Clint Boulton

While newly-acquired MP3 is best known for its vast bank of about a million songs, many people forget that it also dabbles in the business-to-business arena. On Friday, the San Diego-based company reminded customers that it offers Radio Services for all types of radio stations, as well as a syndicated radio program that connects terrestrial […]

Web content management specialist IntraNet Solutions Inc. (INRS) Thursday got a boost when e-business software and services provider eGlobal Technology Services, said it would help INRS’s acceleration in the Asia Pacific region. Financial terms of the multi-year deal were not made public. Under the aegis of eGlobal, INRS will form a new business organization, IntraNet […]

With all of Big Blue’s efforts to promote its new servers and microprocessors, its easy for industry watchers to forget that IBM Corp. boasts a significant outsourcing outfit. IBM Corp. reminded the business world Thursday that it owns a Global Service Division (GSD) when it penned a deal to provide technology for NTL Inc., a […]

Ten days after claiming strong growth in its Wireless Data Division, with revenues up 50 percent from its previous quarter, Dallas’ WebLink Wireless Inc. Thursday said it has filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, the company plans to depend on Chapter 11 […]

Casting aside investors concerns of a week ago when it admitted that its revenue outlook was much lower, Palm Inc. Wednesday scored a bit of a coup Wednesday when Taiwan’s Acer Inc. said it would dispose of Microsoft Corp.’s Window CE operating system in favor of the Palm OS. This should come as no shock […]

Planet Intra Tuesday descended on the quiet sector of knowledge management when it launched a new information system designed to help firms collaborate and communicate more effectively. Very much in the same vein as IntraNet Solutions Inc.’s Xpedio content management product, the Intra.net Information Management System (IMS) provides infrastructure that adds value to the information […]

You’d better believe major high-tech companies when they say they are going to make their products compatible to wireless devices or networks. At least believe they are going to try their darndest to fit their applications or hardware products with mobile capabilities what with all of this talk about 2.5G and 3G– the much-talked-about future […]

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. Monday said it was bolstering its virtual private network (VPN) solution center (SC) to deliver extremely fast, and ultimately more secure, IPsec-based VPNs. Already a fully functional center with a history of spawning VPN products for new or existing enterprises, the VPN SC will now deploy systems based on Multiprotocol […]

Despite a widely acknowledged slowdown in spending for computers, chipmakers are unwavering in their attempts to bring more powerful chips to market. For the second straight week, Intel Corp. announced a new processor; this one is geared to power high-end and mid-range workstations. Based on the company’s NetBurst architecture, the newly-born Intel Xeon processors ship […]

Caving in to the stringent technological demands of crafting digital products, software maker Preview Systems Inc. called it quits Friday and sold its electronic software distribution (ESD) business to Chicago’s Aladdin Knowledge Systems for $5 million in cash. Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Preview, which said in February that it was looking for alternatives and intimated May 8 […]

Los Altos, Calif.’s Inclusion Inc., one of the many firms that bill themselves as knowledge sharing or management enablers (a la IntraNet Solutions and Plumtree) Thursday scored a coup when it hooked Sun Microsystems Inc. to buy its intranet communications solution. The self-titled software was designed to help workers collaborate and communicate more effectively; Sun […]

Sure, watchers can delight in the microprocessor battles between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), both of which are trying to top each other for the fastest, most reliable chip for mobile devices, but there are other equally interesting competitive schemes afoot — try IBM Corp.’s push to catch up with Sun Microsystems Inc. […]