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By Erin Joyce Creating the e-mail marketing equivalent of the “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval is about more than building “best practices” in a developing industry, e-mail marketing officials say. The new “Trusted Sender” seal, a beta program launched by privacy advocacy groups and marketing companies this week, should help opt-in marketers get their e-mail […]

Onyx Software , the Bellevue, Wash. provider of customer relationship management (CRM) applications, Tuesday announced financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2001. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2001 was $19.2 million, compared to $35.7 million in 2000. Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2001 was $10.1 million, or $0.23 […]

Enhancing its offerings for the semiconductor and IT manufacturers, MKS Instruments , of North Andover, Mass., will buy ENI, of Rochester, N.Y., for $295 million in stock. ENI, a division of Emerson Electric , supplies radio frequency and direct current plasma power supplies, networks and instrumentation to the semiconductor and thin-film processing industries. For the […]

Dems, GOP Come Together on Rich Media Calls from President Bush and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) for bi-partisan action were answered sooner than many probably expected, with both parties tapping rich media e-mail as a way to get their messages out to supporters after Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Both parties tapped […]

Personal investment site The Motley Fool has become the latest former high flying free content provider to begin charging for some of its material. Beginning in mid-February, the Alexandria, Va.-based company will charge $4.95 a month for access to its popular bulletin boards, where members express their support or concern about publicly traded stocks. People […]

Provant , a Boston maker of Web-based training software and services, has received an unsolicited proposal from the Institute for International Research. “The board of Provant will evaluate the proposal and respond in due course,” the company said in a statement. Terms of IIR’s bid were not disclosed. IIR is the world’s largest conference company, […]

StorageNetworks said EDS will use its software to run an internal data storage system. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Waltham, Mass.-based StorageNetworks will provide primary and backup systems to Plano, Texas-based EDS as it enhances its data storage framework for managing its vast client requirements. “EDS is one of the world’s leading […]

IBM has appointed Bell Microproducts, Ingram Micro Inc. and Tech Data Corporation as high volume distributors of select IBM storage products to the small and medium-size business (SMB) market. “As demand to harness and maintain data more efficiently increases, backup and storage technologies will play an even greater role in small and medium size organizations,” […]

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced this week that QLogic Corporation’s line of SANbox2 switches and 2Gb SANblade Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs)have have achieved certified interoperability with FalconStor’s IPStor storage management software. “The end-to-end 2Gb infrastructure that QLogic offers is the perfect platform to make storage virtualization a reality in the marketplace,” said Joseph Kimpler, […]

PeopleSoft, Inc. the Pleasanton, Calif.-based ASP, yesterday announced plans for the global expansion of PeopleSoft eCenter, its application hosting solution, and that it has selected Hewlett-Packard Company to provide the technical operations, infrastructure and services to aid this growth. Building on its success in North America, PeopleSoft says it has chosen HP Services to manage […]

Passkey, a Quincy, Mass., application service provider for the hotel operators, has named Thomas M. Walker, a 16-year hospitality industry vet, as vice president of alliances. He will be responsible for enhancing existing Passkey alliances and forging new ones. Walker will also head Passkey’s business consulting services group that looks for ways to save clients […]

Frontera Corp., the Los Angeles, Calif,-based managed services provider for Internet operations, today announced an agreement with AT&T, to host Frontera’s customers. Hosting services will be provided at AT&T’s new 290,000 square foot Internet Data Center (IDC) facility in Hawthorne, Calif. which will offer Frontera’s clients direct high-speed access to AT&T’s OC192 Global IP network. […]