Ryan Naraine

Finnish wireless phone giant Nokia on Wednesday unveiled two new services aimed at easing the transition for mobile operators to third-generation (3G) networks. In a statement devoid of details, Nokia said the new products — Nokia Network Evolution Service and Nokia Multivendor Integration Service — are geared towards mobile operators that struggle to make a […]

With eyes set on the tricky e-learning market, IBM Corp. Tuesday announced it would partner with The Thomson Corp. to marry e-learning technologies and services that target corporate and government customers. Financial terms of the alliance were not disclosed. Under the agreement, IBM’s e-learning technologies and services would be combined with Thomson learning products and […]

Looking to stave off hard-charging competition from Microsoft in the corporate handheld market, Palm Inc. has inked a deal with tech giant IBM Corp. to create mobile applications for the enterprise market. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Palm, which has struggled to win acceptance from corporate users, said the deal with Big Blue calls for the development […]

San Mateo, Calif.-based RouteScience on Monday announced its biggest client win to date — a deal to provide Internet route-control services to search engine giant Google, Inc. The deal calls for Google to use the company’s PathControl product to automatically route Internet traffic in real time to the best available link. PathControl is a tool […]

Looking to corner a bigger chunk of the market for Web-based B2B collaboration software, Microsoft on Monday announced it would integrate its SharePoint Team Services software with the popular Groove Workspace product. Microsoft, which owns about 20 percent of peer-to-peer firm Groove Networks, said the marriage of the two products would target the corporate market […]

Microsoft has not yet released a beta version of its heavily-hyped Windows Media 9 (formerly ‘Corona’) platform, but tongues are already wagging about its advanced capabilities. The revamped WM9 player, promising to virtually purge buffering delays when streams are launched and take full advantage of a user’s high-speed connection, is being touted as the best […]

B2B voice and data networks firm Avaya has added two new IP telephones and a wireless IP telephony product to its suite of communications services. New Jersey-based Avaya said the new IP-based products would be added to the suite of workplace communications devices it hawks to business and government agencies. The latest products include the […]

The decision by Yahoo to use a word-altering e-mail filter to guard against the execution of malicious Web code is generating buzz in the Internet security space and experts predict ISPs will follow the company’s lead to implement aggressive forms of virus protection. To protect against hidden code in e-mail written in HTML or other […]

NEW YORK – Apple Computer boss Steve Jobs on Wednesday trained the spotlight on the new Mac OS 10.2 ‘Jaguar’ operating system, hyping more than 150 features including new media players, synching capabilities and Sherlock 3, a “completely rewritten” version of the search engine. Dressed in trademark tee-shirt and jeans, Jobs’ two-hour keynote at the […]

Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP on Monday announced the discontinuation of its Netaction Software suite as part of what it described as a “post-merger shift in software strategy.” HP, which shelled out about $19 billion for acquire rival Compaq Computer, said the shutdown of the Netaction product set would affect the HP Netaction Application Server, HP […]

Wireless phone giant Nokia plans to team up with Silicon Graphics Inc. to develop a 3D standard for embedded mobile terminals based on SGI’s OpenGL graphics standard. OpenGL, introduced by SGI in 1992, is a vendor-neutral, multi-platform graphics application programming interface (API) and Nokia said the development and adoption of a 3D standard would help […]

Redwood City, Calif.-based Liquid Audio on Monday announced it would amend terms of its merger agreement with Alliance Entertainment, a deal that gives Alliance a bigger stake of the combined firm. The digital media software firm, which was acquired last month in an all-stock transaction, said the amended agreement would give Alliance a 74 percent […]