Ryan Naraine

Looking to cash in on the barrage of unsolicited e-mails clogging inboxes nationwide, anti-virus software firm McAfee.com on Tuesday announced the rollout a branded version of the recently-acquired ‘SpamKiller’ service for businesses and consumers. McAfee said ‘SpamKiller’, which was acquired from Norway-based Novasoft, would be released as a managed service that helps PC users block […]

Two senior executives at e-commerce software maker Peregrine Systems resigned suddenly Monday after auditors raised red flags concerning $100 million in accounting revenues. The announcement of the potential accounting errors and the departures of CEO Steve Gardner and chief financial officer Matt Glass sent Peregrine’s stock into a tailspin, slipping below the $1.00 mark for […]

San Jose, Calif.-based route control play netVmg plans to take the wraps off its Flow Control Platform (FCP) 2.0 Monday, positing it as a product that enables measurable Internet performance, route optimization in public and private VPNs. The company, which plans to introduce the FCP at the Networld+Interop (N+I) 2002 Las Vegas conference, said the […]

“When it’s just not your day…” On the day a jury returned a verdict in favor of rival Adobe in a critical patent infringement suit, Macromedia, Inc learned that a bug in a version of its Flash player was a security risk to IE users. According to an advisory from eEye Digital Security, a previous […]

Interactive television software firm OpenTV has clinched a licensing deal to put its Device Mosaic HTML browser on products manufactured by Sony Corp. Mountain View, Calif.-based OpenTV said the Device Mosaic browser, which is used to deliver content to set top boxes, would let Sony to develop products that allows the use of advanced HTML […]

Micron Technology has walked away from negotiations to acquire rival chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor, ignoring a request from Hynix’s Creditors Council to reignite the talks. Micron, spurned in its bid to shell out about $3.4 billion to acquire the memory chip business and a 15 percent ownership stake in Hynix, bluntly announced the deal was dead. […]

In its biggest client win to date, search technology upstart Google, Inc. has added AOL, CompuServe, AOL.COM and Netscape to its paid listings roster, beating out incumbent Overture Services for the lucrative deal. America Online announced the deal Tuesday after the oft-extended deadline for a renewal of the Overture deal passed, giving the contract to […]

BEA Systems on Tuesday rolled out the general release of its WebLogic Server Version 7.0 J2EE-based application server product, touting a redesigned security framework as a key asset in its efforts to compete with offerings from IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems . To enhance its Web Services potential, WebLogic Server Version 7.0 has been equipped […]

The tentative takeover pact between rival chipmakers Micron Technology and South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor has been scrapped. The one-week-old $3.4 billion cash and stock deal collapsed suddenly with the board of directors at Hynix rejecting the restructuring plan hammered out by the Hynix Creditors’ Council, a group of Korean lenders that bankrolled the company through […]

In a three-horse race with EMC Corp. and IBM to lock down the top spot in the network storage space, Mountain View, CA-based Veritas went on the PR offensive Monday, announcing a slew of deals with some of the biggest names in the tech sector. The barrage of announcements from Veritas comes on the same […]

The on-off-on-off marriage between security software firms Network Associates and McAfee.com ran smack into a brick wall Thursday with the announcement that accounting inaccuracies would force yet another withdrawal of the $225 million buyout bid. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates said the accounting errors were found in its 1999 and 2000 financial statements. “(We […]

After 16 hours of deliberations over three days, a Massachusetts jury has rejected Michael McDermott’s insanity defense in the Edgewater killings, convicting the 43-year old on seven counts of first degree murder. Because Massachusetts does not support the death penalty, the former Edgewater software tester faces an automatic life sentence without parole. McDermott, of Haverhill, […]