Clint Boulton

The Home Radio Frequency Working Group (HomeRF), which promoted a wireless home networking specification to compete with 802.11b (aka Wi-Fi), has disbanded. The HomeRF standard, once noted for it ability to transmit voice and data over its networks, was supported by group members Intel, Compaq, Motorola and Proxim. A Proxim spokesperson confirmed the HomeRF Working […]

In the pursuit of functional distributed directory services, OASIS Wednesday said it is working to establish a better identification scheme that can be used across domains, applications and transport protocols. To complete this task, the OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee will define a Uniform Resource Identifer (URI), more commonly known as a URL, […]

Silicon Graphics (SGI) Tuesday revealed servers and software that make it possible for the Linux operating system to tackle massive computing chores. The Mountain View, Calif. firm, known for its development of high-octane supercomputers for life sciences and government markets, unveiled its Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. The systems combine SGI’s supercomputing architecture […]

IBM and networking giant Cisco Tuesday extended their relationship to bring open storage networking products to enterprise customers. Under the terms of the agreement, which were not made public, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM and its partners will have the ability to offer customers Cisco’s MDS 9000 Family products, beginning with the Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director, […]

SINA , a San Mateo, Calif.-based information service provider for China and Chinese communities, Monday moved to acquire wireless service provider MeMeStar for $20.8 million in cash and SINA shares. SINA said the purchase will help it double its wireless revenue, add two million paying subscribers, triple its nation-wide sales force for wireless business, and […]

Less than a week after its acquisition of IBM’s hard disk drive operations closed, Hitachi wasted little time in christening the new company it formed with IBM’s wares. Tokyo’s Hitachi Monday formally announced its majority-owned Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and unveiled a few new hard drives along with it, including a one-inch Microdrive that houses […]

Tokyo’s Hitachi this week made good on its blockbuster play to acquire Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM’s hard drive business for $2.05 billion. As per the original agreement, inked in June, Hitachi paid 70 percent of the purchase price to IBM Tuesday — the day of closing. Hitachi agreed to pay the remainder to IBM over the […]

In a case of deceptive marketing, Register.com scored a victory Monday after a district court issued a stay against reseller Domain Registry of America from committing any acts likely to dupe Register.com customers into erroneously thinking the Domain Registry of America is their registrar. The issue, commonly known as “domain slamming,” had New York’s Register.com […]

IBM this week pledged to issue an open-source version of its pending Storage Tank technology to lure those inclined toward tinkering with code. Researchers at the Armonk, N.Y.-based concern’s Almaden Research Lab in San Jose are working with an undisclosed open-source group on the software and will release the code in 2003, according to published […]

A security consultant has found a few high-risk buffer overruns in RealNetworks’ Helix Universal Server 9.0 which could allow attackers to run code of their own choosing on a user’s machine. Mark Litchfield, of U.K.-based NGSSoftware, published his report Friday — one day after RealNetworks confirmed the vulnerabilities and issued new server installation binaries that […]

Months after half of the founding members of the InfiniBand Trade Association put aside infinite bandwidth because they deemed it impractical at this juncture in IT, the other half rallied around the once ballyhooed technology, and pledged to bring products to the fore next year. Systems vendors IBM, Sun Microsystems and Dell Thursday are the […]

Veritas Software on Thursday moved to acquire Precise Software Solutions and Jareva Technologies for $537 million in stock and $62 million in cash, respectively. Mountain View, Calif.’s Veritas made the aggressive bids to shore up its storage and performance management offerings by offering new products that will provide more value for IT managers looking to […]