Matthew Hicks

Apple on Monday announced a new version of IT management software for Mac OS X that boosts screen-sharing performance and supports remote desktop functions across multiple operating systems. Apple Remote Desktop 2, which will ship next month, is the Cupertino, Calif., computer makers suite of tools for desktop management, software distribution and help-desk support for […]

Social networking startup Visible Path Corp. is enriching its financial war chest as it nears the launch of its enterprise software aimed at improving business connections. The New York company has received an additional $2 million in Series A funding from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, bringing the total investment from the venerable venture capital […]

Adding Googles Web search to their sites could pay off for Web publishers. Google Inc. on Friday announced a new program that lets publishers gain a share of the revenue from sponsored links when they sign up to use the companys Web search on their sites. The company also unveiled a pilot project that lets […]

The Mozilla Web browser suite branched out to Version 1.7 on Thursday with improvements to its pop-up blocking, new e-mail features and greater authentication support for enterprises. Mozilla 1.7 is considered a “stable branch,” or a significant yearly release aimed at those deploying the suite widely within an organization and that includes more noticeable performance […]

Six Apart this week sought to calm critics of its Movable Type pricing plans by unveiling licensing changes to its popular Weblogging software. Late on Tuesday, Six Apart Ltd. co-founder and CEO Mena Trott posted a message on the companys Web site outlining the revamped pricing scheme. Paying customers can create an unlimited number of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Messaging is about more than e-mail, and all of its various forms—from voice mail to instant messaging—need to interconnect for users, said one of the central figures in the Internets development. Vinton Cerf, a co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol whos considered a father of the Internet, told attendees during his opening keynote at the […]

VeriSign has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit against the Internets main domain-name oversight body. The Mountain View, Calif., company on Monday refiled the suit after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers won an early round in the case during a May hearing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. A federal […]

LOS ANGELES—Internet-connected nanorobots that travel within our bodies. Virtual assistants that appear before our eyes. Virtual worlds that intermingle with our senses. Welcome to the future according to Ray Kurzweil. The inventor and author, who wrote the recent best-seller “The Age of Spiritual Machines,” offered a glimpse of his predictions for technologys evolutions during a […]

LOS ANGELES—With more social networking Web sites and software reaching out to business users and enterprises, users must be motivated to remain active in their online networks of colleagues and contacts in order for the technology to reap rewards. While agreeing with that assessment during a panel discussion Tuesday at the Business 4Site conference here, […]

Bloomba, a search-based e-mail client, has added calendaring features in its newest release to more directly compete with Microsofts market-dominant Outlook client. Along with launching Bloomba 2.0, software developer Stata Laboratories Inc. on Monday also split the Bloomba client into two versions: Bloomba Personal Edition, available now, and Bloomba Professional Edition, which will be available […]