Brian Prince

UGS and IBM are entering into a new partnership centered around UGS Teamcenter Express software, designed to meet the collaborative product data management needs of small and midsize businesses. The companies have agreed to jointly market Teamcenter Express software and services to SMB customers in China, France, Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, UGS […]

Adobe Systems announced on Jan. 4 that the next version of Adobe Production Studio, the companys integrated video and audio post-production tool set, will be available for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The new version of Adobe Production Studio will feature Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Soundbooth. The software will be […]

Wibu-Systems USA is challenging hackers around the globe to take their best shot at cracking their encryption technology. Its a winner-take-all contest, and the prize is $40,000. It is slated to begin at 6 p.m. EST Jan. 31 and end at 5:59 p.m. EST March 14—or when someone defeats CodeMeter, Wibus dongle-based anti-piracy tool, and […]

Nuance Communications, the worlds leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, announced Jan. 3 that AT&T, the largest telecommunications company in the United States and one of the largest in the world, has selected speech technology from Nuance to automate its new 1-800-YellowPages Directory Assistance service. The Nuance solution is part of an integrated advertising […]

A growing community of small and midsize business owners has no plans to slow down in 2007. Armed with a new Web-based membership portal, the leaders of the Mobilize SMB Private Services Network are hoping to expand the groups ranks in the new year. “MSPSN provides the framework for the SMB solution provider community to […]

Program crashes are an unfortunate fact of life for software developers. But to protect against crashes, developers need to know which programs are crashing and how often. Enter Google, which for the past several months has been working on an open-source project called “Airbag” that is aimed at handling all the dirty work when it […]

Level 3 Communications has announced plans to purchase the Content Delivery Network services business of SAVVIS for $135 million in cash, a move meant to enable the company to provide more rich media services via the Web. SAVVISs CDN business, which has approximately 50 employees, made about $15 million in revenue in 2006, as of […]

A report on spam by e-mail security firm Commtouch Software dubs 2006 the “Year of the Zombies.” The study found that “zombies,” the name given computers remote-controlled by hackers, can number up to 8 million hosts globally on a given day. As a result, spam volume increased by 30 percent in 2006, according to the […]

Samsung Electronics officials announced Dec. 27 the company has crafted a 1G bit Mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory chip using 80nm process technology. The new chip, company officials said, will be more cost-effective than other high density mobile solutions and used for a wide range of advanced handset applications as well as for digital still […]

Hewlett-Packard announced Dec. 21 that it plans to purchase Bitfone, a privately held company that develops mobile device management software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase is expected to be completed by February 2007, after which Bitfone will be integrated into the Handheld Business Unit of HPs Personal Systems Group, […]

When the K-1 aerospace vehicle finally takes flight, it will be running software from UGS, a leading provider of product lifecycle management software and services. Final construction of the orbital launch vehicle is being built by a team of contractors headed by Rocketplane Kistler. The company will utilize UGS NX software, a digital product development […]

During the past several years, investment company Thoma Cressey Equity Partners has made its presence felt in the software world, and 2006 was no exception. In just the last few months, the company acquired and merged Vision Solutions International and iTera. Then, Thoma Cressey entered into a recapitalization agreement with Sirius Computer Solutions. All totaled, […]