Clint Boulton

With business seemingly rolling along per usual despite being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. in a blockbuster Labor Day deal, Compaq Computer Corp. unveiled a suite of iPAQ products that make setting a network up in the home or small office less messy. The eight tools — an array of adapters, PC cards and switches billed […]

Top personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. Thursday reported a loss of $38.7 million, or 7 cents a share, for Q1 2002, but still beat the 9-cent loss expected by analysts from UBS Warburg and Credit Suisse First Boston. Chief among the metrics for the news is Palm’s precipitous plummet in sales, which dropped 47 […]

In the wake of heightened concerns for network safety, enterprise security provider Sygate Technologies Wednesday said that it has created a dedicated application that shields virtual private network (VPN) connections from malicious programs. The Fremont, Calif. firm designed the solution specifically for French telecommunications giant Alcatel’s VPN. What makes the tool dedicated is that Alcatel’s […]

With the events of Sept. 11 still quite visible in the U.S.’s rearview mirror, analysts, economists and other financial wizards have weighed in on what kind of effect the tragedy may have on the state of high-tech in the U.S. Goldman Sachs was one of those firms. On Tuesday, the research arm of the esteemed […]

While some firms are struggling to stay afloat, others are taking advantage of what has been a sagging economy in recent months. Given this particularly juicy situation for a potential buyer with reasonably deep pockets, Chicago’s divine inc., a dot-com incubator turned software and service provider, Tuesday continued its busy spending spree when it snapped […]

While some firms are struggling to stay afloat, others are taking advantage of what has been a sagging economy in recent months. Given this particularly juicy situation for a potential buyer with reasonably deep pockets, Chicago’s divine inc., a dot-com incubator turned software and service provider, Tuesday continued its busy spending spree when it snapped […]

With better performance and security for wireless devices at the top of many peoples’ wish lists these days, software maker DATA BECKER Corp. Monday drew the curtain on new tools that increase memory and security for devices that use the ubiquitous Palm operating system as their platform. The Needham Heights, Mass. firm’s “Compress IT” extends […]

Consumer electronics software maker Planetweb Monday pledged to add consumer applications such as e-mail, chat and a browser to Philips Digital Networks’ set-top boxes, which are based on Europe’s Multimedia Home Platform (MHP). Under the agreement, for which financial details were not revealed, Redwood Shores, Calif.’s Planetweb joins Philips’ CompanionTV partnership program, which fosters development […]

Carlsbad, CA-based Computer Economics estimates the cost of building the information technology infrastructure damaged last week in New York and Washington will be close to $15.8 billion. The estimate includes about $1.7 billion spent to keep disrupted operations going in the short-term in work that will involve as many as 125,000 IT workers. Beyond that, […]

At the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam Friday, chipmaker Broadcom Corp., inked a specification agreement with Paris-based Canal+ Technologies to develop set-top box technology for interactive television (iTV) applications. The firms, which also agreed to collaborate in certain markets on chip specification and set-top box designs, did not make financial details public Friday. Specifically, Broadcom’s […]

How the high times have come and gone. Struggling Excite@Home Thursday sold its popular e-mail greeting card subsidiary BlueMountain.com for $35 million in cash to AmericanGreetings.com — a sum that pales in comparison to the $780 million the Internet service provider paid for it 1999. Bundling e-greeting firm BlueMountain.com with the American Greeting Corp. subsidiary […]

In a play to go one up on search engine technology rivals AltaVista Co. and Google Inc., Emeryville, Calif.’s Ask Jeeves Inc. snapped up privately-held Teoma Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Ask Jeeves said it believes Teoma, the provenance of whose name comes from the Gaelic word for “expert,” will help it provide one […]