Matthew Hicks

Computer Associates International Inc. late on Monday announced plans to settle a string of shareholder and other lawsuits about its accounting practices in hopes of boosting its financial performance. As part of the settlement, CA plans to issue the shareholders involved in three class actions as many as 5.7 million shares of CA stock. The […]

The ramifications of the $521 million verdict against Microsoft Corp. in a Web browser-technology patent-infringement case could extend far beyond the Redmond, Wash., software makers bottom line and features within its Internet Explorer browser. The attorney for Eolas Technologies Inc., the company that (along with the University of California) sued Microsoft, says the technology is […]

Mac advocates awaiting OpenOffice.orgs release of its open-source productivity suite with native support for Mac OS X will be waiting until 2006—unless they pitch in to help. OpenOffice.org is delaying the projected release, originally expected in early 2004, until the first quarter of 2006, largely because of a lack of developers contributing to the effort, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Singingfish Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to add Macromedia Flash into its multimedia search engine—but to be included, site operators will have to pay. The new offering, announced at the Search Engines Strategies Conference & Expo 2003 here, is part of the Seattle companys paid inclusion program. That program allows Web site operators […]

Opera Software ASA on Wednesday released a new version of its commercial Web browser to run with Apple Computer Inc.s upcoming release of its latest Mac operating system. Operas version 6.03 for Mac is an interim release that will allow users to continue browsing once Apple releases Panther, the name of its Mac OS X […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Expect the wait to continue for the much-anticipated initial public offering of search engine stalwart Google Inc. Company co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday that while Googles board of directors discuss the possibility of an IPO regularly—about “every third meeting”—the company has not decided on when, or if, to go public. “Theres a good […]

The upgrade clock is ticking for users of Microsoft Corp.s MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. Those using older versions of the popular instant-messaging clients have until Oct. 15 to upgrade or they will lose access to the .NET Messenger Service. Microsoft, which began informing affected users by e-mail on Monday, is requiring the Messenger updates […]

New real-time analytics capabilities in an upgrade to InterSystems Corp.s object-relational database will be a boon to users who need to analyze large data sets, users say. The real-time analytics in Cache 5, which InterSystems will launch next week, comes from new Transactional Bit Map Indexing technology built into the core database. Real-time analytics for […]

IBM next month will make generally available a networking chip set focused on providing increased performance in a compact design with low power usage. Called the PowerPRS 64Gu packet-routing switch, the chip set allows networking gear makers to build high-bandwidth applications in a smaller switch-fabric-board form factor and to expand to a higher aggregate throughput […]

OuterBay Technologies Inc. is expanding the applications it supports with a software tool that offloads storage of inactive data for business applications. The Campbell, Calif., company tomorrow will launch a beta version of LiveArchive for PeopleSoft that supports PeopleSoft Inc.s namesake suite of enterprise applications. Since 1999, OuterBay has offered LiveArchive for Oracle Corp.s applications. […]