Clint Boulton

Microsoft Corp. Friday got quite an endorsement of its rarely-talked-about portal server as 13 software vendors pledged to fit their new enterprise offerings with the software giant’s SharePoint Portal Server. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Fusion 2001 business symposium and partner exposition, in Anaheim, Calif. The firms who agreed to support SharePoint by […]

StorageNetworks Inc. this week fired off a lawsuit against optical IP infrastructure provider Metromedia Fiber Network Services Inc. (MFN) for failing to provide enough fiber optic capacity per an agreement. StorageNetworks, a Waltham, Mass. provider of, yes, data storage management services and software, cited breach of contract and “unfair and deceptive trade practices” in a […]

In legal matters peripheral to anything going on with Microsoft Corp., StorageNetworks Inc. this week fired off a lawsuit against optical IP infrastructure provider Metromedia Fiber Network Services Inc. for failing to provide enough fiber optic capacity per an agreement. StorageNetworks, a Waltham, Mass. provider of, yes, data storage management services and software, cited breach […]

In the battle between two pending online music subscription firms to sign up major partners, Microsoft Corp. Thursday sided with Sony Music Entertainment’s and Universal Music Group’s pressplay to erect a co-branded site. The deal, in a way, again pits RealNetworks’ RealPlayer versus Windows Media. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but MSN […]

IBM Research Thursday said it has successfully created what it believes is the first automated auditing tool that can monitor 802.11 wireless networks, which would significantly improve security for users of Wi-Fi who want to combat “drive-by hacking.” And in keeping with IBM Corp.’s endorsement of open-source operating systems, it’s based on Linux. As a […]

Personal digital assistant (PDA) competition abroad got a bit slimmer Wednesday as London’s Psion PLC said that it will be paring 250 workers from its digital division, and canning its Bluetooth wireless products along the way. Psion, which cited poor sales for its handhelds and cell phones, expects to take a restructuring charge of £29 […]

Framingham, Mass.’s Eprise Corp. Wednesday rolled out a content deployment suite as the newest arrival to the firm’s family of content management products for the Web. The Eprise Content Deployment Suite (ECDS) takes dynamic content that has been created by an Eprise authoring server and automatically restores and synchronizes it for delivery across multiple deployment […]

3Com Corp. may have closed the book on its home networking device, Audrey, but it certainly hasn’t given up on networking and its potential as a pervasive force in businesses. The Santa Clara, Calif. firm Wednesday rolled out networking products geared to help companies cut connectivity costs and boost Web performance. Though nothing special or […]

Beverly Hills, Calif.’s NetCurrents Inc. Tuesday secured a patent for its real-time search application, a technology that enables monitoring of Internet messaging activity important to businesses for which up-to-date information is vital. NetCurrents, which bills itself as the “Premier Internet Intelligence Agency,” has been granted U.S. Patent Number 6,260,041, making it the first real-time technology […]

Search engine specialist AltaVista Co. Tuesday revealed that it would lend the latest version of its search engine software Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP-UX 11.0 operating environment this summer. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said AVSE 3.0 will be the first search software to support 64-bit architecture. with the bundling of […]

Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack Corp., one of the most popular consumer electronics stores in America, Friday bought back the 25 percent minority stake software titan Microsoft corp. bought in it nearly two years ago. RadioShack paid Microsoft, which originally bought the stake in November 1999, $88 million in cash for the interest and now has […]

Like others of its kind, San Diego’s MP3.com was recently snatched from the music service provider ether by a large music company. And like those others, business still goes on for the acquired until they can be completely assimilated. MP3.com Thursday secured Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a subscriber to its Business Music Services, a […]