Clint Boulton

A week after announcing its commitment to multimodal technology — which allows users to use multiple forms of input and output interchangeably in the same interaction — IBM said Wednesday that it is cooperating with Opera to create a multimodal browser based on the XHTML+Voice (X+V) specification. The browser would allow users to access Web […]

While RealNetworks did its best to upstage Microsoft Monday with the release of new digital media software, Helix, one open-source guru explained what it means for the open-source community. Meanwhile, analysts commented on RealNetworks’ ambitious play. Bruce Perens, a self-described “free software evangelist” and the senior strategist of Linux and Open Source at HP, dissected […]

A week after Microsoft trumpeted its new Windows media software, RealNetworks Monday launched a counterattack in the form of new digital media software that pipes audio and video in a range of formats — including Windows Media. The software, dubbed “Helix,” is targeted for the enterprise, specifically for businesses who wish to send audio and […]

Nearly two years have passed since the notion of Web services was thrust into the public eye as a lucrative approach to conduct electronic business over the Internet, but the concept has hardly grown stale for the analysts and business people who cover the high-tech sector. It’s just morphed a bit. Or has it? Web […]

With WorldCom swaying from a major governmental probe into its accounting practices, telecommunications firm IDT Friday detailed its $5 billion bid for the rival telco’s assets. Newark, N.J.’s IDT is gunning for WorldCom’s customers. To do so, it has devised a “stabilization plan” to help WorldCom customers transition to its own services so that they […]

When Good Technology launched last May, it had notions of fighting the entrenched Research In Motion Limited (RIM) in the wireless communications software market. Now it seems the two will be duking it out in court instead. Waterloo, Ontario’s RIM Wednesday officially filed a complaint in a U.S. district court against rival upstart Good, alleging […]

XML interoperability consortium OASIS Tuesday said it has formed a new technical committee charged with creating an international standard for the tracking of controlled materials as they move through trading processes. The OASIS Controlled Trade Markup Language (CTML) Technical Committee will allow governments, businesses and other organizations to identify trade applications, cases, licenses, and delivery […]

Researchers in IBM’s Hawthorne, N.Y. facility Monday said they have worked up new software that monitors 802.11 wireless networks and reports any security problems as soon as they are detected. A true “sniffer” product that ferrets out intrusions, the Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA) runs on desktop and laptop computers, minding wireless network security. If […]

Pausing for a moment to fire a competitive shot at rival Sun Microsystems, IBM Wednesday let the world know that it has secured its 200th customer for its z800 series, or “baby mainframe” for conducting electronics business. Sports apparel outfit Russell Corporation is the latest buyer of the entry-level mainframe, which began shipping March 29. […]

Sweden’s Ericsson Wednesday sold its semiconductor business to Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG for some $377 million. Infineon will pay $400 euros worth of stock for Ericsson Microelectronics (MIC) in a deal slated to reach fruition this summer. The deal also had the effect of making chipmaker Infineon, which had focused on making semiconductors for mobile […]

IBM Tuesday revealed another experiment from one of its many laboratories this year. Using aspects of an increasingly popular trend in the high-tech sector called nanotechnology , the Armonk, N.Y. concern has demonstrated a data storage density of a trillion bits per square inch, which is some 20 times higher than the densest magnetic storage […]

Web hosters beware. Big Blue is coming for your business. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Friday revealed one of its Web services strategies for helping customers remotely manage their intranets, extranets, and various other corporate functions, without the fuss of an offsite hosting company. In keeping with the current hot trend of services provisions from remote locations, […]