Clint Boulton

In a day that has left some hawkeyes holding their breath on the hot topic of Oracle Corp.’s second quarter earnings, the tech giant outdid analysts estimates by posting a net income of $623 million, or 11 cents per share. Consensus estimates pegged the tech giant’s net income at 10 cents per share. Oracle announced […]

In the midst of all of the holiday e-commerce bustle, giant portal Yahoo! Inc. also tended to the enterprise side of business by signing on Andersen Consulting to help deploy its corporate portals to small and large businesses. Andersen will license customized corporate portal solutions from Corporate Yahoo!™, launched last June. Based on the My […]

Some schools of logic dictate that promotions and advertising are all about mind games. Managed services provider First World Corp. has succeeded in blending a kind of goodwill game laced with a number of plugs for its own image with the creation of a game designed to alleviate stress in IT managers. Still in beta […]

In a scramble to maintain a path to profitability, fan club marketing firm PopMail.com Inc. Wednesday sold its high-end newsletter provider IZ.com to a management-led investor group called JBII for a $2.25 million promissory note. The protective measure follows last week’s reduction of expenses at its wholly-owned subsidiary PopMail Network, based in Irving, Texas. An […]

Synergistics Tuesday launched the fifth and newest version of its knowledge management portal for enterprises. The education solution provider’s Prevail™ Knowledge Manager is a Lotus Notes, Domino-based portal that conveniently helps companies find experts, practices and other data they need to determine answers to critical business questions. Rather than having to search on Epinions.com, or […]

The hip Generations X and Y magazine FEED this week unveiled a facelift on its Web site. The snarky magazine, which targets a more “Internet savvy” user with a melange of media, technology, pop culture, and arts, has introduced a redesign of the site replete with topic-based sections, better navigation and a “Who’s Better?” Poll. […]

In a case where a U.S. District Court is upholding a registrar’s right to protect people listed in its database, register.com Inc. won a preliminary injunction against Verio Inc. preventing the Web hosting company from mercilessly spamming its customers. Filed in the Southern District of New York August 3, register.com had accused Verio of assailing […]

Streaming media specialist Digital Pipe secured a high-profile partnership with Microsoft Corp. Monday when it agreed to integrate Windows Media Technologies into its nCORE video solution. Financials of the deal were not made public. Digital Pipe, which streams video content for intranets, hopes to improve the quality of its content with Microsoft’s multimedia solutions, courtesy […]

The e-commerce division of the Sun-Netscape Alliance will fire the newest salvo in the battle to produce the newest, catch-all solutions for an industry that is evolving according to customer demands and whims. iPlanetT E-Commerce Solutions will kick off its next-generation commerce platform, which includes buying, selling, billing, market making and trade facilitation software solutions […]

Another firm fell prey to the venture capital drought this week as virtual office provider HotOffice Technologies said it would close its doors soon. But rather than hang their heads and slink away without a whimper, the firm has taken steps to make sure its customers are not left in the lurch. Though HotOffice will […]

Amid revised fourth quarter estimates severely impacted by the drought in online advertising, Ask Jeeves Inc.’s Rob Wrubel stepped down Thursday as chief executive officer and board member. Current board member A. George Battle has signed on in the interim to replace Wrubel, who will move to the role of executive vice president of market […]

While some look to help the real estate sector ease into new millenium media, intranet content provider Digital Pipe Inc. has offered medical facilities a glimpse of the way healthcare training for employees could be handled in the future with their streaming media applications. What the company is doing, is targeting their technology to large […]