Clint Boulton

In a stab at correcting some flaws in its products, Zone Labs Inc. Wednesday said it plans to go live with new security products to fend off viruses, hackers and other threats to the firewall at the operating system level. Security watchdog WolfPak noted in a bulletin last December that ZoneAlarm “does not allow its […]

A few weeks after agreeing on XHTML interoperability standards, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Wednesday issued XML Schema as a W3C recommendation to help developers improve the functionality of e-commerce systems. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use said vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. […]

Denver-based fiber optic networker Winfirst Tuesday chose Vivendi Universal’s Canal Plus Technologies as its primary supplier of interactive television (iTV) to 3.7 million homes. Specifically, Winfirst will use the U.S. division of Canal’s MediaHighway middleware and MediaGuard conditional access system on its network in Sacramento and San Diego; Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas, […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday unveiled the latest developer toolkit that helps businesses improve the content in their portals — and it has gotten plenty of help from numerous software makers. The kit, Microsoft’s Digital Dashboard Resource Kit (DDRK), is free and was designed with the software giant’s SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 […]

Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems (ISS) late Monday night moved to boost its current portfolio of offerings with the purchase of privately-held Network ICE Corp. for $195 million in stock. ISS bought the San Mateo, Calif. manufacturer of desktop intrusion protection technology for approximately 4.3 million common shares, valued at approximately $195 million based on the […]

A few days after reporting lower-than-expected losses, AvantGo Inc. — which said it sees wireless services as the second coming of the Internet — unveiled some options for avid users to buy wireless services and hardware directly from its Web site. San Mateo, Calif-based AvantGo, which boasts 2.5 million customers, said it has made shopping […]

Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp. Thursday was the winner of the contract to provide security for the U.S. Navy/Marine Corp’s organization-wide intranet. According to the companies, Symantec will provide a significant portion of the security components including firewall, virus protection, content filtering, vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solutions to safeguard the technology services for Department of […]

America Online Inc. and Microsoft Corp. can’t lay claim to spearheading the instant messaging (IM) scene anymore. Top handset providers Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia Thursday set aside their competitive natures to announce an initiative to create a universal protocol for mobile instant messaging. Called the Wireless Village, or specifically, the Mobile Instant Messaging and Presence […]

One week to the day after IBM Corp. nabbed Mainspring, Compaq Computer Corp. Thursday snapped up Reston, Va.-based Proxicom Inc. in a cash deal valued at about $266 million. Houston’s Compaq doled out $5.75 per share in the deal and will commence a tender offer for all outstanding Proxicom shares. Peter Blackmore, executive vice president, […]

The explosion of messaging collaboration at corporations has paved the road for some companies to get together to develop killer solutions. For example, Network Appliance Wednesday continued its hot streak of storage partnerships by tabbing Redwood City-based Openwave to create a collaborative messaging solution with storage capabilities. The pairing should help Openwave, a communication software […]

Even the larger fish are trying their hands at peer-to-peer, or distributed computing, although Sun Microsystems Inc. leaked its news to the public in low-key fashion Wednesday. Taking a bit of a breather from its fierce server battles with chief rival IBM Corp., the hardware company revealed a distributed computing software, the tangible evidence of […]

Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) has long had this concern about drive by hackers. That’s right — drive-by hackers. ISS claims perpetrators can equip their laptops with wireless technology, sit inconspicuously on a park bench, or in a car, and casually monitor traffic, access applications, and hijack data flowing over someone else’s wireless network, […]