Clint Boulton

Palm Inc. Thursday announced two significant blows to its business when it cut its revenue outlook for its fourth quarter of 2001 by 50 percent and killed its planned purchase of mobile software specialist Extended Systems Inc. Palm said it now expects revenue for the fourth quarter to range between $140 million and $160 million, […]

The future of gaming has to loom large if some of the top technology companies are vying for purchase among Sony’s scared village. Just days after weighing in at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) gaming conference with promises to improve the gaming landscape, RealNetworks Inc. and Microsoft, made some noise about their media players. Well […]

Telecommunications giant WorldCom Tuesday spruced up its Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) services with the release of a new edition based on networking titan Cisco Systems Inc.’s technology. Forget about hosted services and outsourcing — the WorldCom IP VPN Select Access Edition is tailored to take firms looking to make bucks out of […]

In a move symbolic of the cost-cutting and value-adding battle between top handheld makers, Handspring Inc. Tuesday trimmed $50 from its flagship phone price tag in addition to spicing it up with wireless and e-mail applications. VisorPhone will now sell for $449 as a standalone product and retail for $249 for customers who want the […]

Not all e-consulting firms are going the way of the dodo bird or are being snapped up by giant tech firms. E-consultant Syntegra proved that Monday when it secured a contract with Unilever to help the consumer products titan host its Internet and intranet sites around the world. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, […]

IntraNet Solutions Inc. (INRS) Thursday teamed with portal specialist Sybase Inc. to develop a solution with which businesses can manage content in a portal interface. Under the agreement, for which financial terms were not disclosed, IntraNet Solutions has joined Sybase’s e-Portal Alliance, a group that offers e-business applications with Sybase’s flagship Enterprise Portal (EP). The […]

As many companies race to stay ahead of the curve in the evolution of the Web, Microsoft Corp. is no different. The software giant, too, is in the midst of changes — changes that Goldman Sachs (GS) addressed in a research report Tuesday. Noting that Microsoft has been opting for recurring revenue streams as of […]

CacheFlow Inc. Monday introduced a new content delivery system that enables enterprises to roll out streaming applications onto their intranet infrastructures. The content networker weighed in at the NetWorld+Interop conference in Las Vegas with the cIQ Starter Kit, which was created for organizations that have four or more remote offices; a company looking for a […]

Let the bidding war begin. Proxicom Inc., a Reston, VA.-based e-consulting firm who agreed to be acquired by Compaq Computer Corp. nearly two a weeks ago, said Monday it has received a higher bid-per-share from South Africa’s Dimension Data Holdings plc. On April 26, Compaq had offered Proxicom $5.75 per share in cash — a […]

Compaq Computer Corp. and Intel Corp. Monday embarked on a partnership targeting IT customers who seek low power consumption, and increased density in their front-end servers. Financial terms of the co-marketing and engineering deal were not revealed, but the No. 2 computer maker will use the chipmaker’s ultra low-voltage (ULV) processors (code-named Tualatin) as part […]

If this works out, open-source fans would have a worthy achievement to cheer after the 2000 election recount debacle in Florida. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a non-profit XML interoperability consortium, this week put the finishing touches on a technical committee to standardize the exchange of election and voter services […]

While storage giants such as EMC Corp. and Brocade Communications Systems regale tech-heads with positive outlooks for their sector at the Merrill Lynch Hardware Technology Conference in New York City this week, one smaller competitor is putting the finishing touches on an IP storage solution suite. Campbell, Calif.’s SAN Valley Systems has teamed with leaders […]