Christine Gordon

Napster is said to be in talks with Microsoft about using the software giant’s technology to help build “a secure, copyright-friendly version of its online song-swapping service.” According to a report filed by the online version of the LA Times, Napster, which is struggling to stay afloat amid restrictions imposed by the courts and the […]

Online auction site eBay Friday launched a service that allows its sellers to advertise items in a dedicated section of several newspaper classifieds. The new service to sellers is currently offered in the Star Tribune, a daily newspaper serving the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area, and will also launch in the Florida’s St. Petersburg […]

Proxim plans to demonstrate a HomeRF upgrade that operates ten times as fast at next week’s N+I and Connections 2001 Las Vegas Convention Center event. The technology, which is based on the recently ratified HomeRF 2.0 standard for broadband and multimedia, allows data to be transferred at 10 million bits per second, or 10 times […]

Business to business software company VerticalNet, Inc. today has formed an outsourcing alliance with IT consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. and was promptly rewarded by investors. The duo are expected to tap the discrete manufacturing and industrial business sectors with combined IT services. In afternoon going, shares in VerticalNet were trading at $3.23, up $1.17 […]

Unisys confirmed today that Compaq Computer Corp. has rejected selling its 32 Intel Corp. processor CMP computers, ES7000. Compaq began shipping the Unisys Cellular Multiprocessing (CMP) server under the Proliant ML770 name earlier this year. But the company said corporate clients favored running data centers that operated off of eight-processor systems. Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys […]

Compaq Computer Corp. and Starbucks Coffee Co. today announced a five-year, $100 million deal in which Compaq will equip the Seattle-based coffee shop chain’s customers with wireless Internet access. In a mid-morning conference call, Houston-based Compaq said it would supply Starbucks with iPAQ handheld computers and other equipment to give customers high-speed, wireless Internet access […]

Microsoft Corp. is expected to unveil the next steps in its extensible and interoperable operations management services for its server operating systems and server-based applications next week. The Redmond-Wash.-based company will reveal its management strategies at a telecommunications and networking event, NetWorld+Interop 2001 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The event is being presented by […]

In a five-year strategic alliance with Qwest Communications International Inc., Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would offer its MSN Internet access and services over the high-speed Internet network provided by the communications giant. For the past two years, companies have either looked within or pitched competitors with plans to expand their high-speed access and […]

Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday it would release drawing and diagramming software product Microsoft Visio 2002 — the first upgrade since the software giant purchased the product’s original manufacturer, Visio Corp. in September 1999. In March 2001, when Microsoft first released a beta version of the product — an updated version of Visio’s earlier attempt, with […]

3Com confirmed Wednesday that it would buy back its Audrey television-styled Web connectivity appliances. A spokesperson for the company confirmed 3Com’s decision to buy back any Audrey browser purchased from its Web site for $499 a pop, the asking price for the unit. Users can take advantage of the offer through June 1, 2001. The […]

Hard on the heels of TheGlobe.com’s delisting from The Nasdaq Stock Market, women’s portal iVillage Inc. has received a compliance notice warning it of the same fate. In the notice, Nasdaq informed iVillage that its common stock had failed to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days as required by […]

Microsoft Corp. continued to make a play online Tuesday for the B2B software market. This time the Redmond, Wash. company will tap a hesitant supplier base — one that is wary to hazard possible discounted deals online — through a strategic alliance with e-commerce company Commerce One Inc. In the last few months, Microsoft has […]