Clint Boulton

French telecommunications giant Alcatel said Friday that it would cut some 20,000 workers from its staff over the next 15 months. This constitutes approximately one quarter of its workforce, according to the Associated Press. The concern would have about 60,000 employees by the end of 2003. The company would not say what areas of its […]

The legal skirmishes continue to pile up for Research in Motion (RIM), as the Canadian wireless hardware and software maker filed a fourth lawsuit against rival startup Good Technology. RIM has elevated the charges beyond concerns that Good’s technology infringred on some of its own, suing the Sunnyvale, Calif. firm and one of its vice […]

Amid the flurry of news at its own SunNetwork 2002 conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems Thursday said it has agreed to purchase data storage concern Pirus Networks for an undisclosed amount of stock. The Palo Alto, Calif. networking firm bought the Acton, Mass.-based startup with a keen eye for the startup’s switching devices and […]

In a time when tech firms find themselves challenged to make software that will work on rivals’ computer systems, storage software leader EMC Wednesday refreshed its ControlCenter family of intelligent supervision software, which makes it easier for disparate machines to communicate. Heterogeneity among storage networks has long been a goal to help customers manage systems […]

So you’re an employee in the evolutionary world of information technology for a Fortune 500 company. Youre boss gives you a project coordinating with your counterparts in France. Here’s the dilemma: while many of the engineers speak English, their e-mail systems are rigged for French, which you do not firmly grasp. The job requires you […]

In a little bit of quid pro quo, IBM and Intel Tuesday agreed to manufacture blade servers together for the enterprise marketplace. Server blades are thin cards containing microprocessors and memory that are designed for a dedicated application such as serving Web pages. Their appeal lies in the fact that they may be inserted in […]

Lindows.com — the anti-Microsoft, alternative operating system startup founded by former MP3.com head Michael Robertson — Monday teamed with Internet service provider Earthlink to offer customers dial-up Internet access for Linux-powered computers. Lindows.com insisted the importance of this news is that while such services have long been offered on Microsoft Windows computers, it has been […]

In the high risk world of high-tech, businesses and the engineers who develop new infrastructure technologies for them are forever faced with the challenges of making smaller products that conserve energy and space, while trimming costs. In enterprise computing, that is where blade servers come into play. As with many technology issues, the specter of […]

For the first time, the two major MPEG-4 standards bodies are putting their heads together for interoperability testing of the standard that is poised to propel the next generation of streaming media delivery. The Internet Streaming Media Alliance and MPEG-4 Industry Forum announced the partnership Friday at the International Broadcasting Convention 2002 in Amsterdam. The […]

Looking to fuel the datacenters of businesses, server blade pioneer Egenera Inc. Thursday unveiled the latest iteration of its processing blade to coincide with Intel’s new Xeon 2.80 GHz chip. Egenera’s embrace of Intel’s new Xeon 2.80 reaffirms their partnership. Most server blade vendors are leaning on Intel to make the low-power, cooler processors. Launched […]

In a sign that two major storage competitors are loosening up a bit to better accommodate customers, Palo, Alto’s HP and Tokyo’s Hitachi Tuesday agreed to cross-manage each other’s storage arrays through the exchange of application programming interfaces . Under the terms of the agreement, for which financial terms were not revealed, HP now has […]

With all of the disparate pieces of Web services schema floating around in the high-tech ether, one organization has charged itself with the task of reigning them in for close-knit assembly and tighter integration. To solve this, Boston’s OASIS has formed a technical committee to facilitate distributed systems management over the Internet. The work of […]