Clint Boulton

Nokia Networks Thursday added electronic intelligence specialist SAS Institute to its extensive list of WAP-enabled clients. For SAS, the agreement will help the firm speed up mobile deployment of its solutions on Nokia’s vaunted WAP server. Wireless Application Protocol has become the darling of mobile users in the past year or so: It is the […]

OpenTV Thursday said it recently filed an application to broaden the scope of one of its patents to include “one-click,” or single interaction shopping — a technology popularized by Amazon.com Inc. OpenTV, who filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Sept. 27, said in a statement Thursday that its own U.S. patent 5,819,034, “describes […]

TIBCO Software Inc. brought its real-time integration to BroadVision Inc. Wednesday and the firms bundled products. Under the multi-year agreement, the companies will collaborate on marketing, product and business development, and sales activities on a worldwide basis. Financial terms were not made public. Based on the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise product suite, the BroadVision Integration Packs will […]

The government moved will beef up its intranet content provisions as a result of a partnership between IntraNet Solutions Inc. and content integrator Synetics. Under the agreement, Synetics will integrate and market IntraNet Solutions’ business Web content management products, including the flagship Xpedio*$153; system, for the government sector in the United States. In turn, Synetics […]

Echoing the predictions of other competitors in the PC arena, Dell Wednesday admitted that sales have slackened a bit and were not where they projected them to be. Although the company remains optimistic about its profitability outlook for the third quarter, Dell acknowledged that European demand has been slow and that worldwide, small business sales […]

A month after shelling out almost a billion dollars for large security firm Content Technologies, Baltimore Technologies Wednesday seized the much smaller Nevex Software Technologies Inc. in a stock deal worth $42 million. Baltimore forked over 4.2 million shares for Canada-based Nevex, an innovator in authorization technology for secure e-business. Baltimore inked the deal to […]

Netscape Communications Corp. Wednesday said it will stick with the popular Google search engine, extending its partnership. Financial terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed, but Google Inc. will support the AOL subsidiary’s Open Directory Project, which boasts more than 2 million sites in more than 320,000 categories. Netscape.com first chose Google as its […]

Broadband specialist Teligent Tuesday evening grabbed a teleconferencing service provider with next generation online audio and video capabilities for $74 million in stock and cash. Teligent, once the source of merger rumors with the down-and-out ICG Communications, bought Executive Conference Inc. with an undisclosed additional earnout payment based on ECI’s future performance. Teligent will quickly […]

NextPage Inc. Tuesday bundled its peer-to-peer content technology to Interwoven’s enterprise management platform to service giant bank ABN AMRO. ABN AMRO said it would first put the solution to use by providing internal content to 19,000 North American employees. With the NextPage™-Interwoven solution, employees can access bank policy and procedures manuals, management reports and marketing […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will close the doors of DeepCanyon, its Internet marketing resource subsidiary this Thursday. As a result, 35 people will lose the positions at the giant firm. However, HP spokesman Dave Berman said the employees were informed ahead of time. “Most of them have identified job opportunities in the Seattle area,” Berman […]

Gearing up for what most analysts have predicted to be record-shattering e-commerce sales for the holidays, Electronic Data Systems Tuesday waged a full-on treatment of digital Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services — inking seven strategic alliances to power them. Rolling out the solutions from the Electronic Commerce World Conference in Orlando, Fla., EDS said it […]

A study released by Dataquest Tuesday found that firms will have spent $3.2 billion on security software by the end of the year — a 22-percent increase over the $2.5 billion spent in 1999. What’s more, the market is projected to grow at a compound growth rate of 21.7 percent through 2004, with revenues topping […]