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Integration software company webMethods, Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Hitachi Ltd. to allow Hitachi Ltd. and Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. to provide integration solutions to the Hitachi Group, as well as other global Japanese companies headquartered in Japan. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hitachi delivers a wide range of enterprise […]

ManagedOps, a provider of managed operations application outsourcing services for mid-size customers, has acquired the customer contracts of Vobix Corp., a Louisville, KY-based subsidiary of Fairfax, Va.-based ManTech International Corp. . The agreement calls for migrating Vobix customers to the managed operations platform by mid- May. The terms of the transaction were not released. The […]

The dramatic price collapse caused by the infamous “bandwidth glut” may be nearing an end, according to a new report by research group TeleGeography. The new report, “Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002,” confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth far exceeds actual needs. But with prices already at or even below costs, however, it seems unlikely that […]

Bankrupt backbone carrier PSINet Inc. has entered into a $9.5 million definitive share purchase agreement for the sale of PSINet Europe B.V. and its subsidiaries to a group of investors led by Israel Corporation, a publicly held corporation, and ClearBlue Technologies Holdings Ltd. Because the all cash transaction was structured as a stock purchase, the […]

WASHINGTON — While senators and their aides, witnesses with their lawyers and lieges in tow and the media wedged into a cramped hearing room on the second floor of the Senate Dirkson Office Building Tuesday for a subcommittee hearing on the proposed AT&T Broadband-Comcast Corp. merger, across the street in the spacious fifth floor meeting […]

WASHINGTON — Comcast Corp. President Brian L. Roberts declined Tuesday to legally commit to open access for independent service providers (ISPs) in the proposed merger between AT&T Broadband and Comcast Corp. Testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Roberts said “that’s absolutely our intention,” but stopped short of agreeing to the provisions for open access […]

Integration software developer webMethods, Inc. has issued an outline to plan and deploy Web services to solve business problems within the financial services industry. In a recently released white paper, “Enterprise Web Services in the Financial Services Industry: Driving New Integration Solutions,” the Fairfax, Va.-based webMethods presents six scenarios utilizing Web services spanning the four […]

Momentum is gaining in Congress to indefinitely delay the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) June 19 spectrum auction of airwaves currently used by television broadcasters. The FCC has already delayed the auction five times and is under a legal mandate to sell airwaves used by channels 60-69 by Sept. 30. Earlier this month, the Cellular Telecommunications […]

Sen. Ernest Hollings (D.-S.C.) introduced legislation Thursday aimed at beefing up online privacy for consumers that would require online businesses to get user permission to disclose certain information. The bill calls for users to “opt-in” before allowing sites to share with third parties sensitive information such as political or religious beliefs, credit card information or […]

The Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to more than 50 companies it claims is deceptively selling products over the Internet that purport to save energy. While most of the warnings were targeted at marketers of automotive gadgets and additives, additional warnings addressed Internet marketers of purported energy-saving products for the home. The letters […]

The Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of the antitrust waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for Ciena Corp.’s proposed acquisition of ONI Systems . In February, the Linthicum, Md.-based Ciena, a builder of optical networking equipment, said it was acquiring ONI, which markets and sells optical networking equipment specifically designed to address bandwidth […]

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the federal virtual child pornography law is a violation of free speech rights. The law made it crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison to produce or sell computer-generated images of children engaged in sexual acts. Possession of such images carried a maximum prison term of five years. […]