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RealNetworks, Inc., Monday announced it has secured distribution of its RealOne Player — the successor to the most popular media player software on the Internet — on Intel Corp.’s newest PC desktop motherboards. The move helps bolster the Seattle-based company’s chances of defending its market share against industry giant Microsoft Corp., which is gaining on […]

By @NY Staff International Business Machines and microchip company Xilinx have signed a two-year, multi-million dollar deal under which IBM is to manufacture semi-conductor parts for Xilinx. The products are part of a new category of “off-the-shelf” programmable chips that could help speed new mobile computing devices to the market. The contract to manufacture the […]

Buyout and turnaround specialist Gores Technology is considering a bid for Global Crossing, the bankrupt voice and data carrier, according to published reports. Just what Los Angeles-based Gores is offering is not clear at this point, but someone close to the deal said that it would offer “substantially more” than they would get from a […]

Continuing its effort to shore up sagging sales, Palm, Inc. Monday released two new color handhelds. The company said that its Palm m130 and m515 handhelds both support full color and Palm’s dual-expansion technology that enables use of both SecureDisk and MultiMediaCard media. The m130 fills out the company’s lower-end m100 series line of handhelds […]

Be Free Expands Acclaim Affiliate marketing technology player Be Free said its new Acclaim program has nearly tripled in size since its inception six months ago. The program, designed to highlight affiliate-friendly merchant partners, has attracted 44 advertisers, Marlborough, Mass.-based Be Free said. The program uses a special symbol to identify merchants that provide timely […]

Enhancing its supply chain, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, J.D. Edwards & Co. , the Denver, Colo.-based provider of collaboration software, yesterday announced the opening of its clustered solutions laboratory in Denver, Colo. The cluster lab will be powered by Compaq ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clustering […]

Vignette Corp. , the Austin, Texas-based content management system provider, yesterday announced that it will deliver portlets, (portal building blocks), to integrate Vignette V6 MultiSite Content Manager (VMCM), its recently launched software product, with Sun Microsystems’ iPlanet Portal Server. The integration will provide joint Vignette and Sun customers with access to Vignette-managed content within the […]

Loudcloud, Inc. , the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based managed services provider (MSP), today announced it had signed an acquisition agreement with Frontera Corp., a privately-held MSP based in Los Angeles, Calif. Loudcloud will acquire Frontera in an all stock transaction, and the completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including Frontera stockholder approval and […]

McAfee.com , the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web security services provider, yesterday announced an agreement with Polarity Inc., a promotion and distribution company, to develop alternative software distribution programs for offline consumers. McAfee says that the programs will be developed to reach customers through traditional PC industry distribution channels, and that the alliance is a continuation of […]

By Erin Joyce UGO Networks, a Web network of entertainment sites aimed at 18-34 year old men, has started offering a new ad unit that it hopes will deliver more impressions and bang for advertisers’ bucks. Called the The Vendor Integrated Page (V.I.P.), the ad loads entire, fully interactive client Web pages within the UGO […]

Stream International, a Canton, Mass., provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software and services for call centers, has promoted Robert T. Dechant to COO. Previously, Dechant was senior vice president of sale and marketing. In his new role, he is responsible for Stream’s North American operations, which include half the company’s 22 call centers and […]

SkillSoft , a Nashua, N.H., provider of e-learning software for business and IT professionals, has signed seven new deals totaling $10 million. Customers include telecom carrier Verizon, auto maker General Motors, and financial service advisor JD Edwards. Other buyers are from the energy, transportation, and federal government sectors. Under the multi-year pacts, thousands of employees […]