Clint Boulton

In a testament to crawling semiconductor sales, Motorola Inc. Thursday said it will not achieve its earlier guidance for sales and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2000. Overall, operating profits will not meet earlier estimates in the semiconductor and personal communications, or cell phone, segments. The firm said it overshot the demand for semiconductors. […]

Online proofing firm Tribal DDB Canada Wednesday enlisted NetNation Communications Inc. and Stormix Technologies Inc. to manufacture an intranet for its internal and client communications. Financial terms were not disclosed. NetNation, a hosting company, domain name registrar and application service provider all rolled in to one, and network Linux provider Stormix, erected a Web-based solution […]

Most insiders agree the browser war between Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Inc. was over a couple years ago, but to hear Opera Software’s rave about its newly-released Opera 5.0 for Windows, you’d swear they were still in the thick of things. It’s all part of a new advertising blitzkrieg. Opera’s angle is that 5.0 […]

While Sony is scrambling to put together enough PlayStation 2s to satiate hungry gamers and Microsoft is developing new titles for the same crowd, Sega.com is looking to bolster its services in a different realm: family entertainment. As an indication that the PC gaming and console leader has faced serious affronts to its Dreamcast videogame […]

Software maker Inktomi Corp. Tuesday released the latest version of its Traffic Server®, but with a twist — the revised caching product supports the much ballyhooed Linux operating system. The original product, licensed by such clients such as America Online Inc., Excite@Home and Merrill Lynch, was designed to reduce massive congestion over the Internet and […]

Fatbrain.com Tuesday agreed to create an online bookstore for Eastman Chemical Co.’s 15,000 employees. FinditNow® is tailored for Eastman, a manufacturing and marketing leader of plastics, chemicals and fibers, and will be the primary online book vendor on that company’s intranet. The bookstore provides access to a comprehensive catalog of pertinent professional information, including books […]

Adding to its arsenal of games developers, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday hammered out a deal to buy Austin, Texas-based Digital Anvil Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The software giant will gain the rights to such titles as “FreeLancer,” the highly anticipated space-combat simulation game, as well as a yet-to-be-announced title currently in development for the Xbox™ […]

Shoppers in the Big Apple are being offered a chance to have a digital photo taken with Santa in a promotion from Yahoo! Shopping, Macy’s and EarthCam that lets consumers send the pictures to friends and family over the Internet. The promotion is called “Yahoo! Shopping on 34th Street,” featuring an interactive showcase located in […]

Intranets.com Monday signed on LocalBusiness.com as its latest major partner to license free intranet solutions before the Christmas holiday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Small business application and service provider LocalBusiness.com will offer its small business users with free, co-branded intranet solutions beginning in the next two weeks. The free service will […]

Stressing a commitment to open standards, Sun Microsystems Inc. descended on the XML 2000 conference in Washington Monday with a couple of Web development announcements. Sun lifted the curtain on two Java application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) — the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) and the Java API for […]

A note posted on CMGion’s Tribal Voice site said the company will discontinue the popular PowWow instant messaging service and America Online Inc. seems to be the blame.. Used by such Internet Service providers as AT&T WorldNet and U.K.’s Freeserve Plc, the service will be killed Jan. 19, 2001. CMGion officials did not return phone […]

Less than a week after unveiling lower-than-expected revenues for 2001, online financial services provider Netzee Inc. accepted resignations from President and General Manager Catherine Silver and Director of Marketing Paul Golden. Chief Executive Officer Donny R. Jackson will assume Silver’s duties and Compass Bank’s Dan Anderson will be put in place as a senior vice […]