Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—If Trip Hawkins has it right—and hes a multimillionaire who has been right more than a few times in his business career—then the online wireless IT and entertainment industry had better realize soon that “it isnt all about content. Not now, it isnt, anyway.” Hawkins, founder of the wildly successful Electronic Arts Inc. in […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Lets face it: Whenever theres an opportunity for an advertiser to reach an audience, whether its through a conventional TV commercial, spam e-mail, or through a logo on a golfers cap, expect to see messages sent. Cell phone networks are not be left out. With more than 200 million people now using mobile phones […]

Microsoft Tuesday released the latest aggregated group of updates, Service Pack 2, for its Office 2003 suite. Included are significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements, the company said. The SP2 release ranges from 50 MB to 104 MB, depending upon selected download components, and is available here. It is applicable to […]

Zend Technologies Inc.s announcement earlier this week that it has released a major upgrade of its front-line product, Zend Platform, was welcome news for thousands of PHP developers around the world. It was also welcome news for Oracle Corp. and its own development community, which has invested a lot of time, money and effort in […]

Will profit-hungry international corporate cultures ultimately change the fundamental altruistic values of the open-source software community? There will always be a place for open-source software; thats a lock. However, there are those who believe that as the community and some of its most successful products mature and become more integral to the success of enterprise […]

Dell is not-so-quietly venturing into waters it had not previously sailed. This week the worlds largest personal computer maker augmented its already considerable personal technology portfolio with printers, handhelds and a miniature music player. News of these other product lines has diverted media attention away from the companys core business of PCs, at least temporarily. […]

Business communications systems provider Avaya Inc. announced Tuesday that it has acquired privately held Nimcat Networks, a maker of smart-phone software embedded in enterprise VOIP phones. The transaction was made for approximately $39.3 million in cash. Ottawa-based Nimcat Networks Inc.s “secret sauce” is the patented NimX, software that allows users to build localized VOIP (voice […]

Zend Technologies Inc., maker of PHP open source software for creating do-it-yourself dynamic Web sites, released a major upgrade Monday of its prime product, Zend Platform. Zend Platform 2 now handles higher-end workloads in business-critical applications, the company said, due to the addition of session clustering. Session clustering is a process that synchronizes session data […]

Microsoft Corp. bolstered its security hardware holdings Monday by announcing it has acquired digital security company Alacris Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Alacris, a privately held, Ottawa-based company founded in 1998, builds integrated management systems using PKI (public key infrastructure), smart-card deployments and biometrics for large commercial and government organizations that employ Windows-based systems. PKI […]

Analysts said Microsoft Corp.s Monday acquisition of a public-key identity management developer may herald an upsurge in the use of smart cards by enterprises and Microsofts position in the still-growing security management industry. Alacris, a small, privately held, Ottawa-based company founded in 1998, makes a security management software product called IDNexus that uses PKI (public […]