News

• PacificNet Joins Forces With Bellsystem24 in China

  PacificNet Inc., a Hong Kong-based call center provider, has formed an alliance with Japanese call center giant Bellsystem24 Inc.

• CP Comunicación Wins SEAT Interactive Account

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• Correction

  The price of the Tamayo Miyares & Sherman U.S. Latino Businesses file

• Ex-NH GOP Chair Sentenced Over Phone Jamming

  The former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party was sentenced to seven months in prison for jamming Democratic telephone lines during the 2002 election.

• Senate Privacy Hearings Adjourn Before ChoicePoint, Bank of America Testimony

  A Senate committee hearing on consumer data protection and identity theft adjourned early due to seven pressing votes on the Senate floor. The earlier-than-anticipated closing gavel meant that several witnesses, including Don McGuffey, vice president of ChoicePoint Inc., and Barbara Desoer, global technology, service, and fulfillment executive for Bank of America, did not face questions from the committee.

• Ladbrokes Taps Agency.com, WWAV Rapp Collins

  Ladbrokes, a U.K. online gaming entity, has named Agency.com and WWAV Rapp Collins to develop a customer relationship management system.

• Agencies

  Acxiom Introduces International Segmentation Product

  Acxiom Corp. has launched Personicx International, a segmentation system tailored for customers outside of North America.

• List and Database News

  Direct mail and Internet survey responses are the sources for LifeSource, a new-to-market lifestyle and behavioral database product.

• Short Cuts

  Rauxa Direct, Costa Mesa, CA, has opened a new office in Seattle. The address is at 520 Pike St., Suite 1100, Seattle, WA. …

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the editor in response to Loose Cannon: Perhaps They