Clint Boulton

In one of the many licensing agreements involving its popular digital media delivery system, Seattle’s RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday agreed to offer its RealSystem iQ solution across Compaq Computer Corp.’s server and corresponding platforms. Specifically, Houston’s Compaq will extend RealSystem iQ, a network media delivery system capable of airing anything from lo-fi audio to hi-fi video, […]

A patent infringement lawsuit filed by Xerox Corp. more than four years ago against Palm Inc. over its use of handwriting recognition technology has seen some life after it was nearly killed by a dismissal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Monday ruled in favor of the Stamford, Conn.-based printing specialist, allowing […]

IDC’s recent report that the market for IT security services will triple over the next four years or so has caused some firms to sit up and take notice. Then again, the temptation to grab a large slice of a possible $21 billion pie could have that affect on a major technology innovator. Armonk, N.Y.’s […]

These days, low-power processing is an extremely attractive feature in a sector where cutting power consumption is synonymous with cutting costs. Santa Clara, Calif.’s Intel Corp. Monday drew the curtain on a new microprocessor technology, which is thinner, and by extension, requires less energy to be used. Moreover, the leading chipmaker said the new form […]

Following a few weeks of uncertainty about the way Sept. 11’s terrorist attacks would affect the travel industry, Fort Worth, Texas-based Travelocity.com Friday said it would cut its staff by 10 percent, or 320 employees. The cuts, 35 of which came today, and 285 of which will be phased out at when its Sacramento, Calif. […]

San Francisco-based content delivery network Digital Island Inc. made its first significant move Thursday under the aegis of Cable & Wireless, the British telecommunications power that bought it in August for $340 million in cash. The new offering is called 2Way Web Services and, at a time when companies’ wallets are considerably lighter than they […]

Stressing lower prices over number of processors, IBM Thursday took its latest Unix server live Thursday in answer to Sun Microsystems Inc.’s attack on its mainframes with Sun Fire 15K. As previously reported, the IBM eServer p690, code-named Regatta, runs AIX 5L operating system, a platform geared for 64-bit Linux capability, and is powered by […]

It was only a matter of time for the commencement of litigation some call “Napster: Part 2.” The motion picture and recording industries Wednesday moved to lay the litigious smackdown on file-sharing networks in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Despite the fact that the firms are […]

A porous economy hasn’t stopped many wireless solution providers from going forward with key technology partnerships, and while consumer confidence may have taken a gut-punch many firms are setting themselves up to serve the enterprise sector. Dallas-based Software maker Handango and service provider Software Spectrum Inc. proved as much Wednesday when they agreed to offer […]

Software developers who are fans of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system (or “environment,” as the firm calls it) can test it before it goes public, the company said Tuesday. Palo Alto, Calif.’s Sun launched Solaris 9 Developer Early Access software as the first beta of its Solaris 9 Operating Environment — the firm’s newest […]

In the same week it’s scheduled to launch one of its most powerful Unix servers yet, IBM Corp. said Monday it is launching an initiative to improve the energy efficiency of computing. This “low-power computing research effort” will be spearheaded by the Armonk, N.Y.-based firm’s research lab in Austin, Texas and comes perhaps not coincidentally […]

Following the burst of the dot-com bubble, scores of business leaders hoping to solve the riddle of monetizing aspects of the Internet put their heads together and came up with such pay-to-play platforms as MusicNet and pressplay, the proprietors of which could license them to firms looking to offer online music subscription services. Now it […]