Clint Boulton

After a couple days of promise, Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday unveiled a major collaboration with The National Hockey League in which it will officially become the sole technology partner of the professional league and NHL Players’ Association. Though financial terms were not disclosed, the technology and marketing agreement blankets all areas of the NHL’s business, […]

It may be a questionable market to start up a new venture, but when you’re Steve Wozniak, perhaps you can have a go at it. The Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Wednesday drew the curtain on a new firm geared to make wireless consumer electronics products. On the strength of $6 million in first-round funding from […]

The trend of tech infrastructure giants selling off bits and parts of their giant bodies continued Tuesday with Nortel Networks casting off some of its service commerce operation support system (OSS) business. Network communications software provider MetaSolv Inc. paid Nortel $35 million for the assets. The purchase includes software assets of Architel Systems, which was […]

Tech firms continue to batten the hatches on security and Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. and Mountain View, Calif.’s VeriSign Inc. proved no different Tuesday as the firms inked a comprehensive agreement to help ensure trusted commerce and communications over the Internet. The deal, for which financial terms have not been made public, is multi-year, and […]

Sure there is much ado about online music subscription services these days. MusicNet has launched. Pressplay has launched. And so has Listen.com’s Rhapsody. Still, one has to wonder: if we can have that for music, why can’t we have it for film? That question may have been in some technology-driven minds last week in Park […]

In a deal designed to create a great force in wireless networking, Proxim Inc. Thursday signed a agreement to merge with Western Multiplex Corp., a supplier of point-to-point wireless Ethernet bridges. The deal, pegged as a merger of equals, received unanimous approval from each firm’s board of directors. Each outstanding share of Proxim common stock […]

SmartForce — a leader in electronic learning — agreed to acquire Centra Software Wednesday for about $284 million in stock. The deal, announced after the market close concurrently with SmartForce’s earnings, effectively creates an e-learning powerhouse as Centra makes software that helps enterprise employees collaborate. Redwood City, Calif.’s SmartForce hopes to benefit from Lexington, Mass.-based […]

Seattle-based Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), Wednesday launched a pay-for premium subscription service geared for entertainment industry professionals. For a starting fee of $12.95 per month, users can access market research tools that enable them to track the popularity of the movies and actors listed in the IMDb; become privy to box-office data; and track movie […]

In a continuation of ritualistic cost-cutting measures in the tech sector, chipmaker LSI Logic Corp. Wednesday pink-slipped 1,400 people, or 20 percent of its global staff. The Milpitas, Calif. firm also vowed to restructure Tsukuba, Japan-based manufacturing operations, as well as shed its CDMA handset and DSL standard product business units. LSI Logic is also […]

Lindows.com — the alternative operating system (OS) firm created by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson — Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss a pending trademark lawsuit filed by Microsoft Corp. , defending itself against the very firm it is trying to compete with. In December, Microsoft filed a trademark suit against the firm in the U.S. […]

Oracle Corp. moved to beef up its voice portal offerings Tuesday when it agreed to pick up the assets of Indicast Corp. for an undisclosed sum. The Redwood Shores, Calif. software maker said it picked up the privately-held, San Diego-based firm to help it provide carrier and enterprise customers with voice and wireless access to […]

Computer services provider Comdisco Inc. , which found its technology services business in the middle of a bidding war between two tech firms, moved to rid itself of two more businesses Monday when it agreed to sell its Electronics and Laboratory & Scientific leasing businesses to General Electric Co. for about $655 million. Specifically, Rosemont, […]