Keane buys Care Computer Systems
BOSTON – Keane, Inc. announced it had purchased Care Computer Systems, Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., the Boston Globe reported. Terms were not disclosed. Care Computer is a clinical and financial software developer for long-term care facilities. Keane, software services, will combine Care Computer’s operations with its own health-care solutions unit, the Globe reported.
Lycos affiliate wins Chinese Web site license
WALTHAM – The Asian affiliate of Lycos, Inc. has obtained a license from Chinese authorities to operate one of that country’s first foreign-owned Wed sites. Up to now, foreign Web site operators function only by establishing partnerships with Chinese organizations. Yahoo for example, operates a joint venture in China with a company controlled by Beijing University. The Boston Globe quoted a Lycos executive here as confirming the license agreement, but refusing to give any more information. The Globe, however, quoted a Lycos executive with its Asian affiliate in Singapore as saying that the company had been authorized to expand its Singapore operation into a full-fledged Internet portal that would eventually carry its own content and establish links to sites throughout the country.
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Speech Works wins pact with Palm unit
BOSTON – Speech Works International has won a contract to provide voice access to the Internet-based personal scheduling and contact-list service provided by AnyDay of Cambridge, a subsidiary of Palm, Inc., the Boston Globe reported. AnyDay reports three million registered users who can schedule meetings and reminders of meetings and check their address books through the Internet. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Streamline.com sells Chicago, Washington operations
WESTWOOD – Streamline.com, Inc., an online grocer, sold off two of its major properties -in Chicago and Washington, D.C. – to its rival, Peapod, Inc. for $12 million, the Boston Globe reported. Streamline will now concentrate its business, the Globe reported, in the Boston and New Jersey areas. Areas in which it already competes with Peapod. Plans to expand into Minneapolis have been dropped, the Globe reported.
Kopin names chief technology officer
TAUNTON, Mass.–(BUSINESSWIRE) -Kopin Corporation announced that Dr. Hong Choi has joined the Company in the new post of chief technology officer. Dr.Choi, 49, will be responsible for plotting Kopin’s technology roadmap, identifying new market opportunities and expanding the Company’s position as the dominant provider of gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) for wireless and broadband communications, and miniature flat panel displays for consumer electronics.
Before joining Kopin, Dr. Choi spent 17 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as a Senior Staff Member. He is renowned in the semiconductor industry for his many contributions to semiconductor materials and devices, especially in laser development, the company said.
Monster.com launches executive service
MAYNARD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE) — Monster(R).com, the leading global online careers site and flagship brand of TMP Worldwide, said it has launched ChiefMonsterSM (www.chiefmonster.com), the definitive career strategy resource for today’s senior executive. An exclusive marketplace within Monster.com, ChiefMonster allows pre-screened senior-level executives (VP-level and above) to explore a comprehensive selection of high-quality senior-level opportunities available from corporations, executive search and venture capital firms, and incubators. The service also provides real-time benchmarking and personalized career management tools and expert advice.
With ChiefMonster, executives have instant access to senior-level positions at industry-leading companies, from Internet start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Few federal Web sites meet U.S. privacy standards
Washington (Bloomberg) — The federal government doesn’t meet the standards for online privacy that it wants to apply to privately operated web sites, according to a congressional study. The General Accounting Office found that only 3 percent of the 65 federal web sites it examined met consumer protection principles proposed by the Federal Trade Commission, which include disclosure and access to a user’s own information. The study found that only 23 percent of the sites meet standards for preventing unauthorized access or loss of data. The FTC has asked Congress to enact the standards into legislation that it could apply to private sites. The Clinton administration said the study is misleading because the government has its own privacy standards for agencies.
The probe of federal web sites comes months after the FTC issued a survey of commercial web site compliance with the agency’s suggested privacy principles. Those principles include disclosing a site’s information practices, allowing consumers to choose how personal information will be collected and used, allowing consumers to view and contest the accuracy of data and taking “reasonable steps” to ensure security of data. The FTC survey found that 42 percent of the most popular sites visited, and 20 percent of a random sample of sites, implemented, at least in part, each of the four principles. The commission voted, 3-2, to recommend that Congress adopt legislation to implement its four “fair information principles.”
(Compiled from news reports and releases, print and electronic.)
