Clint Boulton

Handspring Inc., which just two days ago wowed the public with its new Treo line of phone/personal digital assistant gadgets, Wednesday said sales slumped 13 percent to $61.4 million in its 2002 first quarter compared with a year ago. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm reported a fully diluted earnings per share of 22 cents without […]

Ariba Inc., a leading business-to-business software maker, Wednesday installed Robert Calderoni as president and chief executive officer. Calderoni is filling in for Ariba Founder Keith Krach, who was playing the role of interim CEO since Larry Mueller departed in July. In true revolving-door tradition, Mueller had only been CEO at Ariba for three months. Krach […]

In its ongoing efforts to tinker with characteristics of the important Extensible Markup Language, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday said it has issued the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 — an XML-based language that spells how XML documents will be formatted — as a recommendation. The specification builds on, and works together with […]

Stressing security, content delivery specialist Speedera Networks Inc. launched a refresh of its streaming media service, which carried with it a strong endorsement from Amazon.com Inc.’s digital group. The Santa Clara, Calif. firm unveiled Secure Streaming service, which lets content providers safely offer streaming content to users across the Web with less risk that the […]

IBM Corp. Monday scored a contract from the king of retailers when Wal-Mart chose Big Blue’s Enterprise Storage Servers and eServer z900 mainframes as the backbone of its worldwide data center infrastructure. The play is significant in that the data center will serve more than 4,000 Wal-Mart stores, Supercenters and SAM’s Club facilities and millions […]

Following a diet that featured the absorption of services and infrastructures of diverse technology companies, divine inc. went live with the first offering from its newly-honed strategy. The Chicago-based incubator turned enterprise service provider pulled the cover off of its Enterprise Content Center, a suite of e-business content and management tools born to serve intranets, […]

Less than two weeks after it designated its Austin, Texas research lab as the Low-Power Computing Research Center, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. unveiled the first installment of a low-power chip family geared to conserve energy. And like Intel Corp.’s Pentium III processor-M at 1.2 GHz — which the company claims is the fastest mobile processor […]

Despite speculations of a possible acquisition looming over its rather large head, Nortel Networks soldiers on in the face of an economic climate that is anything but kind to telecommunications infrastructure providers. Thursday proved no different as the battered Canadian firm pledged to work with Boston-based SpeechWorks International Inc. to deliver speech applications to enterprise […]

Following five months of beta testing over 2 million game-loving users, RealNetworks Inc. Wednesday made the gold release of its Web game service, RealArcade. RealNetworks said the new and improved RealArcade features a more refined user interface, better performance, as well as a new streaming game service. But the real perk is that RealNetworks will […]

In part of its effort to cull the best technologies and resources for its pending .NET Web services initiative, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday agreed to pump $51 million into Beverly, Mass.-based peer-to-peer software firm Groove Networks Inc. Microsoft’s desire to grasp Groove’s technology for .NET, a Web services stategy designed to allow application to application collaboration […]

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Corp. Tuesday provided a partial answer to Siebel Systems Inc.’s recent refresh of its flagship e-business platform when it began rolling out enterprise software geared for constructing portals. With the IBM Websphere Portal, Big Blue is trying to serve business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) through one single portal access point. […]

Denver, Colo.-based Jabber Inc., an instant messaging software maker for the enterprise whose technological foundation is the open-source project Jabber.org, Tuesday launched a program under which a limited user version of its flagship product will be available for free download. Beginning Tuesday, users will be able to go here to snap up the Jabber Communications […]