Clint Boulton

Lindows.com, the anti-Microsoft, alternative operating system startup founded by former MP3.com head Michael Robertson, continued its onslaught of partnerships Tuesday when it said its flagship OS now works with a number of HP’s printers. LindowsOS now includes support for more than 200 of the best selling HP printers, including members of the Business Inkjet, Color […]

After much speculation and debate about its status, Movielink proved it’s still committed to delivering movies to film fans over the Internet Monday by shoring up its technology infrastructure. Santa Monica, Calif.’s Movielink is the online rental service formed and fueled by five major movie studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal […]

Storage tape drive specialist Quantum Corp. late Thursday made an aggressive strategic purchase when it moved to acquire privately-held rival Benchmark Storage Innovations for about $55 million. That price is based on transaction terms which hold that Milpitas, Calif.’s Quantum will exchange 13.1 million shares of Quantum stock and $11 million in cash. Quantum had […]

It’s been a long, hard road of debates and rejiggered drafts, but the Storage Network Industry Association IP Storage Forum (SNIA IPS Forum) and its members Wednesday confidently announced that the much-ballyhooed Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standard has touched on a major milestone: the completion of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s IPS Working […]

OASIS Thursday said it has put the finishing touches on the ebXML Messaging Service Specification version 2.0 as the newest addition to the Boston-based e-business standard group’s family. Carved out by OASIS and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). The ebXML Messaging Service standard offers a secure method for exchanging […]

Users of Microsoft’s wildly popular e-mail service Hotmail have long had the frequent displeasure of punting various unwanted e-mails from their inboxes — some 8 out of every 10 e-mails messages sent to Hotmail accounts are believed to be spam. Well, Hotmail users: help is on the way. Like the Orkin army does against insect […]

While Microsoft’s and Oracle’s pricing plans have attracted much controversy and heated debate around the software industry, some competitors are seizing the opportunity to extend an olive branch to the customer community. Provo, Utah’s Novell took such steps Tuesday when it unleashed a new pricing plan that is supposed to help businesses better deliver Web […]

Open-source group Eclipse Friday said it has created an new project to support research, education and engineering initiatives geared to mesh other computing technologies with its own platform. Spearheaded by IBM , the Eclipse Fellowship Program, which funds university based research in the areas of programming languages, tools, and environments, will help in this endeavor. […]

Wind River got a boost Thursday when Intel chose its Tornado for Intelligent Network Acceleration (TINA) software into the Intel PRO/1000 T IP Storage Adapter. The announcement marks a warm embrace from the giant chipmaker for one of the Alameda, Calif. embedded systems specialist’s key products: iSCSI protocol-based TINA is used to provide network equipment […]

As evidence that Web services interests are permeating beyond major high-tech companies, data standards organizations representing health care, banking, prescription eyewear, and supply chain management (SCM) Thursday appointed representatives to the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee. Healthcare organization HL7, finance group SWIFT, eyecare concern VCA, and SCM purveyor e.centre will look to provide […]

The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (CERT/CC) Wednesday said that the previous fix it offered to thwart buffer overflows in domain name system resolver libraries may not be enough to safeguard certain software systems. CERT/CC made the amendment as a follow-up to its June 28 announcement that remote attackers could send malicious DNS responses that […]