Monthly Archives: May 2005
Google Snaps Up Mobile Social-Networking Startup
Building onto its mobile and social-networking technologies, Google has bought the two-person startup company Dodgeball.com.
Google Inc., which confirmed the acquisition Wednesday, is providing no...
Toshiba Adds Big Thinkers for Mini Drives
Toshiba is thinking big when it comes to little hard drives.
The company, which has made a name for itself supplying miniature hard drives for...
AOL Weaves Webmail into AIM Service
America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service.
Called AIM Mail, the...
Sun to Buy Tarantella
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Tuesday that it is purchasing thin-client software company Tarantella Inc.It will be a cash purchase of $0.90 per share, or...
Ingram Micro, AMD Enter Global Partnership
Wherever in the world distributor Ingram Micro Inc. does business, so can processor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The companies just entered a rare global...
MSN Buys MessageCast for Real-Time Alerts
Microsoft has acquired a messaging startup known for a real-time alerting service that taps into instant-messaging networks and RSS feeds.
Microsoft Corp.s MSN division has...
IBM Scores SOA Deals with Lawson, Firemans Fund
IBM demonstrated that it is winning major converts to its service-oriented architecture for software integration by announcing deals Tuesday with the Firemans Fund and...
Manage, Dont Mangle, Your Digital Assets
While the cash-for-old-content crowd was gathered in New York for the Digital Asset Management Symposium this week, I was sitting here in my office...
Toshiba Develops 45-Gbyte HD DVD Disc
Memory-Tech Corp. and Toshiba said late Tuesday that they have developed plans for a three-layer, 45-Gbyte HD DVD disc.The super-high-density HD disc is constructed...
Asset Management Pays Off
NEW YORK—A forum of experienced executives shared their strategies for streamlining workflow at the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposiumhere this week.
While all began...