Clint Boulton

As has been widely reported, IBM Corp. plans to go live next week with its answer to last week’s super server announcement by its chief rival, Sun Microsystems Inc. The company’s dual-processor chip, Power4, will run the Unix server, code-named Regatta, at 32-processor configurations. IBM hasn’t said much to date about the new Unix server, […]

Planning long ahead for the surge in traffic that will surely result when China gains entry to the WTO and prepares for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China Netcom Corp. (CNC) Friday bought four 2.5 Gigabits per second (Gbps) wavelengths from Asia Global Crossing to connect Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Bu the deal, for […]

IBM continued this year’s partnership with Shell Oil Co. Thursday when the gas power picked Big Blue to spearhead its wireless-powered gas station experiment. Slated to be conducted in the U.S., the pact calls for IBM to link company-operated retail locations with corporate systems, helping Shell improve its retail operations and to reduce operating costs. […]

After months of anticipation, questions and debates about the future of online music distribution, Seattle-based MusicNet — the platform developed and backed by AOL Time Warner, RealNetworks Inc., Bertelsmann AG, and EMI Recorded Music — beat rival pressplay to the finish line Thursday when it began distributing its platform to partners. The platform was shipped […]

Mountain View, Calif.’s Handspring Wednesday continued its dealings with wireless solution providers when it inked a sales and marketing relationship with Owings Mills, Md.’s Aether Systems to improve its service for its flagship Visor handheld line. Though financial terms of the deal were not made public, Aether and Handspring will deliver enterprise solutions based on […]

It’s now less than a month before the greatly-anticipated new operating system from Microsoft Corp. will roll out in stores and the software giant has been offering snapshots of its features and announcing partnerships with major software companies who are lining up to support Windows XP. Wednesday was no different as the Redmond, Wash. firm […]

Loudeye Technologies Inc.’s, digital content infrastructure and services provisions could get a bit more rounded out. The Seattle firm late Tuesday acquired webcasting provider Activate.net Corp., a majority-owned operating company of struggling incubator CMGI Inc. The transaction is good to the tune of $1 million, said a Loudeye spokesperson, with the option for Loudeye to […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday inked a deal with graphics software maker Macromedia Inc. to cut down the time it takes it for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop Windows CE operating system-based devices that include Macromedia Flash Player. Under the terms of deal, OEMs will be able to take advantage of specially discounted fees for porting […]

Compaq Computer Corp. Tuesday showed how it approaches business from different angles when it introduced five computing-on-demand services packages for enterprise customers. Geared for the enterprise because it is priced on a per-seat, per-month basis, the strategy features Compaq’s new Evo line of desktops and notebooks, which were announced in May. Compaq said it would […]

In an announcement some analysts say is the Internet-oriented version of the laying of the transcontinental railroads years ago, a host of the industry’s top data storage providers Monday announced the industry’s first gigabit-speed transcontinental IP storage network. Spearheaded by San Jose, Calif.’s Nishan Systems, with Adaptec, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Intel, QLogic and […]

While the online music platform MusicNet is being primed for a highly-anticipated fall delivery, one of its technology providers, RealNetworks Inc., isn’t forgetting the advancement of its own software enhancement track. The Seattle firm unleashed a new platform Monday that fuses its popular RealPlayer and RealJukebox video and audio applications into one integrated media player. […]

When people think of digitally stored data, they think of important information — personal records, finances, credit card numbers. With regards to the the enterprise side, people think of stored accounts they manage and pertinent documents to deals brokered. But digital storage can and, as was shown by the events of Sept. 11, should be […]