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By Erin Joyce Online commerce may have dipped in the days after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. but not for BuyandHold.com, an online brokerage for long-term investing. The start-up, which features dollar-cost averaging accounts that can be started for as little as $25, saw a 200 percent increase in new accounts […]

Storage Computer Corporation today announced that Gary Hoffman has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. He will report to John Thonet, Chief Operating Officer (COO). Storage computer said Hoffman was previously Vice President of American Sales for Informix Software (formerly Ardent Software) in Westboro, Massachusetts. He was responsible for expanding revenue from […]

DataDirect Networks, aprovider of storage networking appliances, has announced a partnership agreement with PART’COM to make the company’s Silicon Storage Appliances more readily available to European partners and customers. The company said PART’COM is one of the premier European investment firms specializing in the sectors of telecommunications, media and Internet with over EUR 520 million […]

By Ryan Naraine New York-based Agency.com announced it would shut down its office in Portland, Org. and lay off about 200 employees in a reorganization program that includes about 130 billable consultants. Agency.com, which is headquartered a few blocks from the destroyed World Trade Center towers, said none of the 300 Manhattan-based employees would be […]

Compaq, the Houston computer giant, and Akamai Technologies , the Cambridge, Mass., content delivery specialist, have inked a vendor agreement, creating one-stop shopping for companies overhauling their IT infrastructure. Under the pact, Compaq’s services division will offer Akamai’s flagship service, EdgeSuite, to companies that are installing Web-based hardware and software. In turn, Akamai said it […]

Application-service provider (ASP) USinternetworking Inc. said it has named Brad Everett as senior vice president of regional operations. Everett will manage all of USi’s regional operations, including client implementation practice management. “This role was created in an ongoing effort to further refine USi’s superior quality of customer service by empowering our regional client-facing teams and […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced Sun HighGround Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Version 5.0. According to Sun, the new software builds on the Company’s web-based storage resource management application that provides IT managers with critical utilization, consumption and availability data about their enterprise storage. In addition to now incorporating Oracle and Sybase database storage resources, the […]

Web interaction software provider, Callbutton LLC announced today that Akamai Technologies Inc. , a provider of distributed application and content delivery services, will use Callbutton’s fully hosted Web interactive application to help increase sales. The application enables firms to interact one-on-one with potential and current online customers, as well as manage and track that process. […]

In a move designed to bring the simplicity and cost savings of Power over Ethernet to smaller wireless LAN systems, Agere Systems today announced a new, single-port model of its ORiNOCO Active Ethernet power injector line. Active Ethernet technology lets wireless access points draw their power from the same connection that carries the data. This […]

Storage Area Network solutions provider Vixel Corporation today announced that it has adopted a stock repurchase program of up to $1 million. The company said the repurchase program will begin immediately and will be made at the discretion of management as market conditions warrant and will continue through the end of 2001. “The adoption of […]

Peerless Systems Corporation , a provider of software-based embedded imaging and networking systems and storage management systems to the digital document and storage markets, today announced the sale of an extension of a block license agreement totaling $1.2 million. The new sale has been invoiced and is expected to be paid for in the current […]

Still grieving for their co-worker, a Massachusetts technology firm took steps today to shore up corporate structure shaken by last week’s terror attacks. Netegrity , of Waltham, lost CFO James Hayden in the crash of United Airlines Flight 175. Network security software maker Netegrity said it has created a special committee to manage the organization’s […]