Thor Olavsrud

To stay on top in the programming world, it’s essential to stay up-to-date especially in the new world of open-source. Linux powerhouse Red Hat Inc. is aiming to help busy programmers do just that with Monday’s roll-out of a suite of eLearning courses. The courses, all ranging in price from $325 to $450, run the […]

Over the past few years, the Internet has become a truly global phenomenon with countries in all stages of development getting connected. But the Domain Name System (DNS) requires that all hosts and domain names be identified using seven-bit US-ASCII characters that can be represented in English. That forces non-English speakers to learn English language […]

The words “refocus” and “model” used together in a sentence don’t instill quite the amount of terror in Net professionals today that they do in “traditional economy” workers. But some Internet companies these days are finding that it’s necessary to downsize employee pools to make themselves leaner and meaner. That’s exactly what Internet community company […]

For 17 years, USA Networks has held exclusive television broadcasting rights to America’s highest profile tennis event, the U.S. Open. Beginning Monday, USANetwork.com will extend that coverage to the Web. The centerpiece of the Web coverage will be live, daily talk show, Tennis Talk, hosted by USPTA Tennis Coach Bob Litwin. The show had a […]

Investors in white hats and armed with $20 million in equity financing rode in at the 11th-hour Tuesday to save ailing online health company drkoop.com Inc. from certain collapse. The investors — including Prime Ventures, JF Shea Ventures, Cramer-Rosenthal-McGlynn Inc., and RMC Capital — came through with the financing mere hours after Monday’s announcement that […]

CollabNet Monday snapped up New York-based Web services firm Alphanumerica Inc.. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. CollabNet is a provider of open source collaborative software development platforms and services and the acquisition brings it employees that can build sophisticated Web sites to serve as communities for open source programmers. CollabNet already hosts […]

After more than a month existing on a shoestring and a prayer, award-winning online news service APBNews.com received a breath of hope Monday morning. In an internal memo, Chief Operating Officer Mark Sauter told APB’s “skeleton crew” that Waltham, Mass.-based SafetyTips.com has offered $950,000 for APB’s assets. “On Sept. 1st, APB will either be sold […]

A new variant of the “I Love You” virus, in the wild since Tuesday, has some security experts worried — not because the worm is terribly destructive, but because copycats may use it as the roadmap for creation of more dangerous versions. The virus, known as VBS/LoveLetter.bd, has been rated low to medium risk by […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Thursday, banking on a bright future for networking in India, declared that it will invest $150 million in the country’s Internet industry over the next two years. The plans include expansion of its sales and research and development operations and a 300 percent increase in employee strength. Cisco made the announcement at […]

DevX.com Inc. Wednesday reached a content agreement with jGuru.com, a B2B vertical portal for Java developers. The agreement licenses DevX.com to feature jGuru’s FAQ section on the DevX network homepage and to create a weekly newsletter incorporating content from both companies. The jGuru FAQ has information about the Java programming language and allows users to […]

Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch Inc. and its affiliate, Ticketmaster Corp., Monday lost ground in its ongoing legal battle with Tickets.com Inc. U.S. District Court Judge Harry L. Hupp denied Ticketmaster Online Citysearch’s motion for a preliminary injunction. The company and Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of TMCS majority-owner USA Networks Inc. , sought the injunction against Tickets.com to prevent […]

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday shipped the latest version of its Web authoring software, GoLive 5.0. GoLive, available for Macintosh and Windows with complete feature parity, has a host of new features and enhancements, including “360Code,” which enables complete control over any Web source code. 360Code enables users to move HTML pages and JavaScript, including any […]