Grant Du Bois

Businesses looking to communicate with customers, partners and suppliers more rapidly and more often could be in for good news from BoldFish Inc. and Lyris Technologies Inc. Both companies are readying upgrades to their respective high-volume outbound e-mail services that will enable enterprises to send high-volume e-mail faster, more reliably and without extensive IT support. […]

Lotus Development Corp. and Motorola Inc. have unveiled separate initiatives to make gaining access to personal information management and business applications on wireless devices easier. Lotus late last month extended its relationships with wireless handset manufacturers Ericsson Mobile Communications and Nokia Corp. to jointly market Lotus messaging and collaboration software to users of those companies […]

As voice recognition technology makes advances in ease of use and accuracy, Conversational Computing Corp. is pushing for the day when it can replace the mouse and keyboard for surfing the Internet. To bring that day closer, Conversay, as the company is known, next month will introduce Conversay Voice Surfer, a plug-in to Microsoft Corp.s […]

Adexa Inc. and Webridge Inc. have introduced tools to help companies improve collaboration with their suppliers and internally among employees. Adexa, which offers primarily supply chain solutions for companies involved in e-business, upgraded its iCollaboration Suite with expanded buy-side, enterprise and sell-side applications for order management and procurement. Version 5.0 of the Internet-based platform enables […]

Inktomi Corp., the company best known for its search engine software, is expanding its footprint in new directions. The Foster City, Calif., software company this summer will overhaul its search engine software for enterprise-level XML (Extensible Markup Language) translation—a move that will rebuild Inktomis content management and other applications for structured and unstructured data searches […]

Voice recognition companies Nuance Communications Inc. and IBM Voice Systems are partnering to spread their technologies to a broader audience. Nuance, of Menlo Park, Calif., and networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., last week announced that Nuance will provide voice recognition and authentication software for Ciscos Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated […]

A deal between Microsoft Corp. and eBay Inc. announced last week could give developers an easier way to add auctioning and e-commerce capabilities to their Internet applications. In the process, the partnership will enable both companies to expand their roles as toll collectors on the Web. Under the alliance, eBay, of San Jose, Calif., will […]

An upcoming service pack for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange Server 2000 will offer corporate IT managers new scalability and security features. The added functionality in Exchange 2000 Service Pack 1, due by midyear, will enable IT managers to consolidate the messaging and groupware software onto fewer servers and give anti-virus software writers deeper access to Exchanges […]

Brian Moura needs to hear better arguments in favor of peer-to-peer networking technology before he gives it any consideration. “Peer-to-peer is not on our radar screen,” said Moura, assistant city manager in San Carlos, Calif. “If we already have application servers and file servers, whats the advantage or value-add of letting each persons PC be […]

Sybase Inc. this week will unveil an upgrade to its Enterprise Portal, which gives business partners, suppliers, customers and mobile users personalized access to information, applications and services. EP 2.0 offers content management services—the ability to add, categorize and deploy information—with such advanced features as automated currency conversion and language translation, said officials at Sybase, […]