George A. Chidi Jr

Last year, IT managers and business executives told Gartner Inc. they planned to spend 8 per cent more on technology and IT services in 2001.

Satellite telecommunication company Intelsat Ltd. opened its first regional service centre in Latin America last month, announcing the opening of a customer support and sales office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dissension reverberates in the ranks of state attorneys general over settling the three-and-one-half-year-old U.S. antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., with Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly publicly saying he will not sign the settlement agreement proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Under the newly enacted Patriot Act of 2001, ISPs and network administrators may give law enforcement agents access to their networks without a warrant in order to track hacker activities.

The proposed settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) drew a mixed response Friday from observers of the antitrust lawsuit filed more than three years ago.

Comdisco Inc. formally accepted Hewlett-Packard Co.'s US$750 million offer to buy its disaster recovery services business on Wednesday, leaving a rival $825 million bid from SunGard Data Systems Inc. in the dark.

IBM Corp. announced Tuesday that it will bolster its e-business infrastructure offerings by purchasing customer relationship and supply chain management software company CrossWorlds Software Inc. for US$129 million in cash.

Network managers don't really know what kinds of service level agreements they can get from telecommunication service providers, and when they do know what they can get, they aren't terribly interested in more than a guarantee that the network will keep working, according to a study released Thursday.