Clint Boulton

Peer-to-peer networking….supercomputing…distributed computing… Whatever you care to call it, the idea of getting groups of PCs to work together in harmony to complete a task is a thing of beauty to people for different reasons. For the tech-heads, the thrill seems to be in the process of interweaving the computers — getting them to actually […]

Stamford, Conn.-based META Group Inc., best known for its research reports and consulting practice, Thursday announced a reshuffling of the executive deck and said that it had slashed its work force by 15 percent in order to save $10 million. Stepping down are META’s President Larry R. DeBoever and Peter Burris, co-research director, president, and […]

What has RealNetworks Inc. started? The digital distribution company kicked off the week by announcing an online music subscription service in conjunction with AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann AG and Emi Group Monday. That was hot enough news in an industry determined to snuff the flames of the Napster vs. recording industry conflagration, but it apparently […]

Long-time partners Sun Microsystems Inc. and e-business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. Wednesday embarked on a new global alliance aiming to place PeopleSoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) products in Sun’s Solaris 8 operating environment and Java-based platforms. The strategic deal between the firms, whose allegiance to each other dates back to 10 years, would be attractive […]

RealNetworks Inc. Wednesday scored another endorsement of its seemingly omnipresent RealPlayer as chipmaker Intel Corp. agreed to make it the player of choice in its Web appliance. Like most Web appliances, Intel’s Dot.Station is geared to allow consumers to surf the Web or send e-mails without having to park in front of a largely immobile […]

It pays to be the bearer of popular standard patents. At least that is what InterDigital Technology Corp. (ITC) learned when it signed on seminal Japanese electronics firm Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. to license its W-CDMA technology, a rival of the regular CDMA standard that is supposed to be faster. Matsushita plans to roll […]

Napster Chief Executive Officer Hank Barry Tuesday stood before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary United State Senate in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to institute a license that would work similar to those used for years in radio to render music delivery over the Web. Barry’s plea was the latest in a series of […]

In the wake of Apple’s Mac OS X launch, Macromedia Inc. Monday unveiled the latest version of its software kit for graphic designers, which boasts compatibility with the much-ballyhooed new operating system. Macromedia’s FreeHand 10 features new tools, productivity enhancements, tight integration with Macromedia Flash 5, the Macromedia User Interface, and the ability to publish […]

In what many industry watchers have knighted as a historic event for the distribution of online music, Real Networks Inc. confirmed Monday that it has embarked on a venture with media giants AOL Time Warner Inc., Bertelsmann AG and EMI Group plc to create a platform for online music subscription services. Fittingly dubbed MusicNet, the […]

In the latest in the long line of security dilemmas, Microsoft Corp. said Friday a hole had been detected in its Internet Explorer browser in which a hacker could allow a malicious page or e-mail to perform any action on a computer. The vulnerability affects IE 5, IE 5.5 over all Windows platforms. The hole, […]

On the heels of yesterday’s agreement to partner with NTT Communications to put the celebrated Xbox on broadband in Japan, Microsoft Corp. Friday expanded on this and all but vowed to corral the gaming market in Japan. As the keynote of the 2001 Spring Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft Chairman Architect Bill Gates outlined a strategy […]

One week after Microsoft Corp. said two false digital certificates were issued in its name by VeriSign Inc., the software giant has patched the security holes. Consumers who check the company’s security bulletin will find the cure here. VeriSign mistakenly issued two Class 3 certificates to an employee claiming to be a Microsoft employee in […]