Michael Singer

The TriZetto Group, Inc. , which supplies the healthcare industry with IT products and services, Wednesday said it has signed an agreement to acquire certain employees, intellectual property and assets from the healthcare division of ChannelPoint, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Newport Beach, Calif.-based TriZetto provides proprietary and third party software on a licensed or […]

The majority of votes are counted and Hewlett-Packard is again claiming victory. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said late Wednesday that the results of its March 19 proxy vote show an overwhelming approval of the $19 billion proposed merger with Compaq Computer . Although the vote is not certified, a preliminary tally […]

E*TRADE Group is sitting pretty after the company beat Wall Street expectations by a penny. For its quarter ended March 31, 2002 , the online banking and investment site reported net income from ongoing operations of $27 million, or $0.08 per share, which is better than the $0.07 per share estimated by analysts at First […]

USB, part of the universal ‘plug-and-play’ technology has been around since 1996, but not all PCs are built alike and the technology that recognizes the drivers can sometimes run into problems. Intel said Wednesday it is addressing this issue by releasing its USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) 1.0 specification on a royalty-free basis. […]

Yahoo! Wednesday launched Yahoo! Webcast Studio Professional as an updated version of its Webcast Studio platform. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based media company said the idea is to offer a way to stimulate more corporate Internet broadcasting, by giving companies the license the self-publishing tools necessary for customers to create, edit, publish, manage, and measure their own […]

Intel got kudos Tuesday from developers at its Developer Forum in Tokyo with the release of its Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) 2.0. The downloadable cross-platform software library is comprised of functions for making APIs. The latest upgrade adds Linux 64-bit OS support to already available Linux 32-bit and Windows 32- and 64-bit support. […]

Lawyers for Cisco Systems may have to do some pretty fancy footwork to avoid a $1.3 billion lawsuit by Vox2Vox. The San Jose, Calif.-based computer-networking equipment maker is facing fraud charges after Miami-based U.S. District Judge James L. King declined to dismiss the case Friday. Miami-based Vox2Vox, which is out of business, offered hosted telecommunications […]

Adobe Systems Monday said it has finalized its $72 million acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based Accelio Corp The San Jose, Calif.-based Web publishing software giant says it will meld all of Accelio’s ePaper business into its operations with a special nod to meshing it into Adobe’s famous Portable Document Format (PDF) technologies. “The acquisition of Accelio […]

ImproveNet, Inc. said it will begin its restructuring this week, according to a Form 10-K filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s auditing firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, also said it has doubt about the ImproveNet’s ability to go on for much longer based on its $130.6 million in debt and $21.8 million in cash […]

Two separate government offices have asked for additional information from Hewlett-Packard in reference to its $19 billion proposed merger with Compaq Computer . The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker confirmed the request in its Form 8-K (special announcement) filing issued Monday. HP said it is cooperating fully with both inquiries. Officials with the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government is poised to transform the way it does business through the use of the E-Government and the man entrusted with overseeing its two-year rollout has a message for the IT crowd — the citizen comes first. Norman Lorentz, the presidential appointed Chief Technology Officer and Chief E-Government Architect for […]

After three months since its last version change, the Mozilla Web browser took another baby step Thursday towards its first official product launch. The Mountain View, Calif.-based open-source project is celebrating its 0.9.9 release but has its sights squarely fixed on the release date for Mozilla 1.0, which Mozilla Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker says […]