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IBM Spinoff Takes Global View Of Patents
News IBM patent research spinoff Delphion said it is licensing its software to Patolis, formerly the Japanese Patent Information Organization. Delphion said Patolis, which became a private company last year, will use its technology to expand its online...
[January 15, 2002, 11:36]
Entry By Spinoff In A High-Tech Cluster
White Papers Recently empirical studies have focused on how capabilities of new entering firms are important for the evolution of industries over time. The performance of new entrants appears to be significantly influenced by their pre-entry background.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
TechXNY: Crusoe Squeezes Into Meta Pad Spinoff
News Antelope, a company that makes mobile computing devices for niche markets, said on Wednesday that it will use Transmeta's Crusoe TM5800 in an upcoming device based on IBM's "Meta Pad" technology, a device the size of a PDA that morphs into a...
[June 26, 2002, 16:50]
IBM Spinoff Takes New Server Approach
News A start-up spun off from IBM has begun selling a thin "blade" server with a less radical approach than competitors trying to pack computing horsepower as densely as possible. OmniCluster Technologies has begun selling servers that plug into...
[October 1, 2001, 14:15]
Vignette Spins Off Wireless Software Venture
News E-commerce software maker Vignette said Wednesday that it has formed a wireless spinoff to develop e-business and personalisation software for mobile networks, despite recently shutting offices and shaving its work force.
[February 7, 2001, 15:27]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com Homecomings
News If 1999 was the year of the dot-com spinoff, the next year or so may be the year of the dot-com homecoming. The iTurf spinoff had nothing to do with fundamentals and everything to do with market sentiment.
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
HP Merger Opponent Gains Support
News A Wall Street analyst on Wednesday said she agrees with many points made by dissident Hewlett-Packard board member Walter Hewlett, including that HP should reconsider a spinoff of its lucrative printing and imaging businesses.
[February 21, 2002, 8:46]
PalmSource Chairman To Leave
News He has been serving on the boards of both companies since the spinoff of PalmSource from Palm last October. PalmSource said that since the spinoff, it has completed a stock offering that resulted in net proceeds of about $59m (£32m) and has...
[August 13, 2004, 16:35]
Network Associates Boosts McAfee Bid
News At the time, Network Associates was struggling and saw a spinoff as a good move for its Internet operations. The increased exchange offering won over an independent committee that represented McAfee, a spinoff of Network Associates.
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
Palm Buys Handspring, Spins Off PalmSource
News The deal is expected to close this fall, after the spinoff of PalmSource. With the Handspring deal and the PalmSource spinoff, Palm is looking to bring back some of its old magic. Palm said on Wednesday it will buy rival Handspring for...
[June 4, 2003, 12:30]
The Day Ahead: AT&T's NCR Finally Shines
News Avaya, a Lucent spinoff, also hasn't set Wall Street on fire. Things have become so topsy-turvy in AT&T's universe that the spinoff no one wanted -- NCR -- is currently doing better than its high falutin' cousins.
[October 30, 2000, 13:02]
Home Networking Gets A Jump Start From New Tech
News Thomson and other technology companies, including Intel, Motorola, 3Com and IBM spinoff Home Director, are expected to announce and demonstrate new home networking technologies at the technology conference next week.
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
Xerox To Spin Off "electric Paper" Division
News After the spinoff, Xerox will retain a majority stake in the company; private investors will hold a minority stake. Some analysts view the spinoff as a positive sign that financially troubled Xerox still has some valuable assets.
[December 8, 2000, 6:05]
Comdex 2001: 802.11a Puts Wireless In The Fast Lane
News The networking companies, along with Lucent Technologies spinoff Agere Systems and others, compete in the emerging wireless networking market that is expected to grow from $1.2bn in revenue last year to $4.6bn by 2005, according to a study by...
[November 12, 2001, 15:04]
RIM Report Stuns Analysts
News Last week PalmOne, which was created from the merger of the hardware spinoff of Palm and former rival Handspring, announced quarterly revenue of $271.2m for the second quarter of fiscal year 2004, up 5 percent from the $257.9m reported during the...
[December 24, 2003, 8:25]
Chipset Brings Fibre Closer To Homes
News Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an integrated chipset that it says will make it easier and less expensive for carriers to bring fibre access to homes and small businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
RealNetworks Signs 3G Deal
News The agreement, announced late on Monday, expands an already existing relationship between the streaming-media company and Envivio, a San Francisco-based spinoff of France Telecom whose software encodes video in accordance with the MPEG-4 standard.
[November 5, 2002, 7:57]
CeBIT Home Cancelled
News CeBIT Home, a spinoff of CeBIT, the mammoth technology fair, will not take place this year, organisers told ZDNet Wednesday. CeBIT Home spokesman Eberhard Roloff said, "From a quality-management point of view it wouldn't have been fair for those...
[May 31, 2000, 15:32]
Boeing Anti-spam Subsidiary Takes Off
News Aerospace giant Boeing officially launched an anti-spam spinoff late on Wednesday. Dubbed MessageGate, the new company will offer a commercialised version of the software Boeing uses internally to fight unsolicited email.
[August 22, 2003, 12:00]
Eolas Hits Back At Microsoft In Patent Battle
News UC and its one-man software spinoff Eolas on 16 July filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the federal circuit to counter Microsoft's request for an appeal in a patent infringement case that has rattled the Web, from site authors to...
[July 20, 2004, 8:35]
