Clint Boulton

Every now and then a blizzard of controversy assails the virtues of the World Wide Web and its effects on the workforce. One that pops up from time to time is the propensity of employees surfing channels unrelated to their tasks at hand during office hours. When it involves pornography the solution is simple: workers […]

Acknowledging the future of IP telephony, a consortium led by AT&T and Yahoo! Inc. Friday took stakes totaling 37 percent in Net2Phone Inc. worth almost $1.6 billion. Joining AT&T will be British Telecom and Liberty Media. The AT&T-led group will purchase 4 million class A shares from Net2Phone (NTOP) at a price of $75 per […]

With job markets skyrocketing from the surge in Internet startups, plenty of dot-coms abound simply to fill positions. Anyone can hop online and type such destinations as Monster.com, HotJobs.com or kforce.com, which exist to help clients find work. The concept may be a watershed in terms of winning over people skeptical on the word “headhunter.” […]

America Online Inc. Thursday agreed to incorporate Myplay Inc.’s digital music application into its audio player and radio service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AOL’s Winamp player and Spinner radio users will have access to the newly co-branded digital locker, a feature of MyPlay which allows users to create and store their personal […]

Continuing its shopping spree of various Net companies, Cisco Systems Inc. Wednesday shelled out $800 million for privately-held Web content delivery provider SightPath Inc. The deal is a stock purchase that will be accounted for as a pooling if interests and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. For Cisco, which […]

BullSoft Tuesday rolled out improvements to its AccessMaster security software product line that gives organizations security tools to protect their enterprise applications. AccessMaster 5.2 security includes Web Single Sign-On (SSO) technology, which allows users to access many Web and enterprise applications with one log-on and one password. As a result, AccessMaster Web SSO software speeds […]

To accommodate the increasing number of online marketplaces, Nortel Networks Tuesday launched a unit that will offer B2B applications to enterprises and service providers. Called the Clarify E-Business Applications unit, it will help clients manage customer relationships and build virtual marketplaces. Nortel (NT) enlisted Andersen Consulting to deliver professional services to its clients. Nortel said […]

Yahoo! Inc. Tuesday began offering digital photo services with the help of Shutterfly Inc. Shutterfly, a digital photo firm chaired by Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications founder Jim Clark, will deliver quality prints for Yahoo! Photos. Visitors to this portal can get 35mm-quality prints from their online photos. Yahoo! (YHOO) most recent play comes at […]

Taking aim at the $800 billion global freight field, Hutchison Port Holdings and Oracle Corp. Monday created the the first worldwide online marketplace for the transportation services community. The Global Transport Exchange (GTX) is the new joint venture between Portsnportals.com, the e-commerce operations of HPH, and Oracle (ORCL). As part of the deal, Hutchison and […]

OpenTV grabbed Internet software maker Spyglass Inc. late Sunday in a stock exchange worth $2.5 billion. Spyglass stockholders will receive 0.7236 OpenTV series A common shares in exchange for a single share of Spyglass. The interactive TV firm, which specializes in set-top box software, said the deal will help traditional broadcasters add broadband and interactive […]

Swedish company Spray Market this week became the first known firm to register a domain name which resulted in a dispute of a country code top level domain. According to a complaint registered by Microsoft Corp. unit Expedia Inc. with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the online travel company is protesting the use of […]

Just a few days after launching a new B2B online marketplace, Yahoo! Inc. Thursday made an acquisition that will allow individuals to exchange electronic payments. The portal giant purchased e-billing firm Arthas.com Inc., which operates under the name dotBank.com. Arthas.com’s platform lets individuals electronically exchange money and pay bills online. All that is required is […]