Clint Boulton

In a strategic agreement aimed squarely at Microsoft, IBM and RealNetworks struck a deal to provide businesses provide subscription-based, on-demand digital video and audio services to their customers. Building digital media services from the ground up, which requires integration with integration with billing and other services, is labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. The joint offering, announced […]

The 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is playing host to a litany of products geared for the media-savvy customer and storage drive device makers Hitachi, Western Digital and Lexar Media lined up to introduce their latest wares. As demand for digital cameras, MP3 players, handheld computers and smartphones grows, so does the need for […]

After six months of careful consideration, Business Objects unveiled a plan to integrate its $820 million purchase of fellow business intelligence (BI) software outfit Crystal Decisions into its portfolio. The product roadmap, to be formally unveiled by company executives in a public event at the company’s San Jose, Calif.-based headquarters Thursday, demonstrates how the BI […]

After working quietly behind the scenes, BEA Systems Microsoft and TIBCO Software unveiled a schema that describes the communication of events in a Web services architecture. The three companies published the new Web services specification, WS-Eventing, Wednesday on their Web sites as a continuation of the companies’ collaboration in building a complete Web Services Architecture, […]

VERITAS Software on Wednesday moved to acquire application virtualization concern Ejascent for $59 million in cash to bolster its utility computing strategy to better compete with IBM, HP and EMC. Application virtualization software, such as Ejasent’s core UpScale product, allows IT employees to move an application from one server to another without disrupting or terminating […]

IBM Wednesday kicked off the New Year in hardware offerings by unveiling its first four-way blade servers to the market. Geared for businesses looking to consolidate infrastructure by way of on-demand environments, the IBM eServer BladeCenter HS40 is billed as an “ultra-slim,” 4-way Intel Xeon MP processor-based blade server. The product provides great density without […]

MySQL AB Tuesday said it has tweaked its database to run on HP’s HP-UX 11.i v2 operating system on the Intel Itanium 2 processor for 64-bit systems, possibly paving the way for a pairing of the most popular open-source database with a promising chip architecture. MySQL 4.0, which already supports other HP-UX platforms, IBM AIX, […]

In an effort to improve the integration of its popular Flash software for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell phones, Macromedia Tuesday said that it has lured some seasoned help from Microsoft to shepherd its mobile and devices business unit. Juha Christensen joined Macromedia as president of its mobile and devices business unit, where he […]

Business integration services provider Grand Central Communications Monday revved up its efforts to be a full integration services broker with the addition of an improved user interface, its own business process execution language and a Web services directory for its platform. The company released its Grand Central Business Services Network Release 4.0, touting it as […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America (FCPA) has grand designs for its small form factor hard drives these days, and now the subsidiary of the Japanese technology giant is pressing forward with its 2.5-inch hard drives for mobile products such as laptops and consumer electronics devices. Mike Chenery, vice president of advanced product engineering for San […]

Communications chipmaker Agere Systems has acquired Gigabit Ethernet switch provider TeraBlaze for $21 million in stock. The deal helps complete its strategy for supplying high-speed switches to equipment providers addressing small and home office (SOHO) and enterprise-grade applications. Agere offered roughly 6.92 million shares of stock in the deal, which valued the deal at about […]

Supply management software maker FreeMarkets has agreed to acquire the auction services and customer base of struggling online service provider Covisint. Financial terms of the deal were not made public. Covisint said it would transfer its customer contracts for auction services to FreeMarkets, providing Pittsburgh-based FreeMarkets additional revenue over the next three years and another […]