Clint Boulton

In an effort to keep their clients in the know, software developer 724 Solutions Inc. Wednesday bought privately-held notification technology firm Spyonit.com Inc. for $53.4 million in stock and cash. 724 Solutions will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Spyonit.com in exchange for $2 million in cash and 1,041,616 of common stock. What the […]

Inktomi Corp. made a major play Wednesday by nabbing broadcasting software provider FastForward Networks for $1.3 billion in stock. Inktomi will trade 11.9 million shares of common stock for all outstanding shares, options and warrants of FastForward Networks. The sum of the deal is based on Inktomi’s Sept. 12 closing price of $111 per share. […]

Remedy Corp. Tuesday introduced its latest shot-in-the-arm for companies looking to speed their move to the Web with an application that adds new Web authoring capabilities and supports thousands of concurrent users through a single server. Remedy’s ARWeb® 4.0 provides access to applications across a company’s intranet or via the Internet, but more importantly it […]

IBM Corp. Tuesday inked the second deal in as many days to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of its server line by investing $200 million to compete in the database tools market. Focused specifically on managing data for its S/390 line, the four-year investment will help Big Blue acquire tools to help companies attack […]

E-commerce software provider Blue Martini Software Tuesday will partner with fellow e-commerce powerhouse Ariba Inc. to link manufacturers and distributors to marketplaces and buyers. Ariba will license its Marketplace Adapter, currently only deployed on Ariba’s® B2B Commerce Platform, for the Blue Martini Customer Interaction System to address a supplier’s need to promote and provide comprehensive […]

Seeking to repackage and revitalize its approach to selling high performance virtual private networks, chip manufacturer Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTL) today rolled out its latest suite that will enable clients to securely connect remote users to branch offices and business partners over the Internet. The new VPN devices are part of the growing Intel and NetStructure […]

IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) continued its hot hand of wheeling and dealing with today’s release of the world’s most powerful Unix cluster system dedicated to Web-based commerce. Dubbed “Blue Hammer,” IBM hopes the amped cluster will usher in a new era of manageability for commercial Unix systems, using IBM’s Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) — management […]

Internet video outfitter Virage Inc. Thursday licensed its indexing platform to Microsoft Corp.’s in-house production and archive group. Microsoft Studios has selected the Virage Internet Video Application platform to facilitate its video content via its intranet. Financial terms were not disclosed. One can imagine the colossal amount of content MS Studios — over one million […]

IBM Corp. will show that it is not messing around in the overwhelming tide of wireless growth this week at the DEMOmobile conference in Pasadena over the next few days. Big Blue figures to be a prominent player at the mobile party, where the giant will show off its latest PC division’s notebook line Thursday. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation scored a major coup in its defense of its Carnivore Net surveillance system when it secured Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as an ally late Wednesday. Carnivore is a software system the FBI can use to monitor Internet traffic and capture e-mail and other electronic communications from a criminal suspect — […]

The bell tolled long and hard Wednesday as Novell Inc. slashed approximately 900 positions from its workforce to cut costs and streamline its business. Post reduction, the number of employees worldwide will total approximately 4,600. The company is also writing off certain other assets, and anticipates taking a pre-tax restructuring charge of between $40 and […]

RSA Security Inc. Wednesday strayed from conformity by offering its watershed encryption algorithm to the public two weeks before the 17-year-old safe-guarding patent was due to expire. The RSA public key encryption algorithm — that’s “c = me mod n” to the mathematically inclined — is considered the standard for encryption and the core technology […]