Jeff Burt

Internet Access Small and home offices have a new tool to help them gain Internet access through wireless devices. New Market Arescom Inc. has rolled out its AresGate 1000 Wireless LAN Gateway series, the Fremont, Calif., companys entry into the wireless residential gateway market. Based on the IEEE 802.11b standard, it enables small and home […]

Reaching out to company officials scratching their heads over which e-business strategy to implement, SAP AG, of Walldorf, Germany, this month announced an assessment tool called mySAP SCM Value Calculator. Through a Web interface, users submit data to determine basic information—company name, annual revenue and so on—and current e-business practices. Once issues such as “current […]

Cardonet Inc., which offers catalog management software for business-to-business e-commerce, this month announced an upgrade to the Santa Clara, Calif., companys Transactive Catalog. The software works as a production catalog and discovery engine to help companies search for, compare and select products from online catalogs. Version 3.1 has an enhanced engine that allows customers to […]

Collaboration via the Web offers a lot of promise—and many obstacles. Arbortext Inc. said it hopes to help businesses clear some of those hurdles. Enhanced features on the Ann Arbor, Mich., companys Epic Editor 4.2 include change tracking, which enables groups of authors to track text and mark up changes made to a document, and […]

Storage giant EMC Corp. and semiconductor devices maker Applied Materials Inc. announced job cuts this week as an already difficult economic forecast darkened. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., said Thursday that it is unlikely to break even this quarter and, as part of “sweeping” cost reductions, will cut 2,400 jobs. President and CEO Joe Tucci said […]

Three-in-one solution Internet Machines Inc., a semiconductor builder in Agoura Hills, Calif., has launched a series of chip products touted as delivering the highest level of integration for OC-192c and 10G-bps systems. The IMpower family of chips includes a network processor; a 200G-bps switch element, called the SE200; and a traffic management coprocessor, which together […]

Danger Inc. finally has announced its long-awaited wireless Internet device, dubbed Hiptop. The Palo Alto, Calif., startups Hiptop enables customers to browse the Internet, exchange instant messages, send and receive e-mail with attachments, and make phone calls. The product also includes a little camera. The device comes with back-end services and Java-based software. Wireless carriers […]

Having to constantly retool systems as interface standards and technologies change can cost businesses a lot of money and time. Jacada Ltd., with U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, last week announced the availability of its Jacada Interface Server 7.0, a fully integrated development and deployment environment that offers a common interface layer for new application development […]

Problems that can slow traffic through a network can be a headache for businesses. IP Metrics Software Inc. last week rolled out an updated product designed to find those problems quickly. The Euless, Texas, company at NetWorld+Interop introduced its NIC Express 3.0 software driver for load balancing traffic across two or more network adapters. The […]

Vignette Corp. is betting that bundling a varied menu of features under one price will satisfy customers seeking tools to build content-rich Web sites. Vignette 6.0, announced last week, includes the Vignette Content Suite, which in turn includes a number of modules that had previously been sold separately. Before, Vignette sold add-ons to perform such […]

Microsoft Corp. this week led a growing number of high-tech companies offering money, equipment and services to relief workers and companies in New York City and Washington following the terrorist attacks in those cities. The software giant donated $10 million in cash and technical services, $5 million of which will be a cash donation to […]

Small-to-midsize businesses trying to manage their networks and security better will soon have a new tool. Mitel Networks Corp.s Network Server Solutions Group—formerly e-Smith Inc.—has released SME Server V5 with ServiceLink, a Linux-based network and security management solution also aimed at remote offices of larger businesses. ServiceLink adds round-the-clock server monitoring and reports; virus protection […]