Jeff Burt

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 […]

Filanet Corp. has released the InterJak 200 802.11b Internet Service Appliance, which lets a small office set up a managed, integrated wired and wireless LAN and WAN solution, using one device. The Sunnyvale, Calif., companys latest product comes with a range of standard and optional business-class network services, secured behind a firewall. Features include URL […]

Getting to the meeting These tough economic times can make it difficult to get everyone in a company in the same room for a conference. LiveWave Inc. has released a small piece of technology that will make it possible for everyone to easily make the meeting, even if theyre many miles away. Taking it all […]

Advanced competitive Strategies Inc. is bringing increased scalability and speed to its war on bad business planning. The Portland, Ore., company late last month introduced new versions of its ValueWar software, which is used to analyze strategies for introducing and repositioning products, setting sales goals, and ironing out sales problems. With the Strat-Test edition, ACS […]

Fineground Networks Inc. is shipping the newest version of its content acceleration software. Condenser Version 3.0 enables businesses to transmit to a Web site only the differences between uploads, rather than the sites entire contents, said executives with the Campbell, Calif., company. The result is an acceleration of performance of up to 10 times, with […]

Agere Systems, based in Allentown, Pa., last week announced four wireless networking kits for small businesses, all of which include installation wizard software that encourages users to enable 128-bit encryption. The Wireless Home & Small Office Networking Kit for the desktop includes an access point, the RG-1100 Broadband Gateway, that wirelessly connects up to 10 […]

Improved services Are you getting the VOIP-based virtual PBX services that you need from your broadband service provider? If not, you might mention a new voice-over-IP application from StarVox Inc. The San Jose, Calif., manufacturer last week rolled out StarVox IP Centrex, which allows service providers to host virtual PBXes on their networks for small […]

Support.com Inc. is extending its Mobile Support Solution technical support software to the Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry and Microsoft Corp. Pocket PC platforms. The software already supports Palm OS mobile devices. Mobile Support Solution can be embedded into Palm OS, BlackBerry and Pocket PC products to extend enhanced automated support services to customers. It […]

Two software camps are converging Web services standards and open protocols with integration technologies that tie enterprises back-office legacy systems with their newer, front-end Web initiatives. iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions last week said it plans to bring together its disparate lines of integration software to offer a single platform. The unnamed platform will support open standards […]