Clint Boulton

Hummingbird Ltd. Wednesday unveiled a new suite that will enable users to perform a variety of functions within a central platform. The suite will enable users to perform collaborative tasks such as checking a business intelligence report into the document management system and building document binders for information delivery without having to enter a specific […]

Not even one of the most successful e-commerce sites around could save Living.com, which this week laid off all 275 of its employees. The Amazon.com-backed online furniture store closed its doors Tuesday despite being highly-regarded for its products and service. The drying up of venture capital, which the e-commerce sector has suffered the last several […]

Nortel Networks Corp. Tuesday fired the latest round in the acquisition war with the purchase of privately-held Sonoma Systems for $540 million in stock. Based on a $78.13 price per Nortel common share, the transaction would result in Nortel issuing approximately 6.9 million common shares for the shares of Sonoma Systems. An estimated $480 million […]

IntraNet Solutions Inc. Monday rolled out the latest version of its Xpedio Content Management system with enhanced security and business personalization features for B2B and B2E customers. Xpedio 4.0 is designed to meet businesses’ growing demand for the ability to contribute, manage, publish and personalize content for business Web sites more efficiently. The latest suite […]

Open source leader Red Hat today announced it will acquire privately-held C2Net Software for about $42 million in stock. Red Hat will issue 1,992,883 shares of common stock in exchange for all of the outstanding securities of Oakland, Calif.-based C2Net. The transaction will be valued based on an average closing price of Red Hat’s common […]

A few hours after Adobe Systems Inc. sued Macromedia Inc. for patent infringement, the smaller rival issued a statement refuting the central issues. The third largest U.S. software maker filed the suit Thursday afternoon in the U.S. District Court of Delaware against Macromedia for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,546,528, granted in 1996. This covers […]

E-commerce portal specialist Epicentric Inc. Friday teamed with intranet application provider Open Text Corp. Through this deal, clients will have access to Open Text’s Livelink suite through Epicentric’s portal network. This new feature, the Epicentric Portal Server, enables any end user to create and publish a portal directly from a Web browser. Users may quickly […]

Banking on the theory that the growth of online businesses will continue, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Vignette Corp. Thursday launched a global e-commerce initiative to equip new firms with the latest hardware and software solutions. The companies said great customer demand for cutting edge solutions, particularly in new media and the wireless telecommunications sector, precipitated […]

Content integrator Enterworks Inc. and business software provider Sequoia Software Wednesday joined forces to create a portal solution. The application is based on Sequoia’s XML Portal Server and Enterworks’ Content Integrator, which can support numerous business activities. Sequoia released XPS version 3.0 last June. The program provides personalized content delivery on browsers or any wireless […]

Two weeks after the People for Internet Responsibility took aim at the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers for its board selection criteria, another organization has surfaced to question the qualifications of the nominees. The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Tuesday went as far as to say that only seven of the 18 nominees […]

IntraNet Solutions Inc. continued its torrid string of partnerships Tuesday by inking a marketing and integration deal with e-commerce portal specialist Netegrity Inc. No financial details were revealed, but IntraNet Solutions’ will blend its Xpedio Content Management System with Netegrity’s SiteMinder portal management solution to provide a secure Web content management solution for marketplaces and […]

Struggling to put out a browser that will help it regain lost market share, Netscape Communications Tuesday launched the latest beta version of the Netscape 6 browser sporting a number of new features. Available via free download, Preview Release 2 is a follow-up to the first release, launched in April. That version first showcased Netscape’s […]