Michael Singer

You are at the checkout counter with your 15 items (or less). But instead of getting a paper receipt that you are probably going to throw away anyhow, your inbox now has a record of your purchase with a couple of coupons that you can use on your next visit. Atlanta-based Web services company AfterBOT, […]

If you’ve ever been to an Oracle conference, you know that they produce in-house content that the company later streams on their Web site. So to feed the beast that is its applications user community, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software maker Thursday expanded its menu of content for Oracle AppsWorld Online. The material on Oracle’s […]

Anti-virus experts discovered a brand new virus that attacks Shockwave files, but say the bug is a low risk to most people. San Francisco-based Macromedia , which makes Shockwave software Wednesday acknowledged the problem and released a patch to fix it. Although it doesnt appear as devastating compared to other well-known computer infections such as […]

E-business infrastructure software maker BEA Systems, Inc. Wednesday says it has inked a global strategic alliance with Deloitte Consulting, which is part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Under the agreement, Deloitte Consulting plans to train all of its e-business technical staff on San Jose, Calif.-based BEA’s WebLogic E-Business Platform. New York-based Deloitte is one of the […]

Vicinity Corp. Wednesday says one of its patent applications has been approved and registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company provides Web, wireless and speech-based Enterprise Location Services (ELS). The patent is titled “Method and Apparatus for Efficient Proximity Searching.” The technology improves the speed, accuracy and efficiency of searching […]

Critical Path , a Web-based software company that has seen its share of hard times, Monday named Bill McGlashan as its permanent CEO. McGlashan had been serving as the San Francisco-based company’s interim CEO since April 2001. The company’s board of directors was impressed with the way he helped to lead the company to financial […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Its not that Adobe Systems doesn’t like Macromedia‘s Flash – they love it. It’s just that they think they can do it better. The San Jose, Calif.-based Web and graphics software company Monday released updated versions of its popular GoLive and LiveMotion in part to compete with the wildly popular animation software […]

Once upon a time, Covad Communications was on the brink of extinction. Now it is sopping up the assets of other companies. The latest sign of Covad’s comeback is the acquisition of the assets of InternetConnect, a Torrance, Calif.-based Internet Service Provider (ISP), which has been in bankruptcy since May 2001 for $7.35 million. The […]

In the words of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “The waiting is the hardest part.” So true is that statement in the world of domain name registry. All of the best names seem to have already been taken up by cyber-squatters and large corporations with deep pockets. Coming to the aid of the little guy, […]

UPDATED: In a move that could drastically reduce the amount of spam in your e-mail inbox, a California Court of Appeal in San Francisco Wednesday ruled that so-called “spammers” must identify their pitches for things like “Herbal Viagra,” and “Reducing Debt,” as advertisements. A three-judge panel unanimously ruled in favor of a 1998 state law […]

After Homestore.com, Inc. handed bad news to investors this week, some shareholders replied in kind by slapping the online real estate site with a class action lawsuit. The Westlake Village, Calif.-based company issued a preliminary report Wednesday saying it overstated its earnings for the first three quarters of 2001 by as much as $95 million. […]

In a climate where dot-com publishers are dropping like flies, two tech information rivals Thursday say they will pool their resources. New York-based TheStreet.com and San Francisco-based MarketWatch.com are now in a strategic alliance designed to boost each other’s subscription-based readership. Under the terms of the two-part agreement, MarketWatch.com says it will feature selected premium […]