Clint Boulton

Content infrastructure provider Interwoven Inc. Tuesday tapped Liquent for its rendering technology. Financial terms of the original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement were not made public. Interwoven, which competes with such software vendors as Vignette Corp. and Intranet Solutions Inc. to help data flow via the Web more smoothly, plans to use Liquent’s Xtent suite for […]

A Goldman Sachs report that lowered estimates for Sun Microsystems Inc. “broadly” caused shares of the giant hardware vendor to dip 30 cents Tuesday to about $14.20. The report, issued one day before Sun plans to air an intra-quarter update conference call, found that Sun was losing the battle in the current stale economic climate. […]

Nokia Monday added to its growing line of virtual private network (VPN) solutions by including support for smart cards, external public key infrastructure and remote client for IPSec over network address translation (NAT). In the industry-wide effort to increase security over networks for remote users, Nokia’s new technology allows mobile users to log into the […]

With reaching unprecedented speeds in mind, Intel Corp. Monday introduced a chip that runs at 2 gigahertz (GHz), or 2 billion cycles per second, making it one of the fastest processors ever to be lodged in a PC. The latest in Intel’s vaunted Pentium 4 processor line, said it sees the chip as a major […]

For most people, the words “instant messaging” conjure images of chat-happy teens banging away at their keyboards to talk with friends. Logically, it’s a cost-effective solution when one considers the hours they could spend tying up the phone for long-distance calls. And it does wonders in terms of positive branding for those who supply the […]

Admitting that gauging high-tech company results has been like “catching a falling knife” this year, Goldman, Sachs & Co. based its Friday trimmed estimates on software powerhouses, claiming that the business climate would only worsen. It wouldn’t be fair to call them winds of change — software sales have been stagnant for months — but […]

While RealNetworks Inc. CEO Rob Glaser has been out and about hawking the MusicNet online subscription service, his company has been quietly doing business overseas, which is perhaps why this is the first the U.S. has heard of RealNetworks’ agreement with BBC Technology. The media delivery giant, which at least one magazine (Red Herring) has […]

IBM Wednesday will drop a voice toolkit on the software world that was crafted to allow developers with little voice-recognition experience to forge speech-enabled applications that are accessible by phones and other mobile devices. Released as a beta under Big Blue’s WebSphere brand, the toolkit supports the open VoiceXML standard forged by IBM, AT&T, Motorola […]

SAP Portals Inc., the portal-providing subsidiary of Germany’s SAP AG, said Tuesday that it has signed on to make its unification portal the base for Amsterdam-based Getronic’s enterprise portal. Financial terms of the deal were not made public. Specifically, IT solutions and services provider Getronics will unleash the new SAP-powered portal this September to its […]

Ever seeking to make data dissemination throughout enterprises more efficient, Woburn, Mass.’s Intranets.com Monday unveiled the first major enhancement to its subscription service since migrating to an all-paid model in July. The new features include Web Folders, an update to the document library, a check-in/check-out editing feature, an updated polling application and an application management […]

Their online music subscription services haven’t so much as rolled out yet, but already MusicNet and pressplay are being put under the U.S. Department of Justice’s microscope for possible antitrust violations. The probe was triggered by industry outcry that claims MusicNet — a service formed by AOL Time Warner Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Bertelsmann AG and […]

If technology is about helping the world evolve to some degree, some evolutionary changes to the U.S. Copyright Act may be a good thing, according to two legislators. The Digital Media Association (DiMA), a trade organization that claims to represent the interests of digital entertainment technology companies the likes of Napster, teamed with U.S. Reps. […]