Clint Boulton

Fresh off a week where stocks of Internet consulting firms were pummeled in the market, iXL Enterprises Inc. Tuesday announced that it was going to streamline its business and lay off employees. IXL Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bert Ellis said his firm, which expects revenue for the third quarter to be approximately 15 percent […]

In celebration of reaching its 300,000 registered sites milestone, free corporate site purveyor Intranets.com Tuesday served its clients a piece of memory cake. Launched in August of 1999, the steadily growing firm gave its customers 5 megabytes of extra free space, affording each site a total of 30 megabytes of online storage space, to show […]

Gearing up for a new era in mobile messaging, wireless communications guru Nokia Networks Friday introduced a new mobile chat application to allow mobile operators to offer new messaging services for their subscribers. Dubbed simply Nokia FriendsTalk, the tool offers discreet and instant communications tools by providing multipoint messaging, public and private channels and individual […]

While the tempestuous climate of e-commerce sees firms breaking apart more often then building out, Big Blue is experiencing the latter as Thursday IBM Corp. rolled out new software to deliver a personalized experience to Internet, intranet and extranet users. Part of the giant’s WebSphere e-commerce platform, initially launched in March, WebSphere Personalization aims to […]

Cisco Systems Inc. crept into Canada under the watch of rival Nortel Networks Thursday to snag a privately-held digital video specialist PixStream for $369 million in stock. The top dog of the network community, Cisco expects to seal the deal in the first quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2001. PixStream skill is in delivering hardware […]

DSL equipment provider Efficient Networks Inc. Wednesday will supply its SpeedStream DSL product line to private network service provider LMKI. SpeedStream products include easy-to-use modems, routers, and next-generation integrated access devices designed to provide the best installation and online experience available. As part of its business relationship with Efficient, LMKI will become a member of […]

Account aggregator VerticalOne Corp. cashed in Wednesday by inking deals with industry leaders Yahoo! Inc. and Wells Fargo Inc. Acknowledging the online banking niche as a space with great growth potential, the S1 Corp. subsidiary agreed to offer its account aggregation service to Yahoo!’s and Wells Fargo’s users. Financial terms were not disclosed. Using VerticalOne’s […]

Sprint Corp. Thursday introduced a convenience to its multi-million customer bank with an e-mail notification feature, which allows residential subscribers to view e-mail headers without having to go online. For $3.95 per month, Sprint’s new tool helps subscribers save time by checking up to five e-mail accounts from the eView 100 display device, a small […]

IntraNet Solutions Tuesday extended its tendrils into the printing arena by licensing its Web-based content management products to printing dynamo IKON Office Solutions. Although the firms claim the deal has multi-million dollar potential, initial terms of the deal were not made public. IntraNet Solutions’ product suite will be employed as the core architecture for IKON’s […]

Two rival virus protection firms arrived at conclusions to the same wireless bug Tuesday with the introduction of solutions to the Trojan Horse, known as “PalmOS/LibertyCrack.” McAfee appears to have beaten Trend Micro Inc. to the punch, announcing the availability of its VirusScan Wireless tool Monday night. Its competitor trumpeted its solutions a couple hours […]

Virtual private network purveyor VPNet Technologies Inc. Monday upgraded its prized line of VSU ™VPN gateways in response to demand for enhanced performance from service provider clients. Following the recent release of the VSU-100 small office VPN gateway, the VSU-2000, VSU-5000 and VSU-7500 models have been introduced to replace the VSU-1010E, VSU-1100 and VSU-1200 respectively. […]

Wireless startups got a pick-me-up Monday as eCompanies LLC and Sprint PCS Monday launched the industry’s first fully wireless incubator. The development represents the latest foray by Sprint PCS to kickstart development of the wireless Web. Last week, the wireless arm of the long distance giant announced wireless Web service targeting the business community to […]