Clint Boulton

BEA Systems Monday took the wraps off of the latest product it feels will differentiate itself from the competition — BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic. The San Jose-based application infrastructure software maker developed Liquid Data to give workers a unified view of disparate enterprise data as part of a single platform. Using XML , BEA […]

Proving that it’s not prone to taking sides where digital media is concerned, Movielink, which offers consumers movie rentals via the Internet, chose bitter rivals Microsoft and RealNetworks as technology providers. The Santa Monica, Calif., concern tabbed Microsoft’s popular Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) for secure access, as well as the Redmond, Wash. firm’s […]

The Remote Direct Memory Access Consortium (RDMA) — the group responsible for creating architectural specifications for products that combat data latency for TCP/IP networks — Wednesday said it has completed the inaugural version of its spec. The Chicago-based RDMA, working as a complementary group to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was launched in May […]

Sun Microsystems-led Java Community Process Tuesday launched the latest iteration of its program, JCP 2.5, making it easier for Java-loving developers to write to the language with its focus on open-source licensing. JCP 2.5, the first program refresh in two years, promises the participation of more contributors to help tweak and hash out new Java […]

Sun Microsystems Monday launched a refresher of its application server platform geared toward leveraging the Java language into its product line for more fluid Web services deployment. The Palo Alto, Calif. concern said Sun One Application Server 7 is J2EE 1.3 compliant and supports the Java Web Services Developer Pack to provide tools and platform […]

If it’s possible for conferences focusing on one all-important, all-encompassing technology sector to have a centralized theme, that theme would be interoperability for the Storage Networking World Fall 2002 event. The summit, running from Oct. 27-30 in Orlando, Fla., will showcase storage networking interoperability in the form of such emerging standards as CIM and Bluefin, […]

Basking in the glow of its recently reported 3rd-quarter profit news, Expedia Friday said it will expand into Asia by the end of 2003. James Vaile, vice president of Expedia Asia-Pacific, told Reuters the online travel concern plans to have operations in Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore by the end of the first quarter next […]

EMC triumphed in court Wednesday when a judge barred Cary, N.C.-basedTriangle Technology Services from using some of its copyrighted software and trade secrets related to the Hopkinton, Mass. firm’s service business. A judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a permanent injunction against Triangle for using EMC’s maintenance […]

Visa International Tuesday said it has extended its International Travel Card to China, targeting as many as 10 million outbound Chinese travelers. The International Travel Card can be purchased using cash, checks, or a credit account and are accepted at more than 29 million physical locations around the world, including more than 800,000 ATMs. Visa’s […]

Big Blue is big on self-help — for computers that is. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Monday said it has embarked on the next leg of its Autonomic Computing initiative. IBM said its new self-managing hardware, software and services will help businesses cut through the complexity of computer networks, freeing up IT staffers to focus on other […]

When Rajiv Gupta co-created e-speak for Hewlett-Packard back in the early ’90s, he knew he had a unique technology on his hands, one in which modular software boasted unparalleled flexibility in performing a variety of functions. Getting these code components to work for electronic business was another matter and e-speak, while a novel concept, morphed […]

Microsoft Corp. Friday said it has teamed with Matsushita Electric Industrial on a new technology to improve storage, arrangement and playback of digital media on CD-RW discs. Redmond, Wash.’s Microsoft and Japan’s Matsushita have created HighMAT (High-performance Media Access Technology) as a way for consumers to more conveniently transfer photo, music and video collections on […]