Clint Boulton

With all of the hoopla surrounding Microsoft Corp.’s Hailstorm initiative and its XP operating system, it’s understandable how the public can forget about other aspects of the software purveyor’s business. But many people forget that those plays are a year or two away (tentatively, no less) from hitting the street. Microsoft reminded the public Wednesday […]

Preaching collaboration from afar, remote access specialist Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Expertcity Inc. Tuesday picked up two major clients to use its DesktopStreaming application. Broadband communications outfit Cox Communications and media giant Bertelsmann Services Inc. have licensed Expertcity’s tool to provide remote assistance to their customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. The premise of the application […]

Inprimis Inc. Tuesday agreed to acquire the very firm it had been working with to create an interactive DVD player set-top box for about $6.5 million in stock. Boca Raton, Fl.-based Inprimis shelled out 6.6 million shares of its stock for iDVDBox Inc., and has been quietly working with the company on the interactive DVD […]

True to earlier analyst estimates, Palm Inc. Tuesday reported $471 million in sales for the third quarter but, like others in the tempestuous tech economy, they also became leaner by trimming 250 employees from their staff to prepare for a slowdown in spending. Palm reported pro forma income of $9.3 million, or 2 cents a […]

Compaq Computer Corp. endorsed Microsoft’s XP operating system Monday when it agreed to fit the software platform into its pending tablet PC. A proven consumer-sales leader in the PC industry, Compaq has deemed XP the right fit for its own tablet PCs, which are small, mobile computers the size of an 11-by-13-inch sheet of paper […]

Despite a comfortable spate of acquisitions and product releases in the past few weeks, Goldman Sachs (GS) Friday estimated that key metrics will decrease across the board for Palm Inc., which is expected to report revenue on the low side of its $465 million to $490 million guidance. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Palm, which has shipped […]

When MSC.Linux, the open-source solution division of MSC.Software Corp., makes its MSC.Linux V2001 beta version available this April, it will signal a bit of a coming out party for the quiet Open Cluster Group (OCG), an organization of scientists dedicated to make clustering easier for developers. This is because the MSC.Linux V2001 beta has been […]

IBM Corp. continued securing support for its eServer zSeries Thursday by running e-business software giant SAP AG’s platform on its Linux-supported database. The firms believe that by offering mySAP.com on both Linux and z/OS on the zSeries platform, they will offer customers greater flexibility to choose the application server climate that is right for them, […]

3Com Corp. Wednesday accompanied news of its horrific revenues slide with the announcement that it will stop making its Audrey Web surfing appliance and Internet radio Kerbango this June. For now, that means 3Com will focus on streamlining its broadband modem business despite the fact that it was hit hard; this business, which provides high-speed […]

Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday agreed to implant Inktomi Corp.’s caching and media distribution software platforms into its content-networking server appliances. Specifically, the companies will fit Compaq TaskSmart C-Series content acceleration appliances with Inktomi Traffic Server network caching software and Inktomi MediaBridge media distribution software. Michael Hoch, senior analyst of Internet infrastructure at Aberdeen Group, said […]

SafariDog Inc. Tuesday rolled out an application geared to trim server and cost requirements for companies and consumers who covet streaming television and radio. The company’s Hybrid Media Delivery System detects users’ connection speeds; if a consumer is using broadband, Hybrid smartly adjusts to that, eliminating streaming media nodes. For dial-up users, a traditional streaming […]

When Microsoft Corp. Monday unveiled its first software-as-a-service set to a crowd of analysts and reporters, its very description drew immediate comparisons to the cross-platform interoperability of Sun Microsystem Inc.’s Java or to AOL. But even the most bullish observers believe that becoming king-of-the-hill in the service providing field will be a difficult task for […]