Clint Boulton

With major phone companies in the midst of a race to get 3G communications — those that would add multimedia and ubiquitous flexibility — rolling as soon as possible, wireless networking giant Sprint PCS Group teamed with AirPrime Inc. Thursday to deliver a connection that would turn Handspring’s popular Visor handheld into a wireless phone. […]

While some financial analysts are predicting stilted consumer spending, the big technology guns are focusing on improving the performance of products consumers might buy when the supposedly stale economy refreshes. But that hasn’t stopped companies from eyeing the B2B sector with some interest. In fact, businesses are buying mobile communications devices for their employees. Firms […]

Nearly lost in the hectic shuffle of a significant deal between Yahoo! Inc. and Sony Corp. , was the announcement that the portal giant Tuesday upgraded its corporate portal solution. While most industry watchers or investors were perking up to Yahoo!’s and Sony’s co-branded content and communications tools agreement, the popular portal and media company […]

IBM Corp. Tuesday unveiled breakthrough storage products in its quest to gain market share from storage standby EMC Corp., which has had its troubles in recent months. Big Blue plans to roll out a fiber channel-based connection (FICON) for customers’ high-end disk systems, under the belt of its TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, or “Shark”, as […]

Motorola Inc. Monday acquired broadband routing, switching and cable modem termination system (CMTS) firm RiverDelta Networks Inc. for $300 million in stock after the bell. The final exchange ratio of the purchase of the Tewksbury, Mass. firm will not be fixed until the cusp of the deal’s closing and will be based on the average […]

Plano, Texas-based EDS inked a major contract (good to the tune of $6.9 billion over five years) last October when it agreed to develop and maintain an intranet for the U.S. Navy Marine Corps. With such an undertaking, it’s clear that EDS would have to also think about storing the vast amounts of data a […]

Virtual Prviate Networks (VPN) are hardly the sexiest of topic conversations compared to, say, wireless networking or the elusiveness of 3G, but their importance shouldn’t be taken lightly or dismissed. San Jose, Calif.’s Cisco Systems Inc. demonstrated its commitment to the corporate safeguards Friday when it bought small, privately-held Allegro Systems Inc. of Milpitas, Calif. […]

Eprise Corp. Thursday picked up another customer for its content management platform — this time in the form of Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. (MEAU), which will implement the Framingham, Mass. firm’s Participant Server to manage its Web Store and extranet. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a global supplier of automation products […]

Citing the mantra du jour about the trudging state of technology spending on the consumer side, Palo Alto, Calif.’s Hewlett-Packard Co. Thursday announced it would pink slip about 6,000 people (through Q4) for an annual cost savings of $500 million. It also reported a sales decline of 14 percent to 16 percent year-over-year for the […]

Helsinki, Finland’s famous handset maker Nokia Wednesday afternoon shelled out $421 million in stock for Fremont, Calif.’s Amber Networks, which is widely known for its fault-tolerant routing platform. The purchase is part of Nokia’s “FlexiGateway” strategy, whereby the wireless specialist hopes to develop a new carrier grade routing platform for the network edge. The deal […]

Boston’s Corechange Inc., which develops software for portals, said Wednesday that it has secured energy titan American Electric Power as a customer for its access framework product. Financial terms were not disclosed. AEP will use it to build an enterprise portal. According to the firms’ calculations, 80 percent of all information will be within two […]

Palo Alto, Calif.’s Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday made a major move to fatten its storage management strategy Wednesday by buying Bridgewater, N.J.’s software maker StorageApps for $350 million in stock. HP inked the deal to help customers set up and manage storage networks more easily. In incorporating StorageApp’s technology, HP will also be able to allow […]