Clint Boulton

Irked by Walter Hewlett’s litigious action and the proxy fight he ignited months ago, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Board of Directors Monday left the company co-founder out of the mix of candidates nominated for the board. Simply, Hewlett isn’t being considered for renomination because the company feels he hasn’t played nice. In addition to setting HP in […]

Refusing to be shunted aside while Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. grab loads of attention for their Web services initiatives, IBM Corp. Thursday revealed its progress in bundling XML with its database software for data integration. Big Blue calls the technology “Xperanto” and is currently offering a demonstration of it on its database software […]

Strapped for cash and unable to come up with a transaction, sale or merger for its assets, fixed wireless broadband provider Hybrid Networks Inc. called it quits Thursday. The San Jose, Calif. firm, which made routers, management software, and modems that wireless system operators and regional telephone companies use to deliver broadband Internet access to […]

After a torrid couple of days for Sun Microsystems Inc. , news from the networking giant continued to flow out of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco Wednesday when it revealed a number of advancements in its Java Virtual Machine (VM) technology targeted for Java-based mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other on other […]

Dolby Laboratories Tuesday introduced new licensing terms for the use of audio playback regarding the evolving MPEG-4 standard, nearly two months after the MPEG LA licensing consortium sparked a furor with its proposed royalty rates for MPEG-4 video dissemination. The San Francisco company said the MPEG-4 AAC licensing program builds on its MPEG-2 AAC program […]

A couple of months after a demonstration at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City, Red Hat Inc. made good on its promise to deliver a powerful Linux operating system for business use. The Raleigh, N.C. open source software maker rolled out its Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, and is back in the Big […]

After nearly a year of intense discussions, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. and members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to secure the right to use Java in open source — a huge win for the group of developers who fought long and hard […]

While scores of firms teed off with their Web services wares at the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, chipmaker Intel Corp. tipped off the public about its “Solution Blueprints” strategy for Intel-based servers. Basically, the Santa Clara, Calif. firm and a number of software and hardware vendors are working to document applications for Intel-based […]

In its never-ending quest to lure customers to its side from rival Adobe Inc. Macromedia Inc. Monday introduced a new program to provide easier development environs for independent software vendors (ISVs) who intend to devise applications based on the San Francisco software maker’s server products. Available to Macromedia Alliance members, the new program includes flexible […]

It took four years of clandestine development, but Silicon Valley, Calif. start-up Pulsent Corp. Monday unveiled a breakthrough in video compression that will enable businesses to stream broadcast-quality video over broadband networks at 1.1 megabytes-per-second (Mbps), adding a crucial piece to the digital media distribution puzzle. Pulsent claims its technology provides a 400-percent improvement in […]

IBM Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Friday said they have accelerated a previous plan to build grid computing systems for scientific research. Specifically, the DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Armonk, N.Y. firm have two IBM supercomputers and one storage repository ready this year — before the original […]

Virus protection software firm Central Command warned of a new celebrity worm making the rounds on the Internet Friday. But it’s not another internationally known tennis player like Anna Kournikova. Nor is it a pop singer a la Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears. This time, former President Bill Clinton has been poked fun at. The […]