Clint Boulton

EMC Corp. is again ready to do battle with the likes of Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp. and Hitachi Data Systems Inc. , as the firm Wednesday unveiled new network attached storage (NAS) hardware, software and service offerings for its Celerra File Server. The Hopkinton, Mass. concern claims the new offerings meet the needs of […]

NetRatings Inc. , which agreed to cancel its bid to buy Jupiter Media Metrix last week after the Federal Trade Commission expressed antitrust concerns, has settled on a new chief executive officer. The culmination of a skipper change that was announced in conjunction with NetRatings’ move to acquire the rival research firm, NetRatings President and […]

In a move to cut operational costs, Pumatech Inc. , a maker and provider of synchronization software for wireless gadgets, restructured Tuesday when it pared its U.S.-based engineering staff by some 80 people. Pumatech will also consolidate its business facilities located in Los Gatos, Calif., and Nashua, N.H., to existing facilities located in San Jose […]

Intel Corp. opened its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Monday with the unveiling of its first Xeon chip for two-way servers featuring Hyper-Threading technology and the Intel Netburst microarchitecture. The chips will be used in servers addressing “front-end” and general purpose needs. The Santa Clara, Calif. chipmaker’s new Xeon family is available at frequencies […]

Broadband communications firm Mpower Holding Corp. has made progress on a recapitalization plan to remove much of its long-term debt and all of its preferred stock. The Rochester, N.Y. company said Monday that it reached agreement with a committee that accounts for some 66 percent of the outstanding principal amount of its Senior Notes due […]

Hoping to stave off a pattern of abuse that it owes largely to its largesse, wireless software maker AvantGo Inc. , quietly announced this week that it is now charging for its custom channels should a person wish to host more than eight subscribers. The Hayward, Calif. firm had previously offered free the channel option […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) , which has of late been exchanging mobile processor salvos with rival Intel Corp. , unveiled plans for its AMD-8000 series of chipsets Thursday. The Sunnyvale, Calif. chipmaker said the modular AMD-8000 series, built to power future, high-performance servers, workstations and mobile PCs that require large amounts of virtual and physical […]

Richard M. Smith — the privacy expert who makes it a point to find out whether software, systems or networks are monitoring consumers — has authored a detailed report on what he called “serious privacy problems” with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player for Windows XP. Microsoft denied any foul play and said its privacy policy […]

Following a number of unit sell-offs, computer services provider Comdisco Inc. has decided to run off its Comdisco Ventures portfolio over the next three years in a move to refine its proposed plan of reorganization. With that news, the Rosemont, Ill. firm also said President and Chief Operating Officer Michael A. Fazio has left the […]

Less than a week after Microsoft Corp. ushered in the all-important Visual Studio parcel of its .NET framework, VeriSign Inc. — the Mountain View, Calif. king of the hill in digital trust services — late Tuesday introduced its framework for safeguarding such Web Services. VeriSign said its new, open Digital Trust Services model provides seamless […]

Like many of their competitors, rivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. demonstrated their latest mobile services and applications progress at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France Tuesday. Both will show distinctly different offerings, however. The Palo Alto, Calif. networking giant has spruced up its wireless offerings and will show them off at their conference […]

The server market, especially when it involves IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. , is particularly cutthroat. No greater evidence of that was shown than Sun’s move Friday to trigger a series of programs to steal customers and market share from Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM. Dubbed “Project Blue-Away,” the “competitive replacement program” strategy is aimed at […]