Clint Boulton

With the importance of helping customers create fresh, easily modified content in mind, Eprise Corp. Monday rolled out the latest version of its flagship content management solution that enables the construction of Internets, intranets and extranets for businesses. The availability of the Eprise Participant Server 3.5 coincides with the rollout of the Framingham, Mass. firm’s […]

Continuing its white-hot rival shopping spree, TMP Worldwide Inc., best known for its leading career resource site Monster.com, snatched up chief competitor HotJobs Ltd. for $460 million in stock. In what was a rare, sizeable deal inked late Friday after the market closed, New York City’s TMP said it would maintain HotJobs.com as a stand-alone […]

NEW YORK — Software and the modern desktop are dead. Even the newest, most cutting-edge products are pointless. That is the message that Yale University professor, computer scientist and author David Gelernter had for a modest audience as Thursday’s keynote speaker at TECHXNY. Why didn’t somebody tell Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and the teeming masses […]

If companies who are trying to profit from what is a nascent home digital entertainment have anything to say about it, home is where the network will be. That was the meat of the matter at TECHXNY Wednesday for three panelists — representatives of a company that makes computer displays and two chipmaking firms — […]

NEW YORK — San Francisco’s OmniSky Corp. Tuesday broadened its wireless horizons en masse with announcements concerning two major standards — Bluetooth and Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP. Demonstrating how its products work with handhelds and personal digital assistants (PDAs) at TECHXNY, the wireless applications provider demonstrated how its service may be used over the […]

Goldman Sachs (GS) software analyst Rick Sherlund spearheaded a hard rain on the software parade Tuesday when he and his colleagues lowered estimates for a slew of companies in that sector. Some are cuts with the short term in mind; some with the long term in perspective, but none of them, they say, should come […]

Community search provider Wherewithal Thursday rolled out an intranet search product geared to help corporate workers maintain a Web directory. Built on the strength of its advanced search algorithms, the Enterprise Web Directory makes it possible for customers to create an internal Web directory. The tool allows a company to build a “Yahoo-like” Web directory […]

Geneva’s UN/CEFACT and Boston-based OASIS Thursday officially settled on three technical committees that will be responsible for overseeing a standard devised to facilitate online business processes. Co-sponsors of the Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language Standard (ebXML), UN/CEFACT and OASIS said the committees signal the end to an 18-month development phase; to continue ebXML maintenance, OASIS […]

Addressing the rolling blackouts in California that have inconvenienced millions of people, IBM Thursday unveiled a powerful unclassified supercomputer to look into how the Sunshine State’s power grid system works. Big Blue announced the machine, which is capable of 3.8 trillion calculations per second, at the Supercomputing 2001 Conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The National Energy […]

Consulting firm EDS and software maker Vignette Corp. Wednesday secured a contract with aerospace and industrial product specialist Goodrich Corp. to power its global intranet. Financial terms of the contract were not made public. Specifically, EDS’ interactive agency, bluesphere, will use Vignette’s Content Management Server to run the Goodrich intranet, which will serve 24,000 employees. […]

Finally giving the world a large sampling of the technology it pledged to bring to the upcoming MusicNet initiative, RealNetworks Inc. Wednesday unleashed a new media commerce suite and an XML-based language that could obviate the need for digital rights management (DRM) in e-commerce. The RealSystem Media Commerce Suite includes products and services for secure […]

Recognizing the growing push for corporate workers to access company portals from handheld devices while traveling to remote destinations, Business Objects Tuesday launched the new version of the company’s mobile business intelligence (BI) portal. InfoView Mobile 4.0 lets workers to access key corporate information from their personal digital assistants or Web-enabled cell phones, and view […]