Clint Boulton

IBM has plucked top talent from its server system unit to meet shifts in the high-tech market, thanks in part to the company’s results in the recent quarter. A company spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail today that former pSeries Unix server manager Adalio Sanchez will become the general manager of a new organization called Technology […]

E*Trade Financial Corp. is reaching out to customers who may be leery of online banking and investing, promising them full coverage in the event their personal information is used for fraud. Online scammers rob Americans millions each year, according to information corralled by the Federal Trade Commission and security-oriented groups. Moreover, the recent rash of […]

Cingular today introduced a new smartphone, the first such gadget to be powered by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. Equipped with Bluetooth wireless support, quad-band international roaming and support for the EDGE wireless data network, the Cingular 2125 Smartphone is being marketed as a business-to-business communications device for mobile employees on the go. […]

Top hard drive maker Seagate Technology said it has begun shipping the first 2.5-inch notebook PC disk drive built on the new perpendicular recording technology. The Momentus family of drives can pipe up to 160GB of capacity to satisfy system builders looking to pack more performance in smaller notebooks. This push stems from the increase […]

Google said today it has offered to acquire digital radio advertising provider dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million in cash. In other terms of the deal, Google must make additional cash payments if certain product integration, net revenue and advertising inventory targets are met over the next three years. The maximum amount of potential payments is […]

Microsoft today waged a new assault on long-time rival IBM, offering a suite of free tools to help businesses move data from their Lotus Notes/Domino software to Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. Microsoft’s move is designed to lure customers from Lotus to its SharePoint suite, both of which are popular products in a multi-billion-dollar collaboration software market […]

Citing lower sales in the U.S. and China, Lucent Technologies lowered its guidance for the year, anticipating annual revenues will be either flat or will rise in the low single digits. The Murray Hill, N.J.-based networking gear vendor said it expects revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2006 to be about $2.05 billion, significantly […]

UPDATED: Borland is set to announce its formal entrance into the IT management and governance space, just months after acquiring Legadero for that purpose, internetnews.com has learned. The software development company has set late January for the launch of its solution, according to details in an e-mail by Borland’s public relations, which was obtained by […]

From afar, IBM’s purchases of entity analytics player SRD Software, portal connector Bowstreet and a raft of other small software companies might reek of a company plugging cavities with high-tech fillings. But look closely and you can see the buys as part of IBM’s master plan to corral the nascent information-as-a-service market. The man behind […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into IBM’s first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official, IBM confirmed. The systems vendor said that it has received notice of a formal, nonpublic investigation by the SEC concerning IBM’s disclosures relating to the Q1 earnings and expensing of stock options compensation. IBM said it will continue to cooperate […]

Mozilla Corp. today launched Thunderbird 1.5, an open source alternative to proprietary e-mail software such as Microsoft Outlook, Qualcomm Eudora and IBM Lotus Notes. Version 1.5 features several utilities to improve user productivity. But the most significant tool, according to Thunderbird project leader Scott MacGregor, is a new software update tool that automatically downloads feature […]

Oracle today unveiled SOA Suite to help customers integrate legacy and modern applications, cobbled together from homegrown software and infrastructure products acquired through company purchases. The service-oriented architecture suite for distributed computing is designed to let customers blend new and old software so they don’t have to “rip and replace” existing infrastructure. Oracle said in […]