Clint Boulton

While many companies have seemingly cleared their decks Thursday for the hullabaloo surrounding Microsoft Corp.’s XP release, some firms are having none of it, setting aside the hype for their own products. Dallas, Texas’ i2 Technologies Inc. was one of those firms, as it rolled out a new business platform designed to improve supply chain […]

So, what do you do after you’ve created the leading digital music service provider and sold it off to the largest record company in the world? If you’re Michael Robertson, founder and former chief executive officer of what has become a Vivendi Universal subsidiary, MP3.com., you apparently focus your energy on a startup the specializes […]

One month to the day after the heralded IP storage data transmission project took flight, the gaggle of firms behind the Promontory Project said Wednesday that they have managed to transmit data at a peak throughput of 215 megabytes-per-second (mbps) and a sustained throughput of over 200mbps between Sunnyvale, Calif., and Newark, N.J. Using the […]

They’re at it again. Shades of the competitive Java wars are peeking through. This time, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are duking it out this week over the nascent, but undoubtedly lucrative Web services market at the Sun Service on Demand Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. and the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los […]

If you need a skipper to helm your cutting-edge online music subscription services, it seems logical to snatch one from the world’s foremost music network. That’s the strategy MusicNet revealed when it introduced MTV Networks alum Alan McGlade as its first chief executive officer and president to the public Tuesday. Fittingly, McGlade will oversee the […]

Data storage giant EMC and computer maker Dell have signed a five-year, multi-billion dollar partnership. Under terms of the deal, Dell becomes the leading reseller of EMC’s CLARiiON product line. CLARiiON will in turn become Dell’s standard offering for storage area networks (SAN) and high-end network-attached storage (NAS) installations. Dell, based in Austin, Texas, can […]

In a move to improve online ad campaign measurement, auditing specialist ABCi Monday pledged to create and maintain a master list of spiders and robots, which are widely acknowledged as the main culprit for inaccurate measurements, for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Why is a list important? Spiders and robots automatically search Web content for […]

San Francisco’s Macromedia Inc. continued its strong relationship with chipmaker Intel Corp. Monday at its DevCon conference in Orlando, Fla. when it said its Shockwave Player would be distributed with Intel desktop motherboards. Macromedia said its Shockwave Player is pretty ubiquitous on Web desktops and that some 270 million, or 70 percent of Internet users […]

For those that thought multi-billion-dollar technological contracts have gone by the wayside in the fetid economy, Dell Computer Corp. and EMC Corp. turned that notion on its ear Monday with the announcement of a five-year, multi-billion dollar co-branding agreement. A Dell spokesman would not release terms of the deal, in which Austin, Texas’ Dell and […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), which has managed to make itself a major player in the high-end storage sector, Monday unveiled a new software framework designed to cut costs for enterprises and save time for storage system administrators. Unveiled at the Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2001 in Orlando, Fla., HiCommand eschews multiple access points for […]

Despite reduced expectations from the Street and itself, Palo Alto, Calif.’s Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday that its Q1 revenues plunged 43 percent from the year-ago period, and posted a loss of $158 million, or 5 cents per share. First Call analysts polled had said the top U.S. Unix server seller in the country would […]

Building on a complaint filed last April, InterTrust Technologies Corp. stoked the legal fires with a few more logs Thursday by claiming Microsoft Corp. has infringed on three patents involving digital rights management (DRM) technology. Microsoft’s .NET platform and Windows XP operating system are at the heart of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based DRM firm’s charges; […]