Colin C. Haley

CommercialWare is readying a Web services offering to allow retailers to better share information and collaborate with partners and suppliers. Over the next two months, the product will be tested with existing customers, with general availability by December, according to Jane Cannon, vice president of research and development for the Natick, Mass., firm. “CommercialWare charges […]

To followers of technology news, these headlines may look familiar: Akamai Sues Cable & Wireless Over Patents; Cable & Wireless Sues Akamai Over Patents; Akamai Claims Victory in Patent Suit; Cable & Wireless Claims Victory in Wireless Suit. That’s because for more than two years, the companies have been locked in a complicated and contentious […]

A host of players including advertisers, carriers, investors and wireless startups, are moving to capitalize on the ubiquity of mobile phones, saying the new channel offers a direct, personal and interactive link to potential customers. “As a channel, mobile marketing’s time has come,” venture capitalist Joel Cutler told boston.internet.com. Cutler’s firm, General Catalyst Partners recently […]

After a slow summer, acquisition-wise, TMP Worldwide is on the move again. Today, in a bid for new visitors and advertisers, the New York firm snapped up privately held Moving.com for $7.35 million in cash and stock. Moving.com, also based in Gotham, will be merged with Monstermoving.com, the relocation service of Maynard, Mass., career site […]

Technophiles anxious to be among the first to own Segway‘s Human Transport scooter were alarmed by an e-mail from e-commerce giant Amazon yesterday. “We’ve recently learned from our supplier that the item you requested to be notified about, Segway Human Transporter (also known as “Ginger” or “IT”), will not be available in the foreseeable future,” […]

Internet investor CMGI has bailed out of managed hosting firm NaviSite , just two days after selling its stake in another once-promising investment, online ad subsidiary Engage. The buyer of CMGI’s 76 percent position is ClearBlue Technologies (CBT), a privately held managed services outsourcer. San Francisco’s CBT added another 3 percent by buying out Hewlett-Packard […]

Think of CMGI and Engage as the New England Patriots and erstwhile quarterback Drew Bledsoe. During the go-go ’90s, the Internet operating company couldn’t be happier with the results the online ad firm produced. Accordingly, it invested millions in the star roster player, eventually gobbling up a 76 percent stake. But when the IT market […]

A federal judge in Boston has ordered Cable & Wireless to stop using Internet content delivery network technology (CDN) that infringes on patents held by Akamai . Akamai hailed the injunction as a “major victory” while C&W shrugged it off, saying it no longer uses the technology in question. “We will now turn our attention […]

To conserve cash, online directory provider Switchboard has amended its content deal with Internet services provider America Online. Recasting the agreement, originally inked in December 2000, will save Switchboard $12 million in payments to AOL, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In exchange, AOL, part of New York media conglomerate AOL […]

When Novell bought SilverStream Software, some analysts thought it might be too late to wrest Web services business from BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. And though it’s too soon to say whether $212 million wager will pay off, it’s clear that CEO Jack Messman is happy to be in the Web services game, […]

To improve efficiency and save money, European financial service firms and telecoms will be early adopters of Web services, implementing the technology en masse by 2004, according to a new report from The Yankee Group. Other sectors, such as retail, manufacturering, hospitality, media and government will follow by the end of 2005. While Web services […]

With a previous two-week extension about to expire, Genuity will pay its bank creditors $50 million for an additional month’s grace. The Woburn, Mass., provider of Internet protocol neworking services needs to resolve a $2 billion credit line from a consortium of banks and a $1.15 billion loan from Verizon Communications to avoid bankruptcy. In […]