolstering its ability to handle non-text content. “The transaction will also […]

Con Edison Communications (CEC), a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, this week introduced PowerCall Plus, an integrated voice and data service designed for small businesses — specifically for those small businesses with 8 to 20 employees operating in New York City. The new program enables small businesses to merge voice and data services over a single, […]

Online conferencing specialist WebEx Communications has bought the assets of Presenter, a maker of software enabling users to record, edit and replay voice, video and data presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal includes all of Presenter’s technology and patents as well as customer and reseller agreements. Presenter’s iPresentation Suite software is used by […]

CRM software vendor Onyx Software Corp. on Monday unveiled CRMExpress, a package of Onyx Enterprise CRM software licenses and implementation services, available for a single fixed fee with rapid implementation. “Much of what is termed ‘affordable CRM’ is either Outlook on steroids, missing key features like customer and partner access or provides zero flexibility at […]

Microsoft stock has been climbing in morning trading Monday following a report in the Financial Times that the software giant is considering the idea of granting its shareholders a one-time, $10 billion cash dividend. Microsoft’s share price was up 3.6 percent to $27.45 in late morning trading Monday, following the Financial Times story, which cited […]

Expanding a previous working relationship, Sprint will provide call center infrastructure and support for “Bloomingdale’s By Mail” business. Specifics of the multi-year, multi-million-dollar deal were not disclosed. Bloomingdale’s parent, Federated Department Stores, has been using Sprint’s high-speed data, audio conferencing and international voice services for more than a year, a Sprint spokeswoman said. “Given our […]

Paid search and online subscriptions are the usual standouts in e-commerce growth so far in 2003, according to Deutsche Bank’s survey “Net/net: Internet Insights.” But the survey also notes that several non-traditional categories in e-commerce, such as apparel and home and garden purchases, are generating well over 70 percent of new e-commerce dollars in the […]

Procket Networks, a startup challenging Cisco and Juniper in the terabit router market, confirmed that its president and CEO has resigned “for personal reasons.” Randall J. Kruep, who also served as a director, had been with the Milpitas, Calif. since May 2001, left late last week, Procket spokesman Ben Gibson said. Kruep will stay on […]

Lexington, Mass.-based enterprise collaboration software provider Centra Software Inc. on Monday shipped the Centra 7 real-time collaboration solution. “Centra 7 represents the first definitive step made by a vendor beyond developing real-time collaboration ‘tools’ to becoming a full enterprise-class application solution,” said Leon Navickas, chairman and CEO of Centra. “The reality of today’s economic environment […]

Adding to its already cushy cash reserve, Level 3 Communications will sell $325 million worth of convertible seven-year notes over the next week — money that could be used to snap up ailing telecommunications companies. The offering is $75 million more than originally planned and should be completed by Tuesday. Under terms of the agreement, […]