Clint Boulton

Acknowledging the lucrative possibilities its software holds in the enterprise, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday made its move into the project management niche for businesses with the launch of Microsoft Project 2002. The application, announced and demonstrated at the Networld+Interop 2002 in Las Vegas, marks the latest version of its project management software that was originally offered […]

Pay-per-view and video-on-demand (VoD) provider iN DEMAND said it will provide VoD content to AT&T Broadband customers. For AT&T Broadband, whom its parent is looking to sell to Comcast Corp. to create a blockbuster cable company, the pact is the fruit of its push for expanded services for its Digital Media Center. The concern said […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. pushed forward with its efforts to facilitate e-business Monday with new hardware that can create distributed content repositories to soften the impact of potential disruptions in a network. The networking firm also addressed intrusion detection. The new products, announced at Networld+Interop 2002 in Las Vegas, include the Cisco CSS 11500 Series, and […]

One handheld maker shored up its leadership front while another lost one of its top executives Thursday. Handspring Inc.’s Chief Financial Officer Bern Whitney resigned Thursday for personal reasons. Whitney’s resignation will become effective on July 1, when Handspring completes its fiscal year. In the meantime, the Mountain View, Calif. company retained executive recruiting firm […]

When IBM Corp. announced the latest member to its iSeries family Monday, it offered a sneak peek of what it had in store for its self-managing systems architecture with the inclusion of Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM), a tool that makes secure transactions possible. Thursday Big Blue took the wraps off of a slew of upgrades […]

The stars are aligning for the division of Palm Inc. into two entities. The Santa Clara, Calif. concern chose Chief Operating Officer Todd Bradley as president of its Solutions Group, where he will be expected to make sales blossom for its industry-leading handheld gadgets despite stiff competition from Handspring Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The move […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday refreshed its large line of Internet routers — devices that determine where data packets should be sent on a network — with 14 new platforms and several enhancements to its modular access umbrella. The San Jose, Calif., networking giant is packing this broad product announcement, targeted for branch offices and remote […]

Angling to bolster its already broad array of Ethernet products, Cisco Systems, Inc. Wednesday purchased privately-held Hammerhead Networks, Inc. and Navarro Networks, Inc. for a combined $258 million in stock. In the purchase of Billerica, Mass.’s Hammerhead Networks, for which it will exchange $173 million in stock, Cisco hopes Hammerhead’s software will augment its IP […]

Sony Corporation took a 1 percent stake in RealNetworks Inc. , and the companies Wednesday agreed to continue bundling each other’s technologies for Sony’s home entertainment devices. Sony will continue marrying its ATRAC3 sound compression format and OpenMG copyright protection with RealNetworks’ products, including RealPlayer and RealJukebox. In turn, Sony will continue to add the […]

Endeavoring to take a fresher market opportunity by the horns, software storage giant EMC Corp. Monday unveiled a new strategy for addressing fixed storage, which constitutes unchanging documents or images such as digital x-rays or books. Such files are incapable of being modified online and were considered too expensive to provide storage for. The Hopkinton, […]

While makers of low-end or middling servers have been busy of late, IBM Corp. climbed the ladder Monday with the release of a new 32-way server from its iSeries line, which the Armonk, N.Y. firm claims can provide more than double the processing power of the previous most powerful member of that eServer family — […]

A software company and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which granted it a broad encryption patent in February 2001, have recently come under fire by a firm who claims the patent shouldn’t have been issued in the first place. Westlake Village, Calif.’s PC Dynamics is furious that patent 6,185,681 was awarded to MAZ […]