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Morgan Stanley , the New York financial services giant, has adopted new electronic payment software from Clareon, of Portland, Maine. The deal’s value was not disclosed. Morgan Stanley is also an investor in privately held Clareon. “By using Clareon’s PayMode, we include detailed remittance information with our vendor payments, helping us to cut costs internally […]

Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc. are teaming to deliver to the Java technology-enabled wireless phone with a color display for iDEN wireless networks. The i95cl features a high-contrast screen that displays up to 256 colors display with backlighting and customizable color palettes. The phone is scheduled for release this summer. The five-ounce phone includes […]

AOL Extends Overture Contract While Talks Continue Paid listings search engine Overture said it has reached an agreement with America Online to continue syndicating its listings for another month, extending a contract due to expire at the end of March. The firm said the extension, which expires April 24, will allow the two companies to […]

EYT, formerly Ernst & Young Technologies, has appointed Barry A. Culman as chief operating officer (COO) of the Chantilly, Va.-based company. As COO, Culman is responsible for day-to-day oversight of key management activities and company performance, and modification and execution of quarterly and yearly plans as needed for the direction of EYT. Culman brings more […]

Passkey, a Quincy, Mass., group reservation software application service provider, recently signed five Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) in the Mid-West and West. The new clients are Greater Columbus, Dallas, Muncie, Reno-Sparks and Sacramento. Financial terms were not disclosed. “These cities’ choice of Passkey further validates that a cross-platform protocol to effectively manage meetings and […]

Spider Man Spins a Crafty Promotional Web Among the many movie studios and fan sites harnessing the power of the Internet to promote movie releases, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment (SPDE) stepped up to the plate this week with an exclusive streaming trailer for the upcoming release of Sony Pictures Entertainment “Spider Man.” SPDE is the […]

In a move designed to strenghen the companys’s management team for an upcoming growth spurt, Web conferencing ASP PlaceWare Inc. today announced that president and CEO Barry James Folsom will become the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s chairman. (He will remain the president and CEO while the company searches to fill that position.) “As we ride […]

Hundreds of Andersen employees will take to the streets of Boston today to try and salvage their firm’s reputation in the wake of the Enron scandal. Organizers said the noontime rally in the financial district is designed to “raise awareness of the Justice Department’s unjust blanket indictment of the firm.” Ultimately, they hope to get […]

StorageTek, and LSI Logic Storage Systems have expanded their line of co-branded storage solutions with the introduction of the 14-drive D173 entry-level open systems disk subsystem. A StorageTek spokesperson said the D173 can easily be upgraded to StorageTek and LSI Logic’s co-branded D178 enterprise-level open-system disk solution, and is managed by the same SANtricity software […]

EMC plans to integrate the Brocade’sFabric Access Application Programming Interface (API) into the its WideSky storage management middleware. The companies said this will enable applications developed using EMC WideSky to manage the Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches, which allows companies to network servers with storage devices through a storage area network (SAN).

Voice over IP company Net2Phone and its software subsidiary ADIR Technologies, Inc. filed suit against networking giant Cisco Systems Tuesday, claiming the hardware company stole trade secrets and negotiated in bad faith. The joint complaint, filed in the US District Court in New Jersey, seeks both compensatory and punitive damages for “misappropriation of trade secrets, […]

In a new study released by Net Value, it stated that 336,000 visitors were found at online banking web sites in Singapore in December 2001, up 72.2 per cent compared to January 2001. Within the country, Development Bank of Singapore’s (DBS) web site was the top site in December 2001, with about 21.3 percent reach […]