Clint Boulton

In keeping with its promise to keep the public updated on its trademark infringement defense against Microsoft Corp. , San Diego startup Lindows.com released copies of its main opposition papers before it takes on the software giant in court Feb 27. Lindows.com Founder and CEO Michael Robertson published a letter Thursday on the company’s Web […]

San Mateo, Calif.’s Virage Inc. has completed the latest rendition of its rich media server and released it to the public Wednesday. Virage Solution Server 4.0 is different from the previous three versions because it features search technology from Verity and supports multiple data formats, including images and documents. It’s geared for the enterprise, to […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) continued its momentum toward laying the foundation for Web services Wednesday when it formed two new technical committees to advance the XML Topic Maps specification for organizing, retrieving and navigating information resources. Topic maps, considered by developers and analysts to be a key knowledge management […]

For years, combatants in the heated server market have stressed the speed and power at which their latest products can render calculations. While this is no less important today, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. , is looking for other ways to differentiate itself from its competitors Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. . Big Blue has […]

In a chess move to put pressure on the firm that announced licensing fees for MPEG-4 technology, Apple Computer Corp. said it was delaying the release of QuickTime Player 6 until more reasonable royalty terms are determined. Apple previewed the latest version of its digital media software, which fully supports the MPEG-4 standard, at the […]

Lest it be pushed aside for all the attention Wi-Fi technology garners, Bluetooth continues to be supported by the likes of Broadcom Corp., who Tuesday unveiled a chip product powered by the short-wave wireless technology. The Irvine, Calif. chipmaker introduced Broadcom BCM2013, which integrates Broadcom’s Bluetooth radio together with a baseband specifically designed for the […]

Chipmaking powerhouse Intel Corp. Tuesday unveiled new microprocessors geared to power wireless gadgets such as cell phones, handhelds and telematics systems in motor vehicles. The chips are based on the Santa Clara, Calif. firm’s XScale technology and are the latest maneuvers by Intel to forge processors for small devices whose functions involve supporting large chunks […]

In a sure coup over RealNetworks Inc. , Microsoft Corp. won the right to put its Windows Media technology as the staple platform for FullAudio Corp.’s pending digital music subscription service. FullAudio will preview its music subscription service at DEMO 2002 in Phoenix this week. The Chicago-based firm plans to make available more than 70,000 […]

Thursday was chock full of lawsuit filings or announcements across the high-tech sector, including one in which the entire state of New York fireda legal bullet at security firm Network Associates for violating free speech laws. But the real fireworks may be in two patent infringement cases — InterTrust Technologies Corp. vs. Microsoft Corp. and […]

Looking to dispel what it claims are false notions about its philosophy on Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., led by President and COO Ed Zander, held a conference call early Thursday morning before its analyst conference in San Francisco to discuss its future plans for the open-source operating system. Zander did not delve into specifics much […]

A slew of technology firms leaders Thursday forged the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to facilitate to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable Web services across a variety of platforms, applications and programming languages. The group’s founders include Accenture, BEA , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Intel , Microsoft , and SAP, but it is […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. trained its competitive guns on IBM Corp., EMC Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. when it overhauled its enterprise storage offerings. Sun President Ed Zander formally launched the large undertaking at the Sun Worldwide Analyst Conference 2002 in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon. First in the Palo Alto, Calif. outfit’s software designs is Storage […]