Clint Boulton

Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday said was able to sell two 24-CPU, 900 MHz Sun Fire 6800 Midframe servers, including a storage area network (SAN) of Sun StorEdge 9960 systems to ISP giant and regular customer EarthLink . Financial terms of the sale will not be revealed, said Sun spokeswoman Liza Santos. Feeling the pressure of […]

Itching to expand its presence in a gaming market that remains immature, RealNetworks Inc. said the success of its gaming site RealArcade has paved the way for it to commit to international expansion. RealNetworks, which has been busy improving its RealOne software and striking up partnerships for it, reported at the Games Developers Conference in […]

Looking to bolster its balance sheet, embattled Homestore Tuesday agreed to sell its ConsumerInfo.com unit to Experian for $130 million in cash. The WestLake Village, Calif. real estate firm’s division provides consumers credit information online and will no doubt be used by Nottingham, U.K.’s Experian to beef up its customer relationship management (CRM) provisions. Homestore, […]

Intel Corp. Tuesday unveiled what it claimed to be the industry’s first dual processors for dense, low-power blade servers, which may yield as much as 63 percent greater performance than single processor brethren. The Santa Clara, Calif. chipmaker said the chips are Low Voltage Intel Pentium III processors that operate at 800 MHz, with memory […]

One week after VERITAS Software Corp. refreshed its data recovery software line, rival storage software maker Network Appliance said it has written its own business continuity software. Slated to be announced Tuesday, Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Network Appliance will roll out NearStore, a data backup appliance, SnapMirror software, which as one might discern handles data replication tasks, […]

Another day in court resulted in another stymie for Microsoft Corp. , when a Seattle court judge found late Friday that the Redmond, Wash. software giant could not prevent San Diego’s Lindows.com from using their name and releasing a competing operating system called LindowsOS. But that won’t prevent the company from pursuing a trademark infringement […]

RealNetworks Inc. continued its aggressive partnering moves at the CTIA Wireless 2022 conference in Orlando, Fla. Monday when it unveiled the newly-complete mobile version of its RealOne Player, which was demonstrated on Compaq Computer Corp.’s Pocket PC. Content from some 30 media providers was played on the Pocket PCs with the mini RealOne software, whose […]

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Thursday said it recommended the proposed merger between wireless networking concerns Western Multiplex Corp. and Proxim Inc. . That merger, one of equals, was proposed Jan. 17 and appeared to be progressing swimmingly until DMC Stratex Networks Inc. made its own bid for Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Western Multiplex on […]

IBM Corp. pushed forward with its latest, eServer Wednesday when it unwrapped the x440, an Intel chip-based machine that offers a “pay-as-you-need-the-power” price point in the hopes of swaying more customers to the Blue side. The x440 relies on what Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM calls a “building-block”-style called XPandonDemand, which allows customers to pay for computing […]

Not to be outdone by archrival Intel Corp. at the CeBIT conference this week, AMD moved aggressively to bolster its Athlon portfolio with the release of a trio of chips. Debuting in Hanover, Germany were the Athlon XP processor 2100+ for desktop PCs, the AMD Athlon MP processor 2000+ for servers and workstations, and the […]

Nokia proved to be quite busy at the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany Tuesday. In addition to parading new phones, Java support and multimedia messaging, the world’s No. 1 phone maker said it selected RealNetworks Inc.’s RealOne digital media player for its wireless gadgets. The terms of the alliance call for Finland’s Nokia to embed […]

Between IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. , the public hears a lot about how Linux is being used to make business run smoother without Microsoft Corp.’s tentacles all over it. But one tech giant has started touting the open source philosophy to help beyond the money-hungry influence of the business world — in research. […]