Clint Boulton

3Com Corp. Wednesday put the finishing touches on a virtual private network that will be rolled out by digital subscriber line providers and christened the new product by signing up Copper Mountain to be its first client. The VPN over DSL solution from 3Com Carrier Networks Business integrates the IP services of the infrastructure provider’s […]

Software maker Mindbridge.com Tuesday offered its intranet platform to a provider of wilderness courses that wants to make its employees more productive. For an undisclosed fee, North Carolina Outward Bound, which offers courses in mountaineering, backpacking, whitewater canoeing, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, mountain biking and sea kayaking, agreed to use Mindbridge.com’s IntraSmart product as the […]

Looking to find placement for its content overseas, Playboy.com Inc. this week teamed with FOCUS Digital AG to form a a joint venture in Germany, making it the first international play for the Internet medium of Hugh Hefner’s long legacy. Playboy.de, with an assortment of engaging articles and pictorials, will target the entertainment and lifestyle […]

Two weeks after Internet holding firm Sitestar withdrew its bid to acquire MotherNature.com Inc., the online healthstore folded Tuesday. The troubled company’s board has called for a special meeting of shareholders, to be held on Nov. 30, 2000, to approve the plan to liquidate the firm, which estimates assets available for distribution to shareholders will […]

Bellwether technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. lifted the curtain on its first quarter earnings Monday afternoon, revealing that the company reached revenues of $6.52 billion — a 66 percent increase over revenues for the same period the previous year. Pro forma net income was $1.36 billion or 18 cents per share for the first quarter […]

In a pure networking play, Broadcom Corp. Monday bought chipmaker SiByte Inc. for $2.07 billion. The silicon solutions provider for broadband communications, nabbed SiByte for its high-performance network processors, which it hopes will complement Broadcom’s Internet Protocol (IP) switches, communications DigitalSignal Processors, IP security solutions and physical layer transmission products. Once integrated with Broadcom, SiByte’s […]

Seeking to address the needs of wireless operators, infrastructure software provider Portal Software Inc. Friday picked up privately-held SOLUTION42 for about $290 million in stock. Portal Software offered 7.5 million shares of common stock for the Germany-based wireless voice solution specialist. The transaction will be accounted for as a purchase. At the crux of the […]

Intranets.com, a privately held Woburn company that offers free intranet portals to businesses, ended months of anticipation by opening its doors in Europe Wednesday after partnering with GTS Systems and Virginbiz.net. Intranets.com, which provides free intranets for more than 325,000 organizations, most in the United States and Japan, will let Virginbiz.net and GTS Systems customize […]

For a business that seemed to be on its deathbed in August, drkoop.com Inc. showed signs of making a full recovery Thursday by scooping up community site drDrew.com for about $1.4 million in stock and cash. drkoop.com acquired all drDrew.com assets from Sherwood Partners Inc., a corporate restructuring firm, for 1.58 million shares of common […]

Spurring on its growth for Internet and telephony-based voice systems, IBM Tuesday rolled out a $10 million partner accelerator initiative for voice applications. The strategy, with 110 partners and affiliates taking part, builds on Big Blue’s Websphere Voice Server initiative brought to the table in June. The play will help partners develop and deliver voice […]

King bank Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. Monday chose Interwoven Inc.’s content management standard for its global intranet. Financial terms were not made public. Designed to link 25,000 employees, the intranet, or SchWEB as its called, will be monitored by Interwoven’s TeamSite software to empower approximately 1,000 content contributors across all of Schwab’s business units […]

While folks at Microsoft Corp. are working feverishly to figure out how hackers hooked into its corporate network and viewed bits of its software’s source code, officials at the giant firm said Friday that government authorities are doing their part by trying to track the perpetrator down. Microsoft’s International Public Relations Manager Ricardo Adame echoed […]