Clint Boulton

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. continued its strategy of applying mainframe-like architecture to its machines with the revelation Monday of “Summit,” the latest member of the company’s eServer line. Slated to ship this December, the eServer x360 is a compact rack server powered by Intel Corp.’s Xeon processor, MP, also known as “Foster”. The server will […]

It’s almost like going back to the drawing board, but not quite; it’s more akin to rewriting what’s on it. Intel Corp. continued its push for faster, cooler and altogether more efficient processors Monday with the release of a chip that banishes performance limits brought on by heat and power consumption. The leading chip manufacturer […]

Tired of deleting piece after piece of pornographic mail that floods your inbox on a daily basis at work? After all, it seems you don’t even have to click on a pornographic link to be battered by naked images, lascivious come-hithers and racy language — not to mention the fact that many such links are […]

Research In Motion Ltd. — the manufacturer of the popular Blackberry wireless two-way pager — Wednesday acknowledged the fact that Virginia-based holding firm NTP Inc. has filed a complaint alleging patent infringement in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. RIM indicated in a public statement that they only became aware of […]

A group of hackers calling themselves “ingreslock 1524,” busted into New York-based Playboy.com and e-mailed customers their names, credit card numbers and expiration dates last weekend. Word of the intrusions came from an e-mail message from the hacking group that was circulated to a few media organizations, including News.com and CNNfn.com. The group allegedly threatened […]

Santa Clara, Calif.’s Palm Inc. Tuesday won the rights to repurpose publishing giant HarperCollins’ “PerfectBound” line of e-books through Palm Digital Media, the e-book publishing unit it formed last March after it purchased peanutpress.com Inc. As the e-book segment of New York-based HarperCollins, PerfectBound publishes titles by such estimable authors as Geoffrey A. Moore, largely […]

Vivendi Universal Monday said it has formed a new business unit under which it will operate its music, games and educational Web sites. Based in Los Angeles, Vivendi Universal Net USA’s Web property list both consists of Vivendi’s own original properties and reads like a who’s who of firms that Vivendi has acquired in the […]

IBM Corp. Monday joined the multitude of tech firms that have vowed to help firms better batten down the network hatches since the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. when it pledged to expand existing security and technology services. The announcement comes at a time when IT security experts, pundits and politicians near and far […]

A few weeks after Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. aired an XML-based Web services specification, the two tech giants were back in the trenches to further develop their Web Yellow Pages services initiative known as the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project. This time, they enlisted Hewlett-Packard Co. and SAP to offer spruced up […]

Tokyo’s NTT DoCoMo Inc. and IBM Lotus Software Thursday said they would work together to see if it is possible to forge and sell mobile multimedia business solutions together. And they actually signed a memorandum of understanding, making their brainstorming process official. NTT DoCoMo and IBM Lotus Software said they want to hash out whether […]

In the hopes of some day returning to profitability in this sluggish market, networking software maker Novell Inc. Thursday kicked into action plans to restructure and let 1,400 people go, or 19 percent of its workforce, along the way. The Provo, Utah company, which will be left with 6,000 workers worldwide, is also in the […]

In the second such deal this week by an independent Web music firm, Listen.com Wednesday said it has forged an agreement to use music protected by New York’s The Harry Fox Agency Inc. (HFA), — the licensing subsidiary of The National Music Publishers’ Association Inc. (NMPA) — for its digital music subscription service, Rhapsody. San […]