Clint Boulton

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Wednesday demonstrated its experiment to put smaller, less power-consumptive components into such wireless devices as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell phones at the SuperComm 2002 show in Atlanta. Big Blue has developed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) hardware that could help device manufacturers replace current components in devices, which consume more power and […]

Motorola said Wednesday that it was reorganizing its Internet technology arm into three strategic parts to focus on individual markets. The Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, which offers digital video, voice and high-speed data software for broadband operators, will now consist of IP communications gateways, IP systems, and transmission network systems units. The IP Communications Gateway […]

San Francisco’s Plumtree Software , a fixture on the corporate portal applications scene, went public Tuesday, raising $42.5 million on 5 million shares priced at $8.50 each. Plumtree’s software bundles applications and online services into a corporate portal, giving Web users a central source for information. Goldman, Sachs & Co., JPMorgan and RBC Dain Rauscher […]

Brocade Communications Systems this week unleashed a flurry of news from the comfort of its own conference in Las Vegas. But perhaps what investors were most interested in hearing about from the San Jose, Calif. storage infrastructure provider was its fiscal guidance. This the firm readily supplied at the Brocade Conference 2002 in Las Vegas, […]

Hoping to catch the attention of businesses that want to offer powerful content delivery technologies such as video-on-demand (VoD) to remote offices, Inktomi and IBM Monday expanded their enterprise-serving partnership. Whereas the Foster City, Calif.-based Inktomi and Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM were previously known for their bundling of Big Blue’s Websphere Portal Server with Inktomi’s enterprise […]

Redwood City, Calif.’s Napster Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The move comes two weeks after the file-sharing software maker agreed to be bought by German media giant Bertelsmann for $8 million in a bizarre turnaround. That nearly didn’t happen, as the company’s CEO Konrad Hilbers and […]

Security software maker Network Associates, Inc. Friday received a patent for storing metadata on a server. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company patent number 6,393,424 for its technology, titled “Method and apparatus for using a static metadata object to reduce database accesses,” which allows for fewer accesses by a server […]

Joining the dark trend of lowering quarterly fiscal expectations, leading handheld maker Palm, Inc. Thursday said fourth-quarter revenue will be $60 million to $70 million less than previously expected. The Santa Clara, Calif. firm expects to report sales of $230 million, compared with the previously expected $290 million to $300 million. Moreover, the hardware concern […]

It’s one of those dicey, give-and-take situations. E-commerce merchants rely on customer data to customize services, while customers are reluctant to offer the honest goods. But have no fear: IBM scientists are tucked away in labs, working on new techniques to eliminate the problem of customers who offer disingenuous personal data to protect their privacy […]

It’s a full month until the second annual Interoperability Summit in Orlando, Fla., but Boston’s OASIS isn’t waiting to use that as a proving ground for its new developments. The e-business standards consortium Wednesday put the finishing touches on three committee specifications: ebXML Registry Service (RS) v2, ebXML Registry Information Model (RIM) v2 and Directory […]

The group forged to oppose Microsoft Corp.’s meant-to-be-ubiquitous Passport identification system is gaining momentum, as the Liberty Alliance Project announced five new sponsor members Wednesday. The Liberty Alliance, which hopes to release a federated network identity and authentication sharing mechanism that will interoperate with existing identification systems and network access devices this summer, welcomed an […]

Wireless software start-up Good Technology Inc. Tuesday filed suit against Research In Motion Ltd. over technology used in delivering wireless e-mail. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Good, which announced its intent to compete in the wireless software sector a few weeks ago, filed a suit that attacks RIM’s patent on single unified […]