Michael Singer

Content networking company Ingrian Networks Tuesday says it has inked a deal where it will work with e-business security firm Netegrity to develop a single platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Waltham, Mass.-based Netegrity’s flagship product SiteMinder will be incorporated into Redwood City, Calif.-based Ingrian’s Secure Content Networking platforms. The goal is to give […]

Network Appliance says it has signed a multiyear agreement with Microsoft to license the latest Windows Media technology. The multiyear agreement is expected to let Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Network Appliance deliver live and on-demand streaming media solutions for enterprises and service providers. Microsoft says it will work with Network Appliance to ensure seamless Windows Media interoperability […]

Despite its relative newness and the unproven status of many of its support technologies, Linux developers are eager to embrace the Web Services Internet application model, a new Evans Data Corp. study finds. Web Services in this case are applications designed to interoperate across the Web with other Internet applications. These applications are modular and […]

Board members at San Francisco-based Bullant Monday say they’ve named Jan Gullett as the company’s new CEO. Gullett replaces the company’s original founder and CEO Gary Aitchison. Aitchison will move to the role of Executive Vice President of Products and continue to help develop Bullant’s technology. As CEO, Mr. Gullett will be responsible for establishing […]

Two Silicon Valley-based companies in the semi-conductor sector say they like working with each other so much that they’re pledging to swap patent information for the next five years. Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant Intel and Los Altos, Calif.-based Rambus Monday signed the comprehensive patent cross-license agreement that replaces a prior agreement between the […]

NativeMinds, which specializes in online natural language customer self-service solutions, named Gordon Heinrich as VP of Worldwide Services this week. Heinrich, a former executive with Inktomi , is expected to provide strategic client services direction and drive customer and partner interaction and satisfaction through all phases of the sales cycle. To help that cause, the […]

Cisco Systems is making a show of confidence in itself and in the stock market with some new financial maneuvers. San Jose, Calif.-based computer-networking equipment maker Friday says its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $3 billion over the next two years But, Cisco won’t be able to begin […]

Chinese-language online network SINA.com Wednesday says it will buy 29 percent of China’s Sun Television Cybernetworks from Yang Lan, a company chairperson, television host and one of the most widely respected TV journalists in China. The deal, worth US$8 million in cash and about 4.6 million in newly issued SINA shares, makes the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based […]

California Secretary of State Bill Jones handed over five-year, $25 million contract to eGovernment firm NIC Friday as part of a statewide information management and filing system. In addition to being the largest contract the Overland Park, Kan.-based company has ever won, the award is both the nation’s largest state eGovernment filing initiative on record […]

Mobile device application service provider vVault Thursday says that Stephen Burke has accepted the position of president and CEO of the San Francisco-based company. Burke replaces company co-founder and interim CEO Will Aldrich, who will move to the position of Vice President, Product Development. “Stephen’s appointment will help accelerate the deployment of vVault’s robust product […]

Pasadena, Calif.-based New.net and BulkRegister.com, the fourth largest ICANN-accredited registrar, Thursday inked a deal to sell New.net domain names as early as October 2001. The news comes one day before the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) council is scheduled to meet in Montevideo, Uruguay for its quarterly meeting. As part of the […]