Rachel Schmutter

New Star Wars Video Playground: Mashups

Thirty years after Lucasfilm first took fans to a galaxy far, far away, the production company is allowing fans to play director with clips from the six “Star Wars” films and a partnership with Eyespot, an online video editing application. On May 25, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first film of the […]

Red Hat Makes Major Channel Changes

Red Hat has announced a major expansion of its global partner programs, including new channel programs to help increase collaboration between Red Hat and its partners around the world. Red Hats JBoss middleware products will feature largely in these greater partnerships. /zimages/1/28571.gifAttend Ziff Davis Medias Managed Services Virtual Tradeshow without leaving the office. Click here […]

Linspire Offers Free E-Mail and File Storage Services

First, there was Freespire; then, free CNR. Now, here comes FreeLinuxEmail, a free e-mail and file storage system from Linspire. Its not much of a name, and not a completely accurate one, either. The system was developed by Messaging Engine of Melbourne, Australia. It offers anywhere-access for Linspire 5-0 and Freespire 1.0 users. FreeLinuxEmail boasts […]

Adobe Donates Source Code to Mozilla Tamarin

Theres a new primate in town. On Nov. 8, it became official: Adobe Systems donated source code for its ActionScript Virtual Machine to that open-source champion of the people, the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla promptly converted it into the Tamarin project, to prop that standard wide open. What does that mean to you? Well, on the […]

A Big Slice of Keylimes Pie

Keylime (www.keylimesoftware.com), a Carlsbad, Calif., e-business ASP, needed a friendly financier. Several million dollars worth of friendliness, according to CFO Michael Brower. Keylimes heavy financing requirements encompass a Web analytic tool and other critical equipment needed to provide security and service to monthly subscription customers such as Compaq and IBM. In choosing a financing partner, […]

Finance It!

Youre so close to the deal that you can taste it. The customers techs love it, as does the CIO. And the CEO has blessed it. But the CFO insists the piggy bank is empty, so, despite the strong internal support, the deal is stopped in its tracks. Game over, right? Wrong. With a good […]