Clint Boulton

VeriSign Inc. made some noise Thursday when it unleashed new services to help firms construct, manage and protect online brands. To help with this, the Mountain View, Calif. concern bought 1GlobalPlace Inc., of El Segundo, Calif., and agreed to acquire NameEngine Inc., of New York City, for a total of $11 million in stock and […]

Using the phrase “adaptive infrastructure” to classify new software that promises to cope with the increasing neediness of enterprises, Compaq Computer Corp. offered the world a glimpse of new applications from its ProLiant line. The software package, called ProLiant Essentials, is free, and was designed to correspond with the company’s ProLiant ML and DL blade […]

Though best known for its optical, data and voice networking applications, Murray Hill, N.J.’s Lucent Technologies Wednesday unveiled something different; a monitoring service to protect domains from those with bad intentions. DNS ProPerformance helps mind a customer’s domain name system (DNS), a service that translates a host name to a numeric IP address, by scanning […]

In an effort to up the ante in a sector that, like many others, has seen a serious shakeout in the past year, Speedera Networks Inc. Tuesday unveiled a set of managed services poised to bolster content delivery at the CDN 2001 conference in San Jose, Calif. SpeedSuite, as it’s called, takes direct aim at […]

Redmond, Wash.’s Microsoft Corp. and Chicago-based online auction and marketplace uBid Tuesday penned a broad alliance to improve services to attract more customers to the MSN network. The deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, means that uBid, a majority-owned company of troubled incubator CMGI Inc. will be the go-to provider on MSN Auctions […]

Seattle’s RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday became the second company this week to bow its digital music subscription service Tuesday when it launched RealOne, which also happens to offer the first glimpse of how the much-ballyhooed MusicNet service will work. The announcement comes a day after Listen.com unveiled its own service, Rhapsody. But a significant difference is […]

While it didn’t garner all the hype of MusicNet or pressplay, Rhapsody, the new online music subscription service from Listen.com beat those two heavyweights — an all other comers — to the punch when it was launched Monday. San Francisco’s Listen.com, with backing from all of the Big 5 record companies, has been working for […]

IBM Corp. Monday announced progress in the development of a new type of transistor in what can only be seen as the latest salvo in a shoot-out with rival Intel Corp. over the creation of evolutionary chips geared to bolster efficiency. Like Intel’s announcement of last week, IBM claims to be changing prototypical chip architecture […]

Performing rights group Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) said this week that a U.S. District Court in New York has approved an interim license agreement for radio stations streaming content on the Internet. In short, radio stations will pay BMI 1.605 percent of the station’s streaming Internet revenue, which is the going rate for stations paying […]

The whirlwinds of streamlining continue for Santa Clara, Calif.’s Palm Inc., which trimmed 250 more workers from its staff Wednesday and outlined second quarter fiscal guidance. The leading handheld maker said it did this to better align resources for its divided Platforms and Solutions businesses. Specifically, it reduced its current work force by “approximately 250 […]

Networking concern Juniper Networks Inc. Wednesday made good on its goal to move toward next-generation networks with its revelation of IP version 6 (IPv6) capabilities across its five Net access and core router platforms and interfaces. The IPv6 protocol extends Internet growth by increasing the number of available addresses for Internet-enabled devices. Posed as a […]

Armonk, NY’s IBM Corp. a leader in developing supercomputers that run with enhanced power and speed, Wednesday revealed a new computing grid geared to improve breast cancer diagnosis and screening. Big Blue is currently working with the University of Pennsylvania on this project, which is essentially a large distributed computer that delivers computing resources as […]