Matthew Hicks

The Internet today is weaker than it was a week ago, according to an Internet advisory group. The culprit is SiteFinder, VeriSign Inc.s move to redirect mistyped and nonexistent domain names, said representatives of an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) advisory committee on Monday. The group said VeriSigns service was undermining the […]

A startup company launching this week wants to change the way enterprises and Web users view online video. By sending files in the background instead of streaming in real time, Maven Networks said its customers can provide a higher-quality experience for rich video content. Maven Networks Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., released its Maven Media System, […]

VeriSign Inc. will not back down on its SiteFinder redirect service launched last week despite a call from the overseer of Internet domain system for the company to voluntarily suspend the service. Spokesman Tom Galvin told eWeek.com on Monday that VeriSign has no plans to suspend the service and is happy with its success, having […]

Another major enterprise IT vendor has further embraced the move toward using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in manufacturing and retailing. Sun Microsystems Inc. this week announced that it has formed a business unit dedicated to helping customers and partners to develop software and hardware solutions for the use of RFID. At least one piece […]

In an effort to combat spam, Yahoo Inc. is requiring users of certain older versions of its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging client to upgrade by Sept. 24 or lose access to its popular IM network. But the move could have a side effect that company officials say was not the intent of the move: It […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is cutting about 3 percent of the jobs at the company in a move to help improve profits. Sun currently has 36,000 employees, so the cutbacks will affect about 1,080 positions. The move comes two days after Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy told reporters during the Sun Network 2003 Conference and Pavilion […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. is readying a series of new features for its Solaris operating system, some of which will become available to participants in its early-access program in the next three to four months, said Mark Tolliver, executive vice president of marketing and strategy. Speaking on Wednesday at the SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is standardizing its software products on an open-source database to store and manage non-relational data. Sleepycat Software Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., has chosen Sleepycats Berkeley DB database as the embedded database within its software line. The database is incorporated in key components of the Sun […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Admitting that his views are controversial, Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy today reiterated his belief in the network as the center of computing, a movement that he said will lead IT to increasingly be delivered as a service. “I dont believe in doing things the way theyre already being done,” he […]

IBM Corp. on Monday launched a new service to boost the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) among retailers and manufacturers. The service provides a combination of consulting, implementation services and specialized software to provide companies with advanced product tracking and inventory control through the use of RFID. “IBM believes RFIDs time has come,” said […]