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Wireless hardware and bar-code maker Symbol Technologies announced Thursday afternoon that it may be facing a fine after it received a so-called “Wells Notice” from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC has been probing the Holtsville, N.Y., company’s accounting practices, which Symbol announced in August of last year. The notice gives the company a […]

Enterprise ASP Corio Inc. today named Sierra Atlantic a Certified Corio Applications on Demand Partner, extending a previous strategic alliance between the two companies. Corio Applications on Demand is a pay-as-you-go service designed to deliver leading enterprise applications from independent software vendors. Corio and Sierra Atlantic originally formed an alliance two years ago with the […]

EMC today announced enhancements for its mid-range Clariion networked storage system aimed at helping customers bring more off-line tape-based data online. The Hopkinton, Mass., company developed the offering — which integrates Advanced Technology Attachment and fibre channel disk — for customers who still store a portion of their data on tape. Some target users include […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent to iVoice for a speech-enabled automatic telephone dialer that uses an interface with computer-based address book programs such as Microsoft’s Outlook. The patent award is the first in a series of patents pending for its speech-enabled telephony applications for the Matawan, N.J.-based iVoice. The phone […]

IBM is to take over some networking operations for BellSouth customers, in an outsourcing agreement that includes joint development of on-demand network services for the telecommunications company. The agreement, whose financial terms were not released, calls for IBM to deliver managed hosting services for BellSouth from two of its facilities that include dedicated Internet access, […]

Apptix, a Sterling, Va.-based private-label ASP, today announced that managed hosting provider Digex Inc. will deploy Apptix Exchange on Demand for Service Providers to deliver turnkey hosted business messaging and collaboration applications. Under the agreement, Beltsville, Md.-based Digex will sell hosted messaging services based on Apptix platform to enterprise customers beginning in the second quarter. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking bids for a project designed to increase the military’s high-capacity bandwidth. The project, known as the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program (GIG-BE), is expected to cost $877 million over 10 years and serve more than 90 worldwide Department of Defense sites. The DISA proposal includes specifications for […]

Online brokerage/bank E*Trade Group has named R. Jarrett Lilien as president and chief operating officer, replacing Mitchell Caplan, who left those positions to take over as CEO in January of 2003. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company also named Louis Klobuchar as chief brokerage officer and president of the company’s E*TRADE Securities division. Lilien, 41, is […]

Another day, another spate of shareholder lawsuits against Alloy , an online/offline marketer that focuses on youths in the 10-24 age group. Within the past three days, three law firms have filed suit against the New York marketing company on behalf of shareholders, alleging that it issued misleading information about its earnings picture. In addition, […]

Online application software provider DataWeb has picked up a line of rapid application software from BEA Systems in a stock and cash deal valued at over $7 million. In addition to software assets that help developers in Web shops roll out dynamic applications across their development groups quickly, the purchase nets the Seattle-based DataWeb more […]

Digital West, an Internet connectivity and hosting provider, has signed a new contract with Sockeye Networks, a maker of technology to manage network traffic. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal includes Sockeye’s recently upgraded GlobalRoute 3.0 product, which will allow Digital West to direct traffic between its four major Internet backbone providers — Qwest, […]