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Q&A: Meet the new spam buster
News Groove Networks chief executive Ray Ozzie hates spam just as much as the next guy. Version 2.0 of Groove, which integrates Microsoft's Outlook email with new server tools, lets people on corporate networks collaborate with each other or with...
[April 16, 2002, 10:16]
Groove software to jive with Lotus Notes
News Groove Networks plans next week to release a new version of its collaboration program, which will offer integration with IBM's Lotus Notes and enhanced instant messaging capabilities. Groove's software helps create peer-to-peer networks -- a way of...
[August 15, 2002, 8:05]
Web services get into the Groove
News Groove Networks on Tuesday released a revamped version of its collaboration software that ties the company closer to Microsoft and introduces compliance with Web services. Founded by collaboration software guru and Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie...
[February 4, 2003, 14:24]
Groove swings $51m from Microsoft
News Microsoft on Wednesday said it has invested $51m in Groove Networks, taking another step toward solidifying its strategy to let customers share files and data with Web-based collaborative software. Privately held Groove Networks makes software that...
[October 10, 2001, 15:03]
Groove updates peer-to-peer software
News Peer-to-peer software specialist Groove Networks on Monday will release a new version of its collaboration and instant messaging software. Groove Networks was launched in 1997 by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie.
[April 11, 2002, 9:12]
Attack on Microsoft's Groove deal fails
News An ex-Groove Networks executive suffered a legal setback on Friday in his bid to block Microsoft's takeover of his former company. Matthews' attempt to block the acquisition of Groove Networks by Microsoft by way of a temporary restraining order...
[April 4, 2005, 10:10]
Ozzie's peer-to-peer to hit corporate networks
News Groove" has been described by Ozzie's company Groove Networks as "a product that leverages peer-to-peer communications technologies to do things previously not possible using the Internet". We are piloting the base Groove product and multiple...
[October 24, 2000, 16:03]
Microsoft to buy Net collaboration firm
News Microsoft also is closely aligned with Groove Networks, which provides peer-to-peer networking collaboration software. The deal is complementary to what we're doing with Groove Networks," he said. In July, Groove announced that its software would...
[January 22, 2003, 10:33]
.Net gets P2P boost
News Microsoft already has a relationship with Groove Networks, a company whose software helps people create peer-to-peer networks to share data or work on common projects. Analysts said that while there is overlap between Groove and Xdegrees, the...
[September 16, 2002, 11:28]
2001: Peer-to-peer technology grows up
News Tech sector veteran Ray Ozzie is planning to take on the might of Microsoft and Lotus with his Groove Networks venture. Groove will let staff collaborate through shared messages, documents and forums and -- unlike server-centric Outlook and Notes...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Workers on the move can get into new Groove
News Groove Networks next week is expected to deliver the third major version of its collaborative software, an update designed to help people share information when they are on the move or connected to a corporate network.
[July 8, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft's Groove move makes solid sense
Leader Microsoft's purchase of Groove Networks, software development team and its transferral of CEO Ray Ozzie to a CTO role within Microsoft, shows that the company is still capable of astute manoeuvres. Groove is built on peer-to-peer principles...
[March 11, 2005, 13:15]
Microsoft gets with the Groove
News Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove's "virtual office" collaboration software into its Office...
[March 11, 2005, 8:00]
Microsoft gets into the groupware Groove
News Ozzie and Microsoft's top brass last Thursday announced the sale of Groove Networks to the software giant. The nature of what [we] do is dynamically serving small work groups…[But] this [acquisition] will clearly, over time, increase the potential...
[March 14, 2005, 10:50]
Collaborating by Groove
News The founder of Groove Networks argues that organisations are becoming increasingly decentralised. Groove was really founded based on the changing nature of business in general -- the fact that business would become more decentralised.
[March 16, 2004, 10:55]
Microsoft bans employees from music swapping
News In the memo, the executives contrasted the peer-to-peer efforts of music-sharing distributors AudioGalaxy, Kazaa and Morpheus against the work Microsoft is doing with Groove Networks. On Monday, Groove said it would incorporate support for...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
Lotus Notes creator to unveil peer-to-peer product
News Late Monday, his new company, Groove Networks, sent out press invitations for what Ozzie described as the Preview Edition of groove, "a product that leverages peer-to-peer communications technologies to do things previously not possible using the...
[October 3, 2000, 11:26]
Is Ray Ozzie the new Bill Gates?
News He succeeded last year, when Microsoft acquired Ozzie's Groove Networks. In 1997, Ozzie founded Groove, which made desktop software for collaboration and communication among small groups, and closely aligned his work with that of Microsoft, a...
[June 16, 2006, 9:15]
Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning
News Corporate implementations such as Groove Networks are making slow inroads into business environments. Freenet has long been a kind of peer-to-peer promised land, with its developers promising technical features far beyond the simple file-swapping...
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
P2P and Akamai tech combine to expand Web
News The Net is broken, fundamentally broken at this point," said Ray Ozzie, chief executive of Groove Networks and the creator of Lotus Notes, citing barriers such as firewalls and scarce Net address availability.
[February 15, 2001, 9:31]
