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Palm Inc. said Monday that claims by NCR that it has patents covering handheld computers have no merit. NCR sued Palm and Handspring late last week, claiming that two patents it received in 1987 cover a “portable personal terminal.” NCR asked the U.S. District Court in Delaware both for royalties and damages. “Palm will defend […]

[March 19, 2001 Korea] It’s been a rather difficult time for Korean start-ups recently. There have been constant downfalls in stock market, skittish investors, colossal lay-offs, and now… software raids. The Korean government, working together with the Software Property-right Council (SPC), has began to take action on software piracy. Although it was widely known throughout […]

Western Digital Corporation announced plans to create a new company called SANavigator Inc. from its network attached storage (NAS) subsidiary Connex last week. While Connex will continue to focus on NAS, SANavigator’s concern will be the Storage Area Network (SAN) software management market. According to Western Digital, the SANavigator product is scalable and can help […]

Interland, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILND), a Web solutions provider, will wrap up its week at InternetWorld conference in Los Angeles after launching its enhanced shared Web hosting service, Interland True Advantage. True Advantage was developed to streamline use by Interland’s customers by cutting a clearer path to more complex Web hosting solutions for SMEs, including the […]

After the wave of business name-changes had seemingly slowed down around here, the trend once again struck our neighbors to the North yesterday. Vancouver, BC-based Prologic Corporation, a developer of web-enabled financial services software, has changed its name to Fincentric Corporation. According to a statement issued by the company, the new name, which became effective […]

Sprint PCS said Thursday that it will begin rolling out third-generation (3G) wireless services to its customers later this year. That would make it the first U.S. carrier to offer 3G services. It also was the first carrier to make Net access available to wireless phone users, rolling out its service in September, 1999. Initially, […]

New York-based Mail.com , which sells outsourced messaging services to businesses, has announced two separate financing transactions yielding it a total of $5.9 million. In a statement, the company announced a deal to raise $2.9 million through the issuance of senior convertible notes to accounts managed by Zesiger Capital Group LLC. In a separate transaction, […]

AVT Corporation, late yesterday, unveiled a plan to adjust its strategic direction, including a 14% reduction in its workforce. The Kirkland-based provider of unified communications and mobile business solutions will continue to build a business model for growth based on the Mobile Business Solutions market, while at the same time maximizing the return on its […]

Intersil said Thursday that Proxim’s patent claims regarding wireless local area networking (LAN) technologies are without merit and vowed to fight those claims. Wireless networking vendor Proxim (Nasdaq:PROX) last week sued Intersil and other vendors, including 3Com, Cisco, SMC, Symbol and Wayport, for patent infringement. Proxim said that it has patents that cover technologies in […]

Linux continues its move into the embedded devices market, as NeoMagic uses LynuxWorks’ embedded Linux distribution, BlueCat Linux, for handheld platform NeoMagic, which specializes in semiconductor technology for mobile systems, is developing its System-on-Chip platform for multimedia applications running on handheld devices. The platform aims to meet the demands of high performance graphics, video and […]

[Johannesberg, SOUTH AFRICA] – Ericsson SA recently unveiled an Internet Protocol (IP) based PBX solution that brings the benefits of software switching to local private telephone networks. “This platform is powerful because the network is no longer just an extension on your desk, but rather is extended to wherever you might be,” said Andy Martin, […]

Teen-focused Web publisher and marketing company Alloy Online, Inc. reached cash profitability for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2000, its first such milestone since it went public in May of 1999. Before goodwill amortization and other charges, it earned $0.04 per share, compared to a loss of $0.27 per share in the same quarter of […]