FRAMINGHAM (03/03/2004) - he Port of Pittsburgh Commission is seeking a software company to develop, integrate and install software and related hardware for a navigation system that would make it easier for towboat pilots to enter river locks in bad weather.
Despite a fourth-quarter surge in job cuts in the telecommunications sector, high-tech job cuts declined last year to 228,325. That figure was 51% lower than the 468,161 cuts announced in 2002 by technology companies, which include computer, telecommunications, electronics and e-commerce firms, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
AT&T Worldnet Service, AT&T Corp.’s Internet service provider, is warning customers that they may have been targeted by an email scam designed to capture their credit card information.
Online holiday shoppers spent a record $US18.5 billion this holiday season, excluding travel, up 35% from the $13.7 billion spent during the 2002 holiday season, according to an eSpending report by Goldman Sachs & Co, Harris Interactive and Nielsen/NetRatings.
FRAMINGHAM (01/07/2004) - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF) announced this week that it's now making information on track maintenance projects available to customers online.
FRAMINGHAM (12/31/2003) - For the first time in 115 years, the venerable Tournament of Roses Parade is using advanced data-tracking technology to manage parade activities and track assignments for more than 900 volunteers.
FRAMINGHAM (12/31/2003) - The CEO of VoteHere Inc., a developer of secure electronic voting technology confirmed yesterday that a hacker broke into its corporate network in October and accessed internal documents.
FRAMINGHAM (12/19/2003) - One of the nation's largest home shopping networks, ShopNBC, has selected IBM Corp.'s high-end Unix eServer p690s to run its entire retail operation and to help the company respond to the demands of the holiday shopping season, the companies announced Friday.
FRAMINGHAM (12/02/2003) - Although planned job cuts dropped by 42 percent, from a 12-month high of 171,874 in October to 99,452 in November, the telecommunications industry was hit hard, with 18,183 cuts, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
FRAMINGHAM (11/21/2003) - IBM Corp. is cutting approximately 200 jobs in its software unit to eliminate overlapping positions and streamline operations.
FRAMINGHAM (11/17/2003) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said it will discontinue eBillPay, its online bill-paying service, as of April 4, 2004. In a filing with the Postal Rate Commission on Friday, Nicholas Barranca, the Postal Service's vice president for product development, said the USPS won't renew its contract for the service with CheckFree Corp. when it expires.
FRAMINGHAM (11/14/2003) - Sprint Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have joined forces to sell the infrastructure needed to improve communication between automakers and auto dealers, the two companies announced this week.
Dell on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $US677 million, or 26 cents per share. That's up 21% from the $561 million, or 21 cents per share, in earnings the company reported in the same quarter last year.
FRAMINGHAM (11/05/2003) - Some visitors to Web sites hosted by Interland Inc. are still feeling the effects of an Aug. 28 security breach that allowed their systems to be infected with malicious code.
FRAMINGHAM (10/29/2003) - Because of the wildfires raging in Southern California, Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) contractor Electronic Data Systems Corp. temporarily transferred help desk services from its facility in San Diego to a Norfolk, Va., help desk.