The R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, a major commercial printer, reduced its forecast for 2000 profits for the second time yesterday, citing rising costs and lower-than-expected sales at its direct-mail unit.
NTP Inc., of Arlington, Va., said it was the sole licensee of eight patents issued since 1995 for "a wireless mobile e-mail unit and the infrastructure necessary in the e-mail system to update the user's e-mail messages".
Cisco Systems will retain Active Voice's business that delivers electronic mail, voice and fax messages to a single Internet mailbox, and resell its voice-mail unit to former Active Voice employees for $30 million.
Mr. Street said that on Tuesday, shortly after the bugs were found, he gave one of his three BlackBerry wireless e-mail units to the police commissioner, Sylvester Johnson, who gave it to federal investigators.
His mother, who is retired, was a pharmacist in Horsham, Pa., with the mail order unit of AARP Pharmacy Services.
Merck-Medco, the independent pharmacy benefits manager and prescription mail order unit of Merck & Company, said it processed 18,000 requests for Cipro last Friday, roughly double daily demand in the months before September.
These percentages were the same for mail and unit visit responses.
A handy Greenpeace e-mail popped into my e-mail collector unit that reminded me of this: hey, Apple is a nice company to the environment!
* Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, Conn., a manufacturer of office equipment, named Hiro R. Hiranandani president of its Pitney Bowes Mailing Systems unit.
