Dan Muse

San Francisco-based software and platform provider Macromedia today announced an overhaul of its MX family with the release of its 2004 line. The new line — which includes enhanced versions of Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks — also marks the debut of Flash MX Professional 2004. In addition to spiffing up its product line, Macromedia is […]

In today’s business climate it’s important to know not only how you are perceived, but also how your competitors are perceived. Of course, quantifying your image is no small task. Enter Biz360, a company that specializes in market intelligence. More specifically, it help businesses gauge their media presence. To date, Biz360 has focused its efforts […]

From bustling business owners to bubbly pre-teens, everyone loves instant messaging (IM), but deep down you know it’s probably not an entirely secure form of communication. To help relieve those concerns, Zone Labs Inc., a company well-known for its security software, today announced the availability of IMsecure Pro. According to Zone Labs, IMsecure Pro ensures […]

Describing it as a “particularly resilient” segment of the optical networking market, research firm IDC reports that the worldwide Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) market posted a 25-percent revenue gain to reach $1.4 billion in 2002. The gain is particularly impressive, IDC notes, because the overall optical equipment market continues […]

In a move designed to target Fortune 1000 companies, Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) vendor UpShot Corp. announced today that it is adding a dashboard feature and integration with Lotus Notes. According to the company’s CEO, Keith Raffel, the two features are the most requested by its Fortune 1000 customers. The UpShot Dashboard, which is […]

Looking to provide its service provider customers with what it describes as a “sliding scale of tools,” Houston-based infrastructure software vendor BMC will announce Patrol Express 3.0 on Monday. The philosophy behind the newest version of its suite of system management tools, according to Jason Andrew, BMC’s director of product management and development for Patrol […]

While a multitude of Web-based applications targeted at small businesses have sprung up over the last couple of years, Intuit, the leader in small business accounting software, didn’t rush in to stake its claim. It didn’t need to. Its QuickBooks accounting package is as much a staple at small businesses as, well, Staples. Even without […]

Users of Web analytics applications must wonder what happens to those hot sales prospects lured in through online marketing campaigns. Customer relationship management (CRM) users, in turn, probably wonder how those prospects got there. In an attempt to tie together those two different parts of the marketing and sales process, WebSideStory, a San Diego-based ASP […]

The ‘C’ in CRM could stand for “change,” according to a new Aberdeen Group report on the customer relationship management (CRM) market. According to the Boston-based research firm, the market will grow at an annual rate of 6.7 percent to reach $17.7 billion by 2006. Worldwide CRM Spending: Forecast and Analysis 2002-2006 doesn’t portend a […]

While widely deployed in Europe and Asia, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)— the next generation platform for Internet data traffic — hasn’t been offered on a large scale in North America. Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, hopes to change that. Verio/NTT announced yesterday its plan to be what it describes as the first Internet […]

In what it describes as a response to its customers concerns surrounding Web services security and interoperability, Systinet will announce later this week the availability of WASP 4.6 for Java. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company’s platform (which stands for Web Application and Services Platform) targets both independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise users looking to deploy […]

On the day of its S3 introduction, Salesforce.com also laid claim to 95 percent year-to-year growth and its first quarter of profitability. According to the San Francisco-based ASP, it ended its first quarter with $19.1 million in revenue, a 22 percent increase over its previous quarter ($15.7 million), according to the company. Salesforce.com also reported […]