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Qwest Communications International has launched a new promotion to scoop up Web hosting customers from Sprint, Level 3 and others who are phasing out the offering. The Denver telecom today began offering two free months of its CyberCenter service — which utilizes hosting centers in Burbank, Calif., Chicago; Denver; Sacramento, Calif.; Sterling, Va. and Tampa […]

Barry Diller’s USA Interactive on Thursday announced that it is changing its name to InterActiveCorp (IAC), effective June 23. The move comes just over a year after Diller combined the movie and cable assets into French media company Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Since then, the company has moved swiftly into all subsectors of the ecommerce field, […]

e-Commerce security software maker Lightbridge will lay off 70 people and close its Irvine, Calif., facility in a restructuring that will also see its president/COO leave next month. The moves, combined with previous office consolidation, will result in charges of $1.9 million over the next three quarters but should ultimately save the company between $7 […]

NetLedger, a San Mateo, Calif.-based ASP, today announced Sales Compensation Manager, a Web-based service designed to allow mid-sized businesses to design, track and pay sales commissions based on criteria such as quota, product quantity, service items and more. Sales Compensation Manager will be included in NetCRM and NetSuite and is designed to allow finance departments […]

In one of its largest Wi-Fi jobs yet, IBM has installed wireless systems at 600 Boys & Girls Clubs across the United States, providing Internet access for more than 200,000 children. Financial terms of the contract, which included deployments at facilities in Chicago, New York and Oakland, as well as rural areas, were not disclosed. […]

3Com today unveiled a new family of wireless networking products — access points, gateways and PC cards — for the small or home office and hotspot locations. The company said the gear, unveiled today at the CeBIT America trade show in New York, meets 802.11g standards (which are five times faster than the current 802.11b […]

Internet advertising powerhouse DoubleClick on Tuesday announced plans to issue a $135 million debt offering to service other debt, and said its second quarter results would come in at the higher end of earlier guidance. The New York-based DoubleClick, which hit profitability in the previous quarter, now expects Q2 revenues to be between $61 million […]

West Virginia’s decision to settle its appeal of Microsoft federal antitrust settlement leaves Massachusetts as the last holdout. On Monday, West Virginia agreed to accept $21 million from the Redmond, Wash., software giant — most of which will come in the form of vouchers for consumers and businesses to purchase hardware and software from any […]

Portal companies, looking for a pipeline of new customers for paid broadband services, are racing to partner with Internet service providers . The latest example is Microsoft , which has struck a five-year deal to supply content from its MSN property to Bell Canada for a co-branded portal beginning next spring. The companies will share […]

An Internet worm reported Monday by antivirus software vendor Sophos attempts to email itself to addresses taken from a variety of sources on the local machine. W32/Nofer-A also will try to infect executable files. W32/Nofer-A will copy itself to svchost.exe and to a randomly named executable file in the Windows folder. It creates a registry […]

Network equipment maker Enterasys Networks has unveiled two new router platforms for corporate regional offices and data centers featuring beefed-up security. The XSR-3000 and XSR-4000 integrate wide-area network , virtual private networking and firewall technologies. Test users include Franciscan University, one of the Andover, Mass., company’s stable of higher-education customers. The XSR-3000 and XSR-4000, along […]