Agilent Technologies Acquires Rights to Agilent.com Domain.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Inc., the new diversified technology company formed from the realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. of Hewlett-Packard Company, today announced that it has acquired the rights to Agilent.com, the domain previously owned by Agile Enterprise, a New Hampshire-based company. Agile Enterprise is a subsidiary of Applied Graphics Technologies (AGT AGT antiglobulin test. ) of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a provider of marketing communications printing services. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. According to Bill Hahn, senior vice president of Agilent's strategic programs, the move to the new URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. has been planned since before the company's name launch in July. "Early on in the naming process, we decided it was important to keep the name a secret until the last minute," said Hahn. "That objective inhibited our ability to openly discuss a domain-name transfer with AGT at that time. We reached agreement with AGT shortly after the name launch and have been working the past month to implement a smooth transition of Web sites for both companies. We're pleased to have completed it prior to our goal of Nov. 1, the first day that we will do business under the Agilent name." About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. itself into two fully independent companies. With 43,000 employees serving customers in more than 100 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent Technologies had net revenues of nearly $8 billion in fiscal year 1998. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.agilent-tech.com. |
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