Clint Boulton

IBM Monday became one of the largest firms to tackle the task of translating languages for global Web communication with the launch of its WebSphere Translation Server. Known as machine translation, an elementary use occurs when a user goes to a search engine such as AltaVista, types in say, “friend,” and requests its proper translation […]

Inktomi Corp. Friday took on the billing, settlement and traffic reporting elements of Adero Inc. for $23.5 million in cash. With the acquisitions, Inktomi will now spearhead the Content Bridge alliance, initially founded by Adero, Digital Island, Exodus Communications, Genuity, Madge.web, Mirror Image Internet and NetRail to promote cross-network content distribution and speed data from […]

SonyStyle.com will relaunch its Musiclub gateway, the electronics giant’s consumer gateway to digital music, news and products. Launching at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Saturday, Musiclub will feature more music downloads, up-to-date music news, reviews and artist coverage, as well as the most current information on Sony’s portable digital music products and software. […]

CAT Technology Inc. Thursday decided to cater to the streaming media needs of enterprises by partnering with intranet-based streaming media specialist Digital Pipe Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A managed services provider, CAT will meld its complete Internet operations offering with Digital Pipe’s intranet content delivery network (iCDN) solution, offering customers content […]

Two top mobile solution firms partnered Thursday as Sprint PCS and Palm Inc. agreed to market and sell wireless solutions for handhelds using a co-branded version of the MyPalm portal, which went live last week. Terms of the play were not made public. The deal pairs the ubiquitous voice and data wireless network of Sprint […]

IntraNet Solutions Inc. Wednesday enlisted the aid of three firms to add multilingual capabilities for its highly-touted Xpedio content management system. How much INRS will pay the firms for their combined services has not been disclosed. Joining INRS for the deal were infrastructure software provider GlobalSight, e-business specialist Uniscape and translation agency Worldlingo, all three […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled two Simple Object Access Protocol-crafted technologies to help developers build and use Web Services, which the software giant bills as “programmable building blocks” for the Internet. The first tool is the beta release of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit Version 2.0, which provides developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 with fast Web […]

In a legal battle bound to go deeper into the issues of defining spamming, Verio Inc. Wednesday said it has appealed a Dec. 8 U.S. District Court decision which prohibited the Web-hosting firm from using Register.com’s WHOIS database for marketing purposes. The appeal was filed Dec. 22 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

A few weeks after being issued a mandate to cease spamming people it allegedly learned about through Register.com’s WHOIS database, Verio Inc. fired back by accusing the registrar of violating an accreditation agreement it has with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Corp. Though the Web host has been ordered by a New […]

Wireless solution provider Mobilize Inc. was tabbed Tuesday to deploy its Mobilize Web application for the Corporate and Federal Markets organization of information sharing firm Lexis-Nexis Group. Terms of the deal were not made public. Lexis-Nexis Corporate and Federal Markets will use portable intranet Mobilize Web, which enables a company’s mobile workers and partners to […]

Access for the leading personal digital assistant got a little more convenient this week as Palm Inc. slipped its long-awaited MyPalm portal release in after Christmas and before the new year. MyPalm is a personal information service accessible through a downloadable Web clipping application, which is formatted with handheld screens in mind. The portal lets […]

Citing a slowdown in the Internet economy, security firm Network Associates Inc. reported a $120-million revenue shortfall Tuesday and senior management changes after the market closed. The firm expects losses ranging from $130 to $140 million compared to earnings of $55 to $65 million for the fourth quarter of 2000. For the entire year of […]