Clint Boulton

It seems like something out of a film about white-collar scandals, a la the films Wall Street or Boiler Room — except the accused wasn’t being tattooed for hoodwinking people out of their companies or their life savings. Instead, in allegedly arranging fake stock deals, offshore accounts and a cardboard company, former Cisco Systems Inc. […]

Sybase Inc. Tuesday bundled Enterprise SDL International’s Translation Server into the Portal Translation Manager option available for Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 Portal Translation Manager. Sybase said its translation manager tool would now provide real-time translations of documents or data flowing through the portal upon request, and is fully integrated with portal security and other services. […]

Gateway Inc. became the latest hardware player to jump into the storage networking game Monday when it released the first in a series of network attached storage (NAS) products for businesses who find themselves overwhelmed with large amounts of data. On tap is the Gateway GS 400 storage system, which is available in three models, […]

Casting for more eyeballs, Yahoo! Inc. Monday unveiled Yahoo! Broadcast, a new site replete with the latest in streaming audio and video capabilities. In fighting through recent layoffs and weaker spending in online advertising, Yahoo! desires to be the top entertainment portal in the world and has worked toward that end with its new broadcast […]

IBM Corp. will take aim at Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday with the launch of two new midrange servers — the deskside p620 and rack-mounted p660 — as part of its overall strategy to catch up to Sun, which leads the U.S. in UNIX server market share. It also will open up things a bit in […]

It pays to be secure. Literally. Especially where the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is concerned. An invaluable group to the government because it tips them off to security threats before they can mete out damage, CERT Thursday said it will open up its advisories about viruses, hacks, and other pesky nuisances to […]

Shortly after posting a first quarter net income growth of 15 percent, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. finished hammering out a deal Thursday evening to buy consulting firm Mainspring, of Cambridge, Mass., in an all-stock transaction valued at $80 million. In the deal, IBM will pay $4 per share in cash for all outstanding Mainspring common […]

Members of the security advisory group SecureXpert Direct this week isolated a bug in Microsoft Corp.’s ISA Web server 2000 that would render the Web server victim to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Simply, the ISA Server Web Proxy service will not be able to handle a certain type of Web request if it exceeds a particular […]

Spurred on by the latest trend in for-a-fee music services, RioPort Inc. Wednesday introduced a service that delivers secure digital music payloads on devices such as audio players and cell phones. Peer-to-peer networking who? Billed as a Direct-to-Device service to make crystal clear that it is not meant for the PC, the service is another […]

Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc. and Portland, Ore.’s NetIQ Corp. Tuesday penned a strategic alliance in which the two firms agreed to fuse their technologies to create a real-time Web reporting service. Spearheaded by Akamai and titled SiteWise, the service integrates NetIQ’s WebTrends Live technology to cater to marketing executives, Internet business managers, Web developers, […]

Amazon.com Tuesday joined Santa Monica, Calif.-based Launch Media Inc. as an e-commerce provider of CDs, cassettes and music videos. As part of the non-exclusive arrangement, an Amazon.com music link will be laced all over Launch.com wherever users have the opportunity to make a purchase. Launch will receive a share of any revenue generated from the […]

Xdrive Technologies Inc.’s free Express service went dim for a few days over the holiday weekend due to a misunderstanding between the popular storage provider and one of its investors. Phil Ressler, senior vice president of marketing at Xdrive, said users of Xdrive Express were denied access for a few days after a misunderstanding among […]