Clint Boulton

It would be sheer understatement to note that data recovery and backup systems for corporate networks have been lodged front and center in IT managers’ minds since the terror of Sept. 11, but firms whose success hinges on such sectors know that their storage products can bear some refreshing. Storage software maker VERITAS Software Corp. […]

The Federal Trade Commission continued to put the clamps on online fraud perpetrators Friday when it settled with three firms which it said were illegally using consumers’ personal financial data, such as bank balances. Under the terms of the settlement, Information Search Inc., and David Kacala of Baltimore, Victor L. Guzzetta, doing business as Smart […]

At a time when proving you are who you say you are has perhaps reached its zenith in importance, XML interoperability group OASIS Thursday said it has put together a new technical committee to focus on biometrics. Boston’s OASIS created the XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee to provide a standard XML schema for […]

Software publisher Handango Wednesday said it has inked an exclusive deal with wireless gadget maker Handspring Inc. to provide software to Treo communicator and Visor handheld users. Hurst, Texas’ Handango, which announced a similar deal with Handspring’s top rival Palm Inc. ., joined with Handspring to power two online Software Stores, one for businesses and […]

A month after a Wall Street Journal column raised concerns about its cash position, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Financial Officer Warren Jenson said he would resign later this year. Unlike many financial skippers, who have been exiting through the revolving doors of troubled dot-coms over the last two years, Jenson has guided Seattle’s Amazon.com through frequently […]

Seattle’s RealNetworks Inc. took the next step on the path to trump Microsoft Corp. in digital media software supremacy Tuesday with the Gold code release of its RealOne software. The Gold release means RealNetworks has put the finishing touches on the software code. But more interestingly, this final stroke comes with TurboPlay, which allows near-instant […]

Amid a flurry of smaller announcements from the International XBRL Conference and Steering Board meeting in Berlin, Microsoft Corp. claimed to be the first major technology company to adopt Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an XML-based framework for publishing financial results that was formalized in December 2001. As companies increasingly adopt XBRL as a unified […]

A week before industry leaders meet in Massachusetts for a workshop on the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standard, Zero-Knowledge Systems rolled out a tool that enables those responsible for maintaining corporate privacy to test and track their Web site’s compliance with P3P in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 6. The Montreal-based security and privacy software […]

Although it’s been in the midst of a hectic touring schedule for its Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Corp. showed its pursuit of other fronts Monday when it revealed that BMW’s new 7 Series features a made-for-the-car version of its Windows CE operating system. The Redmond, Wash. firm, last iterated its telematics interests in January when […]

When the major patent holders of the MPEG-4 technology recently announced its proposed licensing terms for the would-be standard, it sent shockwaves streaming throughout the digital media community. The consortium in question, MPEG LA LLC, offered what it called “fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory,” access to patents. Numerous organizations, such as the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF), the […]

If the public has learned anything about mergers and acquisitions in the past few months, it’s that they don’t necessarily all go according to plans. In some case it’s federal regulators blocking the road (see NetRatings-Jupiter Media Metrix) and in other cases, it’s dissident shareholders (see Hewlett-Packard/Compaq.) In the case of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Western Multiplex, […]

A kind of 3D version of Extensible Marking Language (XML) has come to the fore this week. The Web3D Consortium said Tuesday that it has dusted up a draft version of the X3D (Extensible 3D) standard to weave 3D graphics into applications for wireless devices, set-top boxes and gaming consoles — pretty much any computing […]