Clint Boulton

HP Monday unmasked the latest iteration of its inherited AlphaServer line, which includes the most powerful machine of the former Compaq family to date. The new Marvel family of AlphaServers, most of which are already shipping, are packed with the new EV7 Alpha processor, according to John Bennett, AlphaServer Marketing Director of HP Business Critical […]

Looking to keep ahead of the curve in the software-as-a-service sector, Oracle Friday took the lid off of its new portal enhancements for Oracle9i Application Server, which are geared to integrate data from multiple data sources including Web Services, spreadsheets and Web sites. The features, dubbed OmniPortlet and Web Clipping by the Redwood Shores, Calif. […]

HP Wednesday said it will introduce new storage consolidation and business continuity hardware and software to make data storage and disruption recovery easier and less expensive. The Palo Alto, Calif. firm, which will make the announcement official at the HP ENSA@Work conference in Amsterdam next Tuesday, said the new products are part of HP’s Enterprise […]

Thanks in part to the success of Houston Rockets’ 7-foot-5-inch Chinese center Yao Ming, the official Web site for the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced Wednesday that it has launched a Chinese language site. NBA.com launched the destination, which features most of the characteristics of the league’s other sites, including audio, statistics and text content. […]

Looking to help high-end handheld gadgets better adapt to the way video games and other graphics-oriented software are displayed, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday recommended Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG profiles be anointed standards. SVG is an open file format that enables two-dimensional images to be displayed in XML pages […]

In the interest of luring prospective companies looking to boost the speed and efficiency of their data centers, Cisco Systems Tuesday added two switching appliances to its content networking family. The San Jose firm introduced the Cisco GSS 4480 Global Site Selector, an appliance that balances Web traffic across distributed data centers and the Cisco […]

Microsoft late Friday agreed to pay up to $1.1 billion to settle class-action lawsuits brought by California businesses and consumers who claimed the company had overcharged for software. The Redmond, Wash. software concern, who admitted doing no wrongdoing in the case, said the settlement will be paid out to up to 13 million California businesses […]

Microsoft continued its juggling act over the naming of one of its most ballyhooed brands this week when it said it was eschewing the .NET name for its pending Windows server in favor of the moniker, Windows Server 2003. The Redmond, Wash. software giant, which has delayed the new Windows server several times, pledged to […]

Interactive telelvision specialist OpenTV late Thursday secured two motions for summary judgment in its patent litigation with rival Liberate Technologies from a district court. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California tossed out Liberate’s claim that OpenTV induced infringement of a Liberate patent. The court also dismissed Liberate’s defense to OpenTV’s claims […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday finished a specification of an API for manipulating HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents and data through a programming language. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML has been issued as a W3C Recommendation, meaning the group favors its passage. The organization said DOM Level 2 HTML makes scripting […]

A cadre of leading IT vendors working to promote Web services interoperability has published a Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification to make Internet messaging more reliable. The working draft, co-authored by Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sonic Software and Sun Microsystems, calls for WS-Reliability to be an open spec that guarantees message ordering, message delivery and […]

IBM made its first on-demand computing play of the new year Thursday when it extended its vaunted ubiquitous computing services to supercomputing. As with many of its on-demand endeavors, Big Blue is offering customers the option of scaling software requirements out as much as needed, but without the fixed costs associated with most software licensing […]