Monthly Archives: September 2002
Open Text to Buy Centrinity
Open Text Corp. announced an agreement Thursday to acquire unified messaging software developer Centrinity Inc.The acquisition would give Waterloo, Ontario-based Open Text, which develops...
IBM Offers Language Translator for Handhelds
IBM today announced language translation software for handheld computers that includes interfaces for both text and speech.The ViaVoice Translator, which runs on Microsoft Corp.s...
New Tool Helps Manage Java Applications
Sapient Corp. on Tuesday took a new technology for managing Java applications and released it to the open-source community.The technology, MC4J (Management Console for...
Unlimited Storage That Fits in Your Pocket
Once viewed as sleeper products, pocket-size USB storage devices seem to be gaining momentum. Devices like the new SanDisk Cruzer ($59.99 to $199.99 direct,...
Senators to Move on Nanotechnology in Nanoseconds
In its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace draft released today, the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board named nanotechnology as having the potential to reshape...
DoubleClick Makes Offer for Protagona
DoubleClick Inc., perhaps best known for its online advertising network, continued to build its marketing software business Tuesday by making an offer to buy...
BMC to Ride Capacity Planning Wave
With capacity planning back in vogue now, thanks to tight IT budgets, BMC Software is moving to beef up its performance management and capacity...
Microsoft Adds to Its Applications Stable
MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft continued to add to its growing stable of applications software on Tuesday by adding two new "industry solutions" to its Microsoft Business Solutions...
EMC Launches Software Blitz
EMC Corp. on Wednesday rolled out a host of new and enhanced software offerings, including new storage resource management software, a new Web-based performance...
Suns Latest Plan: Project Mad Hatter
SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems, Inc. on Wednesday announced "Project Mad Hatter," its plan to essentially bring to market a Linux desktop that is tied to...