Matthew Hicks

Videoconferencing is further expanding onto the Web as two service providers prep services to deliver video over the Internet—whether as a browser-based videoconference or as streaming media. In separate announcements, SightSpeed Inc., Glowpoint Inc. and StarBak Communications Inc. each introduced new products and services that enable Web videoconferencing. SightSpeed Inc., of Berkeley, Calif., on Monday […]

Microsoft Corp. is extending its search relationship with Overture Services Inc. through June 2005, despite speculation that the two might part ways after Overture was recently acquired by Yahoo Inc. Overture, of Pasadena, Calif., will continue to provide paid placement search results for MSN Search in the United States and the United Kingdom as part […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—With instant messaging moving further into the enterprise, the major IM vendors and networks are ramping up partnerships to meet enterprise demands for management, security and regulatory compliance. During the Instant Messaging Planet 2003 Conference and Expo here this week, both Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. announced new partnerships with third-party developers […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—With its Office Live Communications Server 2003 ready to launch next week, Microsoft Corp. is prepping a series of new features to extend presence capabilities, add interoperability among enterprises and build in conferencing to the real-time collaboration platform. Speaking at the Instant Messaging Planet Fall 2003 Conference and Expo here, Gurdeep Singh Pall, […]

On the day it set as a cutoff for unauthorized third parties to stop connecting into its instant messaging network, Microsoft Corp. is offering few details about its progress in creating licensing agreements to continue access. Microsoft last month announced that unauthorized third parties connecting into its .Net Messenger Service, which powers Windows Messenger and […]

The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday is releasing the latest version of its open-source Web application suite. The Mozilla 1.5 suite, available now, includes a Web browser, e-mail client, Web page design software and a chat client. With the release, Mozilla is improving its tabbed browsing so that tabs and bookmarks work better together, building a […]

Opera Software ASA, less than a month after launching an updated Web browser for Windows, has revved another release that runs across operating systems. Opera 7.21 was launched on Tuesday and runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. The release provides a feature for undoing the accidental closing of a browser window and reintroduces […]

Kubi Software Inc. on Tuesday launched a new version of its software for adding collaboration workspaces to enterprise e-mail clients, as well as a new server product. Kubi, of Lincoln, Mass., provides collaboration software that runs within Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes. It creates project workspaces, which its calls “Kubi Spaces,” where participants can […]

SAN JOSE—Just as enterprises begin to standardize their employees use of instant messaging, major IM networks and software providers are working on the next step—better integration of messaging with enterprise applications and systems. Speaking on Wednesday at the Instant Messaging Planet Fall 2003 Conference and Expo here, Steve Boom, senior vice president for Yahoo Inc.s […]

Mozilla, the open source Web browser project recently freed from its corporate creator, wants to become more than a techies tool. It wants to become part of a regular users online surfing. Now known as the Mozilla Foundation after splitting from America Online Inc.s Netscape Communications subsidiary in July, the project is turning its focus […]

Oracle Corp. on Friday extended its bid a fifth time to buy enterprise software competitor PeopleSoft Corp.—this time until the end of the year. The latest extension of the hostile $7.3 billion bid lasts until midnight EST on Dec. 31, replacing a tender offer that was set to expire at midnight EDT on Oct. 17. […]

Macromedia Inc. this week took the plunge into Web conferencing with the introduction of real-time meeting software based on its Macromedia Flash technology. The San Francisco-based company on Wednesday launched Macromedia Breeze Live, which is available either as a stand-alone product or as a module of its Macromedia Breeze online presentation system. Macromedia joins an […]