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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conditionally approved, with certain modifications, the compliance plans of five nationwide carriers — Nextel, Sprint, Verizon and the GSM portions of AT&T Wireless and Cingular’s networks — for the timely deployment of wireless enhanced 911 (E911) services. It also said that the FCC Enforcement Bureau would be charged with […]

With all the fanfare of the fall television show debuts, America Online, Inc., is rolling out its latest version, AOL 7.0, just one day after rival Microsoft Corp. debuted its new broadband services and one day before AOL’s parent company, New York-based AOL Time Warner , announces its third quarter earnings. The Dulles, Va.-based AOL’s […]

HSS, Inc., which specializes in the development and use of software and e-commerce solutions for managing coding, reimbursement and compliance in the healthcare marketplace, has acquired Columbia, MD-based eHealthFIRST, whose primary product, Hospital INSIGHT, provides hospital and IDN customers with a Web-based means to benchmark provider performance in the areas of compliance, reimbursement and outcomes. […]

Private investment firm Bain Capital Partners, LLC has executed a letter of intent providing for an equity investment of $100 million in USinternetworking, Inc. , the beleaguered application server provider based in Annapolis, Md. Under the terms of the letter of intent, affiliates of Bain would initially invest $75 million in USi, with an additional […]

First, it changed its entire business plan from focusing on broadband services for hotels and apartment communities to businesses. Next it reinvented itself with a name change. The losses continued to mount and, now, Ardent Communications, Inc. — the former CAIS Internet, Inc. — has filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the […]

Troubled Web direct marketer Lifeminders, Inc. has rejected a rival offer from Lanham, Md.-based affinity group marketer Encore Marketing and reiterated its support for an earlier merger deal with Cross Media Marketing Corp. LifeMinders and Cross Media plan to hold their special stockholder meetings to vote on the merger on Oct. 24. By early Wednesday […]

AT&T Wireless is acquiring TeleCorp PCS in an all-stock transaction valued at $4.7 billion. AT&T Wireless will acquire the 77 percent of the Arlington, Va.-based TeleCorp it does not already own for $2.4 billion and assume $2.1 billion in net debt and approximately $221 million in preferred securities. TeleCorp owns licenses covering approximately 37 million […]

IBM and Invensys plc, are forming a worldwide strategic alliance to deliver e-business solutions that will link plant floor, sensor-based applications to enterprise information systems, customers and suppliers. The two companies will target manufacturers that produce individual products such as airplanes, automobiles, electronics and other fabricated devices. The two companies will jointly market a suite […]

One of the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) latest industry trend reports says the next 12 months will show whether the drive to diversify customers in the global market is an opportunity for all or a series of hurdles that only a few can overcome. The report is one of three trends from SIIA’s […]

In one of the first regularly scheduled federal agency meetings since Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) met Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell, declaring, “The flame of the American ideal may flicker, but it will never be extinguished. So we […]

Testifying Thursday before the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy, Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) President Harris N. Miller said telework offers important advantages to federal agencies and workers. Miller said telework makes the physical location of a job irrelevant, and pointed to examples of companies gaining productivity, saving […]

AOL Time Warner made official Tuesday night what has been speculated on and expected for weeks: the world’s largest media company is laying off approximately 1,700 employees as it struggles to meet what Wall Street analysts have repeatedly predicted are unrealistic financial targets. The company also announced a restructuring that focuses on cross-platform marketing, AOL […]