Clint Boulton

With the intention of getting a quick cash fix, Softbank America Tuesday pared its stake in Yahoo to 14.3 percent from 16 percent, acquiring $171 million from the sale. Softbank America’s parent, Japanese investment giant Softbank Corp., has long been trying to reduce debt and get cash to float its asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) […]

Executive reshuffling resumed this week as value chain management software maker i2 Technologies, Inc. said its Chief Executive Officer Greg Brady resigned. Chairman and Founder Sanjiv Sidhu Monday assumed the role of chief executive officer of Dallas-based i2, although Brady will remain in an advisory capacity with i2 during the transition. Separately, Tom Cooper, executive […]

In an effort to play up its newer Web Services-centric focus, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Monday said it will rebrand its software lines under the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) billing. The Palo Alto, Calif. networking systems giant, again taking on software force Microsoft Corp. in this latest applications drive, will make iPlanet, Forte, StarOffice […]

BT Cellnet, the UK concern of mobile communications operator mmO2 plc, Thursday agreed to 10-year outsourcing deal with IBM Corp. , which will help the UK business build and manage IT systems infrastructure for wireless data dispensation in voice, text and mobile Internet markets. The deal is worth some $71.83 million in its first year. […]

In a sign that some telecommunications firms are coming to dine at the MPEG-4 table, ClearStar USA has asked iVAST, Inc. to provide it with a complete set of software and systems modeled on the evolving standard. However, not everyone is a fan of MPEG-4, as New York’s On2 Technologies Inc. sent a white paper […]

It’s no secret that Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. have become increasingly locked in heated competition in the past year, matching each other (though they would say “outmatching” each other) server-for-server spanning low- to high-end appliances. There have been scoffs and rebuttals over whose benchmarks are insidious cover-ups or misrepresentations. And who can forget […]

In a precursory move to next week’s National Association of Broadcasters 2002 show, the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) Thursday said 29 MPEG-4 vendors have completed three rounds of interoperability tests for various MPEG-4-based products. While “tests” may not sound like such an exciting prospect, they really are, in this case. MPEG-4 — a schema of […]

In a move considered not so surprising by industry watchers, Microsoft Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Richard Belluzzo stepped down Thursday, triggering organizational changes for the Redmond, Wash. software giant. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, whose more fiery management style insiders said led to clashes with Belluzzo, will pick up some of Belluzzo’s duties, […]

One of the highlights set to take place at the Storage Networking World Conference in Palm Desert, Calif. this week is a series of demonstrations of a common interface for the management of multi-vendor storage networks. While this may not be the most sexy sounding news to descend on the tech landscape this week, those […]

Dell Computer Corp. Wednesday revealed at a press conference in New York City that it is getting into the server blade business, a niche that is all the rage in the hardware server sector these days. The Austin, Texas PC maker also rolled out enhanced server software to accommodate the new products and partnered with […]

IBM Corp. dipped into the consumer electronics well Tuesday when it inked a four-year, multi-million-dollar deal with a trio of Japanese entertainment appliance heavyweights to develop semiconductors based on Big Blue’s silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Sony Corp. , Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) and Toshiba Corp. have joined with IBM in a deal the firms hope […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. — who earlier Monday booted the dissenting Walter Hewlett from consideration for its board of directors — unveiled its storage virtualization strategy and a new midrange HP StorageApps sv3000 appliance. Storage virtualization describes the method of unifying storage systems into a large pool that keeps track of where information is located. With virtualization, […]