Clint Boulton

The curtain may be falling on HD-DVD. Just days after a leading high-tech research firm declared Blu-ray the victor in the optical disc format war, Warner Bros. Entertainment Thursday said it would release movies in the Blu-ray format. Warner Bros., owned by Time Warner, said it will still support HD-DVD, which is backed by a […]

EMC agreed to acquire Captiva Software for $275 million, a buy that could help its customers turn paper-based information into digital documents. Captiva is a specialist in an emerging enterprise content management (ECM) niche called input management software, which turns paper into digital documents for distribution among computers. Captiva’s software digitally captures documents using scanners, […]

It’s a case of one fish, in the process of being devoured by a bigger fish, devouring a smaller fish. Macromedia, in the process of being acquired by rival Adobe , has purchased Mobile Innovation, which makes interfaces to improve the user experience of mobile devices like smartphones and handheld computers. Financial terms of the […]

Looking to bridge the gap between two competing optical disk standards, HP has asked the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to include two technologies already supported in HD-DVD in the Blu-ray format specification. Specifically, HP appealed to the group about Managed Copy and iHD, which it said will “address the fundamental technical needs of the PC […]

With longtime partner VMware by its side, IBM today unveiled a new software service that provisions desktop functionality to any PC from BladeCenter servers. IBM’s Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure uses a combination of VMware’s ESX Server virtualization software and Citrix Presentation Server client access software to provision computing chores from IBM’s BladeCenter system. The Citrix […]

Microsoft is offering upgrades to Exchange Server 2003 with a new software pack that stresses better mobile messaging, improved spam blockers and increased e-mail and mailbox storage capacity. New mobile messaging tools in the Exchange Server Service Pack 2 (SP2) will help hardware partners and content providers deliver a device that “meets the demands of […]

EMC today reported a third quarter profit of $422 million, thanks to a $106 million tax benefit and flourishing sales in the company’s mid-range systems, software and services. The Hopkinton, Mass., information management systems vendor said its Q3 revenue was $2.37 billion, or 17 percent higher than the $2.03 billion reported for the same quarter […]

IBM has acquired partner DataPower in a bid that will launch Big Blue into the application-oriented networking market Cisco was expecting to dominate. Cambridge, Mass.-based DataPower makes hardware appliances that integrate, accelerate and secure XML-based messages from computer to computer to improve transactions. This is an increasingly important function thanks to the proliferation of XML-based […]

While the hype of distributed computing may be waning, companies that pin their hopes on service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services continue to build upon their existing platforms. Azul Systems and Reactivity, vendors with very different approaches to the challenge of helping applications communicate across networks with great integrity, added new software functionality to their […]

Computer Associates International continued to stockpile its storage software portfolio, adding e-mail archiving specialist iLumin Software Services for an undisclosed sum. CA will tuck iLumin’s Assentor line, which helps customers address records management, discovery, litigation support and compliance for e-mail and instant messages on platforms, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise. CA […]

Sun Microsystems capped the upgrade of its Unix server line for the year, fitting the Sun Fire E20K and E25K machines with its dual-core UltraSparc IV+ chips. The Sun Fire E20K and E25K servers are Sun’s power machines, scaling up to 72 UltraSparc IV+ processors and executing up to 144 computing threads at once. The […]

GridApp Systems hopes its Clarity lasts longer than a moment. The three-year-old company has retrenched its Clarity line of database management software to erase many of the time-consuming maintenance tasks database administrators (DBA) face during the daily grind by automating those jobs, completing them and presenting them in single view. GridApp Founder and CEO Rob […]