Clint Boulton

Emboldened by consumers’ desire for more control over broadcast programming, the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday agreed to work with the TV-Anytime Forum to hash out digital identity requirements for the digital video recorder (DVR) market. Liberty, a consortium of companies working to preserve the identity of Internet service users, hopes the initiative with DVR […]

MySQL AB has unveiled its first clustering technology, designed to significantly improve the availability and performance of its open-source database for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). During the MySQL User’s Conference & Expo in Orlando, Fla. Wednesday, the Sweden-based company announced MySQL Cluster for e-commerce and other Web-based applications that require continuous availability. MySQL Vice […]

Oracle has put the finishing touches on its latest development environment for Java and Web services, adding a new layer geared for grid and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to make application creation easier, internetnews.com has learned. On Wednesday, Oracle plans to unveil its refreshed JDeveloper 10g development package to let developers use current SOA methodologies, which […]

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) has agreed to acquire some of the intellectual property and technology assets of IBM’s 400 series of embedded PowerPC chips for $227 million in cash. The San Diego, Calif., chipmaker, which will also acquire a Power Architecture license in the deal, said it values the PowerPC 403, 405 and 440 […]

Looking to move up the high-performance computing ladder, blade server maker Verari Systems Monday said it has acquired MPI Software Technology, for an undisclosed sum. Blade servers are thin computing devices, often powered by one processor, that slide into a larger rack chassis. They are usually used in clusters, with several in a rack. They […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has ended a three-year legal battle over digital rights management with DRM software maker InterTrust Technologies by agreeing to pay $440 million in order to license InterTrust’s patent portfolio. Microsoft, often raked over the coals for vulnerabilities in its software products, said it would benefit from the agreement because it relies on DRM […]

VERITAS Software and BEA Systems have formed a global strategic alliance that will provide BEA infrastructure software with VERITAS’ utility computing software. As part of the deal, announced Monday, the companies said they would provide integrated technology and conduct joint development, sales and marketing activities. San Jose, Calif.’s BEA is the first vendor to openly […]

After years of hashing out standards and acquiring various software bits, IBM is looking to extend its technology for Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to its massive services division, company officials told internetnews.com recently. This spring the Armonk, N.Y. company will make product and services announcements regarding its progress in tying Web services and […]

A leading storage standards body said a specification for rendering storage drives more “intelligent” to improve their management and performance has been ratified by the American National Standards Institute. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), which announced the news at the Storage Networking World Spring 2004 show in Phoenix this week, said the Object-based Storage […]

IBM and BEA Systems have proposed a marriage of the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) with Java , a merger that would allow the two languages to build more complete business process software together. BPELJ is the cousin of the BPEL, a language created by Microsoft, IBM and BEA in order to […]

After some concern in the industry about its progress, the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification was passed as an official standard by e-business standards group OASIS. OASIS Wednesday also announced the commencement of work on service-oriented architectures based on ebXML and Web services. Forged by Microsoft, IBM and several other high-tech vendors, WS-Security describes a […]

IBM updated its “T-Rex” line of mainframe computer systems Wednesday by adding a scaled down version of the original machine designed specifically for medium-sized businesses and a corresponding storage system. Geared to compete with UNIX offerings from HP and Sun Microsystems, the eServer zSeries 890 offers features from the z990 at a lower cost and […]