Clint Boulton

NEW YORK — No, Napster is not dead. But yes, you can’t get anything from the halted service right now. That’s because Napster version 3.0 is still being worked out by the techies at the Redwood City, Calif.-based firm. But both departing interim CEO Hank Barry, who bore the brunt of the legal guns levied […]

RealNetworks Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rob Glaser kicked off Tuesday’s festivities at Jupiter Media Metrix’s Plug.In conference in fine fashion with a demonstration of the much-talked-about MusicNet subscription service. Glaser spent a few uncomfortable moments trying to log in to the MusicNet interface, but quickly switched gears while a technical glitch was corrected […]

As is typical with first days of summits, Monday at Jupiter Media Metrix’s sixth annual Plug.In digital music festival at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York City went by with nary a whimper, but according to some sources, Tuesday promises to be a different story. Reuters squeezed out of Napster Inc. sources that […]

If you were to peruse the menu for the sixth annual Jupiter Media Metrix-hosted digital music festival slated for next Monday and Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York City, you would find a lot to get excited about. It seems all the necessary major players are represented at Plug.In. Napster skipper […]

DSP chip solution provider Cirrus Logic Inc. Thursday acquired wireless home networking mainstay ShareWave Inc. and fellow chipmaker LuxSonor Semiconductors Inc. for a combined $157 million in stock. Under terms of the separate agreements, the Austin, Texas-based firm will pay $92 million in stock for El Dorado Hills, Calif.’s ShareWave and $65 million in stock […]

Thomson Financial, a developer of integrated solutions for the financial tech sector, Thursday said it created a customized intranet solution for investment firm Gruntal & Co. Thomson Financial designed Gruntal’s new site, which will be used to disseminate internal research and other content to more than 1,000 brokers and clients, with its Web platform. The […]

Eden Prairie, Minn.’s IntraNet Solutions Inc. made some mobile waves Wednesday when it agreed to license its content viewing technology to Mobile Computing Technologies (MCT), a Japan-based wireless technology and consulting company. Terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed, but the maker of Xpedio, a popular content management system, will provide its Outside In […]

Austin, Texas-based Dell Computer Corp. Wednesday vowed to introduce a line of network switches for small and medium business customers in the U.S. beginning in its third quarter this year. Dell will call it the PowerConnect line and hopes its reputation for delivering quality servers and computers will offer a nice piggyback platform on which […]

Lest anyone forgot or skimmed over the point from the original announcement, Monster.com owner TMP Worldwide Inc. and HotJobs Tuesday reiterated the fact that the latter will be run as a separate company. TMP announced that it would buy HotJobs, the No. 2 career resource site, for $460 million in stock June 29, and affirmed […]

Following four months of serious contemplation of its fiscal situation, service provider Comdisco Inc. Monday has decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its U.S. concerns, sell its technology service division to Hewlett-Packard Co. for $610 million, and trim 200 jobs from its workforce. Comdisco is known primarily as a technology leasing company, […]

Graphics software specialist Corel Corp. Monday bought Micrografx Inc., a smaller firm with similar interests, for about $32 million in stock. The agreement has been forged in such a way that Micrografx shareholders will get a transaction value equivalent to one times Micrografx’s fiscal 2001 annual revenues, or approximately $2 per Micrografx share. Interestingly, the […]

While it’s true many online media companies received Mike Tyson-esque beatings from a sluggish market in the past six months or so, software companies are still plunging ahead with new and improved online publishing platforms. Take Accumedia for instance. Next week, the Boulder, Colo.-based outfit will launch the latest version of its Accumedia Convergence Platform […]