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Stories by Linda Rosencrance

  • CSC to slash 900 jobs

    Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) became the latest IT consulting and services firm to announce cutbacks last week, saying it will eliminate 700 to 900 jobs because of revenue and earnings that are far lower than expected.

  • Not happy, Symantec

    Users are flocking to Symantec's public message board to complain about problems downloading the company's antivirus software.

  • GEAC posts $US37.2M loss

    Struggling software vendor Geac Computer has reported a fiscal second-quarter loss of $US37.2 million due to a one-two punch of weak enterprise application sales and the fact that users are taking longer to make decisions about buying its product.

  • FTC warns Santa can't wait

    The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning more than 100 US online retailers that they'd better not make holiday shipping promises they can't keep.

  • Online retailer charged with privacy violations

    The state attorney general in Missouri this week filed a lawsuit against More.com charging that the US-based online health-products retailer violated the privacy policy posted on its Web site by releasing customer data to a third-party company.

  • IBM's 'Blue Hammer' aims at Web

    In an effort to outdistance Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, its competitors in the Web server market, IBM has unveiled Blue Hammer, a system for clustering Web-based servers. Blue Hammer uses IBM's Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) to cluster as many as 16 of the company's RS/6000 S80 Unix servers, according to IBM.

  • e-tailers cut ad budgets

    A new survey of 66 North American online retailers released last week by the US-based Shop.org trade association, indicates that e-commerce companies are taking steps to cut down on their advertising costs and to fine-tune their marketing strategies as part of an increased focus on becoming profitable.

  • Online retailers cut ad budgets to trim losses

    A new survey of 66 North American online retailers released this week by the Shop.org trade association and a consulting firm indicates e-commerce companies are taking steps to cut down on their advertising costs and to fine-tune their marketing strategies as part of an increased focus on becoming profitable.

  • Global supply chain launched

    Global Logistics Technologies (G-Log) and New Meadows Venture Partners last week launched SupplyLinks, an Internet-based global supply chain network, to link customers to various transportation modes and service providers through a single platform.

  • CA names new chief

    In a major corporate realignment, Computer Associates International (CA) last week announced that founder Charles Wang is giving up his CEO job and that it plans to spin off some of its software and services businesses.

  • Online retailers hit by pricing glitches

    Pricing glitches at Staples.com and Amazon.com within the past two weeks left some customers happy but others miffed, as the firms scrambled to recover from discounts unintentionally given to some customers.

  • FedEx helps businesses online

    Hoping to attract new customers, Federal Express announced last week it will launch a service to help small-to-medium sized businesses build online stores.

  • US air control system open to threat

    The US air traffic control system may be susceptible to intrusion and malicious attacks because the Federal Aviation Administration didn't investigate dozens of foreign nationals hired to fix year 2000 computer problems, violating its own security policies, according to congressional investigators.