Clint Boulton

In addition to weighing in on the west coast with a new digital TV program, Microsoft made noise in the United Kingdom Monday when it said Webcasting host MediaWave Inc. has deployed 3,100 Windows 2000 servers across its content delivery network. Revealed at MIDEM 2001, the international music market, the deployment represents one of the […]

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — When the national CyberCrime 2001 symposium commenced Sunday afternoon with Microsoft Corp.’s Corporate Security Officer Howard A. Schmidt anchoring the keynote slot, it quickly became apparent that IT’s consensus belief is that people with Internet businesses are ready for the basics of security — and that’s it. Unlike say, a highly technical […]

In an effort to kick start the digital TV market, Microsoft Corp. Monday said it was offering developers the chance to test enhanced content on Motorola Inc. set-top boxes through a new TV Content Builder Initiative (CBI). Announced at the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) 2001 Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., the strategy […]

Less than two weeks before The Game known as the Super Bowl, EA.com Thursday scored on a licensing agreement with the National Football League. EA.com, the online entertainment destination and division of video game publisher Electronic Arts, will have rights to use NFL teams, uniforms, and logos in a variety of exclusive online games. Financial […]

A little more than a week after it watched its skipper flee and swept plans to merge with SierraCities.com under the carpet, VerticalNet Inc. Thursday joined the scads of firms opting to lay off workers and reorganize their businesses. The vertical market provider gave pink slips to approximately 150 employees, or 8.3 percent of its […]

Despite reporting record fourth-quarter results that met analysts expectations, e-commerce software maker Vignette Corp. Thursday said it anticipates lower results in 2001, which will lead to about 300 job cuts and facility consolidation. Once a darling for analysts in the industry, Vignette said it expects to earn a penny a share in the first quarter […]

McAfee Wednesday rolled out a new anti-virus appliance built for small- and medium-sized businesses that is capable of protecting a network of up to 2,000 users. The WebShield e50 appliance is a firewall-independent scanner that combines hardware with McAfee’s widely-used anti-virus software, easily plugging into virtually any existing network of up to 2,000 users. WebShield […]

A day before it announces highly-anticipated earnings, hardware giant Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday drew the curtain on its server appliance strategy with some new products for the IT sector, including a sub-$1,000 server. Promising the same bang for fewer bucks, the Netra X1 server starts at a very attractive $995. The Netra line is also […]

In what can be seen as a coup in the digital music space, AOL Time Warner Inc. Wednesday said it lured former BMG Entertainment executive Kevin Conroy to the newly-created position of head of its digital music division. Conroy, who left BMG a week ago, will lead AOL Music’s strategy, which includes including the company’s […]

Web host Verio Inc. Tuesday made its Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting product ready-to-use on Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Operating Environment. In a kind of two-for-the-price-of-one play, the NTT Communications subsidiary hopes its revamped VPS solution will provide the functionality of a dedicated server at a price comparable to most shared server environments. Solaris, a Sun […]

IBM Corp. Friday will roll out the latest trick in its Linux affinity bag with its AIX Toolkit for Linux applications. The toolkit enables developers to build and package Linux applications for use on the IBM eServer family running AIX, IBM’s heralded UNIX operating system. Although the AIX toolkit for Linux apps offers a fairly […]

EMusic.com Inc. Friday fired 36 percent of its staff and announced the departure of three executives, effectively joining the legion of music download sites who say they need to restructure in the face of cash shortages. The downloadable music seller let 66 people across all of its departments in an attempt to stop the fiscal […]