Clint Boulton

Software virtualization, which allows customers to run multiple versions of software on a single computer to save space and cut costs, is getting a big dust-up this week. VMware, Cassatt and Surgient announced new products or partnerships to fortify their positions in this multi-billion-dollar market. VMware said today it has combined two core virtualization tools […]

Online payment specialist PayPal agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle two class-action suits and pledged to better explain how it protects users’ financial data. PayPal, a unit of eBay since 2002, said in a statement it reached a preliminary settlement deal to pay customers $3.5 million in a class-action suit filed in U.S. District […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Remember, remember the month of September. That could be the theme for high-tech events in New York City in 2006, as officials from HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell and Oracle all traveled to New York to tout new wares and curry the favor of east coast press and analysts. HP unveiled new PCs and […]

NEW YORK — A company that enjoys a quarter as strong as the one Oracle  just announced may be able to toot its own horn. But it can’t rest on its laurels. Oracle, which already owns one of the deepest security software stacks in the high-tech sector, said it plans to make additional investments in […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today published documents to help developers create Web sites that are more easily accessible for people with disabilities. People with disabilities, such as blindness or deafness, rely on assistive technologies, such as speech dictation software, screen readers and on-screen keyboards to access the Web. These tools require information about […]

Anxious to improve on its status as a contender in the market for high-end storage systems in the U.S., Fujitsu Computer Systems today unveiled the first storage servers to offer encryption technology. The Eternus 8000 and Eternus 4000 come with an emphasis on security, automatically storing data using standard 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)  technology. […]

Oracle  today said it has completed work on Virtual PBX, one of the core communications applications of the company’s Service Delivery Platform (Oracle SDP). The Oracle SDP is a middleware platform for delivering network services for telecommunications operators and service providers. SDP supports SIP , SIP servlets and Parlay/Parlay X. Tailored for any size business, […]

Thanks to the ongoing war between Google , Yahoo  and Microsoft , search is becoming a technology juggernaut few can ignore. With investors and analysts wrapped up in that three-horse race, the value of finding and cataloging information at the corporate level sometimes goes unnoticed. But what about navigating the terabytes of IT data logged […]

Another domino has tumbled in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) price-fixing scheme. The Department of Justice (DoJ) this week said an executive from Samsung Semiconductor pled guilty and will go to jail for joining a global conspiracy to fix DRAM prices. Thomas Quinn of San Jose, Calif., agreed to serve eight months in prison […]

Need a mainframe computer for storage to back up mounds of data from sites all over the world at high speeds? IBM claims it has the answer. Looking to make more inroads in to prop up the tape storage market at a time when disk-based storage is gaining in popularity, IBM  today revealed the IBM […]

UPDATED: Exploding laptops, delayed financials, and delayed desktops: Dell  has seen better days. The computer maker today said it received a delisting warning from the Nasdaq stock market last Friday because it missed its second quarter earnings filing. Dell, whose founder and chairman Michael Dell said at a technology launch last Tuesday that he expected […]

NEW YORK — The computing resources that make the bedrock of IT will be virtualized over the next five years to alleviate the tangled Web of complexity in data centers. Virtualization, in which software on physical machines is split up to act as several physical machines, is showing up in processors, storage, networks, applications and […]