Clint Boulton

AMD  said income for the fourth quarter will be lower than expected because of lower processor selling prices in its competition with Intel . AMD said Q4 operating income, excluding segments of and charges related to its purchase of ATI, is expected to be positive but substantially lower than in the third quarter. The chipmaker […]

SGI has agreed to offer Microsoft’s high-performance computing operating system on its cluster servers, a deal geared to boost both companies’ sales in the HPC space. SGI , trying to bounce back from bankruptcy, will offer Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 on its new Altix XE cluster systems, which are based on Intel Xeon […]

Call 2006 the year The Patent Strikes Back. Following a two-year slide of 15 percent in U.S. patent grants, inventors roared back in 2006 with a record 173,772 patent awards, indicating that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made some headway in clearing out its file cabinets and that intellectual property is on the […]

There’s no going back now; the YouTube influence has latched an iron-clad grip on the nation’s video consumers. Thanks in part to the tornado-like arrival of online video site YouTube, Internet and television are converging in 2007, marrying the world’s newest medium with the world’s most popular medium in a whirlwind courtship of new gadgets […]

The thing about working with a database is that it can never be easy enough to query, manipulate and create object data from rows and columns in the database. Oracle  has improved the creation and debugging of SQL  and PL/SQL  code in release 1.1 of SQL Developer, its graphical user interface (GUI) tool for programming […]

In its 51st year of making hard-disk drives, Hitachi  has written the first chapter in what will likely be a long saga of 1 terabyte  gadgets for storing photos, audio and video on computers. Hitachi’s Global Storage Technologies division today unveiled the Deskstar 7K1000, a 3.5-inch, serial ATA  gizmo that can sock away 1 trillion […]

Cisco Systems  started off its new year with a bang by bidding to acquire IronPort for $830 million, a premium more than eight times the company’s annual revenue run rate. Cisco will pay the premium because IronPort, the leading standalone provider in the e-mail messaging appliance market, was prepared to go public. IronPort’s machines preserve […]

Leave it to one of the most acquisitive IT companies to start 2007 off with a bang. Cisco Systems  agreed to purchase IronPort Systems, which makes appliances to quash spam and spyware, in an $830 million in cash and stock deal. The IronPort appliances and associated security software will join Cisco’s threat mitigation, policy control, […]

Compuware Corp.  this week purchased Proxima Technology for $31 million in cash to prop up its software collection. Compuware, a specialist in the market for software that manages IT operations, bought Denver-based Proxima for its Centauri product, a software platform designed to help companies get a better grip on delivering IT services. Following industry standards […]

So you’re a CIO of a large trading firm. Your head IT administrator comes to you and tells you that he doesn’t have the staff to manage alerts, security warnings and patches. Trading firms and telecommunications companies process millions of transactions on computing systems that execute thousands of different tasks. And when problems arise, or […]

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. The Web 2.0 extravaganza in 2006, with all of the blogs, wikis, mashups and social networks, redefined the way consumers exchanged information. Perhaps more importantly, the same participatory technologies sowed seeds for new enterprise opportunities in 2007. Over the next several months, analysts and […]

For each security software company that gets snapped up, another one seems to take its place. Presence Technology emerged from stealth mode this week with new software to help companies maintain accurate user and content identity data between distributed systems. The Salt Lake City startup’s PresenceID software automatically provisions password management, single sign-on security and […]