Clint Boulton

In a blow for chipmaker Intel , the California Supreme Court Monday found that senders of spam e-mails cannot be sued under state law forbidding property trespass. The 4 to 3 ruling reversed a lower court injunction preventing former Intel engineer Ken Hamidi from sending e-mails critical of Intel to thousands of its employees. Santa […]

As expected, database software specialist Oracle received a request for additional information from the U.S. Justice Department on its intent to merge with applications vendor PeopleSoft for $6.3 billion. The DOJ made the request Monday afternoon in a move that had been widely anticipated by legal experts who felt that Oracle’s hostile bid to purchase […]

Veritas Software Monday closed one of its most significant acquisitions ever Monday, cementing its transformation as a utility computing provider with its purchase of Precise Software Solutions . The Mountain View, Calif. maker of storage software paid approximately $609 million, consisting of about $400 million in cash and 7.4 million shares of common stock for […]

With many software companies turning toward the notion of the real-time enterprise — that is, conducting business processes on the fly — a fairly new niche of intuitive applications is gaining traction under the moniker business activity monitoring (BAM). On Monday, Celequest launched as the latest venture from Diaz Nesamoney, who co-founded business intelligence software […]

HP Monday upgraded its Integrity line of servers with the new Intel Intanium 2 chips, code-named Madison, shoring up what they believe is a fine balance between offering high-performance computing at reasonable prices in a soft economy. The Palo Alto, Calif. company announced the upgrade concurrently with Intel’s Madison release. Not to be outdone, rival […]

As the Oracle/PeopleSoft war of words and allegations wears on, Monday is the deadline for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to request a secondary request for information from Oracle , which is seriously pursuing a hostile merger with PeopleSoft for an estimated $6.3 billion. This past week has been […]

IBM Monday will unveil a slew of new xSeries servers to hail the arrival of the long-anticipated “Madison” Itanium 2 chips from Intel . The Armonk, N.Y. giant’s prize in the lot is the eServer xSeries 445, a server based on the company’s second generation of its vaunted Enterprise X-Architecture (EXA) technology that can scale […]

Database software specialist Oracle Wednesday continued to spread the word of Linux, and its support for the open source operating system, by backing it up with a new software tool to help companies migrate their existing Oracle E-Business Suite applications to Linux. The move appears designed to signal that the company is not letting its […]

NEW YORK — IBM is moving aggressively to court new customers in the small to medium-sized business market with “express” packages of software, hardware, services, integrated platforms and financing. During a press briefing Wednesday, IBM executives from across the tech giant’s major divisions outlined the offerings, which are scaled down, or express, versions of some […]

Trying to ease up a bit in the hope that PeopleSoft’s board will finally agree to meet about its $6.3 billion buyout bid, software maker Oracle has waived its objection to PeopleSoft’s altered merger plans with J.D. Edwards. Redwood Shores, Calif.’s Oracle had originally objected to PeopleSoft’s move to augment its own offer for Denver’s […]

A group looking to bridge the chasm between speech technologies and computing devices Tuesday said it has fused characteristics from the Scalable Vector Graphics protocol to its own protocol for adding spoken access to applications from gadgets such as personal digital assistants (PDAs). The SALT Forum presides over the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) standard, […]

Debate and uncertainty about an important specification for Web services ended Tuesday when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released SOAP Version 1.2 as a recommendation, officially making it a standard. The standard, designed to enable the exchange of XML-based information between computers in a decentralized, distributed environment, is crucial to the advancement of Web […]