Clint Boulton

Inktomi Corp. was busy Wednesday playing host to three diverse deals. Perhaps most important was its Search Everywhere play, which is an aim to deliver the a suite of search solutions to corporate and wireless customers. The initiative aims to remove critical barriers between previously isolated intranet, extranet, site and Web search applications. Specifically, it […]

With an eye toward securing the standards employed in its product line, IntraNet Solutions® Inc. Tuesday joined the Organization for Structured Information Standards. OASIS, the world’s largest Extensible Markup Language (XML) interoperability consortium, fights for industry standards to make it easier for firms to conduct business online. Essentially, it lobbies for businesses to use XML, […]

A few hours after it pledged to overhaul its business plan to compensate for network outages and dismal sales, ICG Communications Inc. accepted the resignations from three key executives. Quitting without explanation were Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Carl E. Vogel and fellow board members Gary S. Howard and Thomas O. Hicks, the firm announced […]

Looking to fine tune its alliances in a different market segment, Intranets.com sealed partnerships Monday with a telecommunications provider and Web hosting firm. Though financial terms of the deal were not made public, broadband e2e and application service provider Hostcentric Inc. will both employ Intranets.com’s enterprise service for their clients. Intranets.com, which brings document sharing, […]

Zucotto Wireless Inc. Monday came through with two product developments — the Jacknife™ development suite and the Xpresso™ processor — to better harness multimedia and wireless applications. Jacknife is a set of software- and hardware-based tools that enable programmers to develop, integrate, and test advanced wireless Java device applications and services, and bring them to […]

With the help of network superpower Cisco Systems Inc., Net2Phone Inc. Monday formed a new company to develop and market network management software for Internet telephony. Cisco, who will lend its hardware to Net2Phone new venture, purchased a minority interest in Adir Technologies Inc., which was created to offer Net2Phone’s VoIP software to all types […]

Already a transportation firm that employs a fair share of technology to get things from point A to point B, Landstar System Inc. Friday tapped AT&T Wireless Services for wireless Internet phone service to their intranet. Through AT&T’s Digital PocketNet service, Landstar’s 7,100 business capacity owners, independent contractors who supply the company with the equipment […]

Register.com Inc. Friday bulked up its registrar service by acquiring domain name reseller Afternic.com for about $49.4 million in stock and cash. Register.com will issue 4.38 million shares of common stock and pay $10 million in cash. The sum of the transaction, which should close today, is derived from register.com’s stock price of $9 per […]

Vignette Corp. scored a major coup over its e-business competitors Thursday by signing on to ennervate Verizon Communications Inc.’s new corporate intranet. Financial terms were not made public. The huge firm, formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., chose Vignette’s V/5 e-business Application Platform™ for its ability to consolidate several hundred existing […]

In its most significant play to date, e-security giant Baltimore Technologies scooped up Content Technologies Holdings Limited for $992 million in stock. Baltimore will dish out 91 million common shares for Content Technologies’, whose claim to security fame comes from its MIMEsweeper range of products. Baltimore’s clients should theoretically be able to quash any e-mail […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday trumpeted a few deals, the most important of which is perhaps the roll out of its new operating system for home PC users. Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition, more cutely known as Windows Me, delivers technology advancements in the areas of PC health, digital media, home networking and the online experience. Some new […]

Baltimore Technologies scored a winning run Wednesday when IBM Corp. added the security firm to its e-commerce portfolio. Financial terms were not made public. A major player in the e-business services market, Big Blue’s global services unit plans to offer integration services to support the Baltimore UniCERT certificate management system and Telepathy wireless e-security solutions. […]