Clint Boulton

It’s been said we are in a deep drought in terms of investment dollars for anyone, but nobody told San Diego, Calif.’s QUALCOMM Inc. that. The next-generation wireless purveyor Wednesday vowed to dole out $266 million of equity financing to Vesper, a Brazilian CDMA wireless service provider. Incidentally, QUALCOMM’s pledge comes at the same time […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Juniper Networks Inc. Monday moved to acquire privately-held Pacific Broadband Communications in a stock transaction worth about $200 million. San Jose, Calif.’s Pacific Broadband makes next-generation cable modem termination systems (CMTS), which help cable operators deliver such important IP services as Voice over IP (VoIP), high-speed cable modem access and even DVD-quality video […]

Through a new deal with radio station owner Citadel Broadcasting Co., Yahoo! will gain Web rebroadcast and online advertising rights to up to 140 radio stations. The agreement, financial terms of which were not disclosed, specifies that Yahoo! will be able to broadcast Citadel’s stations over its own Yahoo! Radio service. With the addition of […]

Chicago’s FullAudio Corp. Monday was the winner of a significant contract to provide Web services to 30 of broadcasting behemoth Clear Channel’s 1,200 stations and inked a licensing agreement with record label giant Universal Music Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but San Antonio, Texas’ Clear Channel is expected to launch the first […]

IBM Corp., which attracts a variety of major organizations for its souped up computer systems, said the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) agreed to help it expand its “Blue Gene” research project. Big Blue has also been picked by the The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to help it stay on […]

Palm Inc. Chief Executive Officer Carl Yankowski announced his resignation Thursday as the firm continues to plod on in the face of the growth-challenged handheld market. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based handheld maker also said the schism of its hardware and software business is nearly complete. Palm’s board Chairman Eric Benhamou agreed to serve in his […]

Normally fierce rivals Compaq Computer Corp. and EMC Corp. loosened up a bit Thursday when they agreed to cross license storage system application programming interfaces (APIs). The deal means each firm will work on creating storage management applications capable of managing both firms’ storage disk systems. APIs are methods by which a programmer writing an […]

With an eye toward improving the performance of notebooks and desktops, IBM Corp. Wednesday rolled out three new hard disk drive products with enhanced capabilities. Chief among the products is a low-power consumption desktop drive with a 120 gigabyte capacity that may run at 7200 RPMs, called Deskstar 120GXP. It’s designed to help desktops better […]

Cognizant of the heightened concern for network security, scores of high-tech firms have spent the past year bolstering their virtual private network (VPN) offerings. Just ask Cisco, 3Com and Nokia, to name a few. Internet visionary Jim Clark, credited with forging the likes of Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications, myCFO and Healtheon/WebMD since the Web went […]

Boston’s OASIS, an XML interoperability consortium, Tuesday revealed that its members have formed a new group to define a language for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information. The new OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) will develop the Provisioning Services Markup Language (PSML), a specification for provisioning, which is the automation of user or […]

Boston’s OASIS, an XML interoperability consortium, Tuesday revealed that its members have formed a new group to define a language for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information. The new OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) will develop the Provisioning Services Markup Language (PSML), a specification for provisioning, which is the automation of user or […]

It wasn’t the brightest way of cheating consumers out of their money, and now the owners and operators of such adult entertainment Web sites are paying for it — literally. The Federal Trade Commission Monday said it is forcing the owners and operators of such sites as Playgirl.com and Highsociety.com to refund $30 million to […]