Scarlet Pruitt

Oblix Inc. has released a new version of its NetPoint identity management and access control software designed to allow online business partners to securely exchange information across corporate boundaries.

When it comes to Internet navigation Internet users are apparently done with surfing. According to a new survey, a majority of users now go directly where they want to go by typing in URLs and using bookmarks, rather than hopping from Web link to Web link.

Users of IBM Corp.'s Lotus Sametime software may be able to more easily communicate with the 195 million registered users of America Online Inc.'s Instant Messenger (AIM) under a new deal forged by the two companies.

Determined not to cede their customers to the wave of new digital music companies, six major U.S.-based brick-and-mortar music retailers have formed a consortium aimed at negotiating competitive licenses with the record labels so that they can launch their own online music offerings.

RealNetworks Inc. is releasing source code to the third component of its Helix platform, in a move that it says will create the industry's first open-source media delivery system.

The roughly 500 programmers, researchers, hackers and IT administrators gathered in a chilly classroom on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Friday aren't just looking to slow the relentless onslaught of spam -- they want to completely destroy its business model.

Microsoft Corp. is teaming with South Korea's leading mobile communications provider, Korea Telecom Freetel, to offer its MSN Mobile Services on advanced KT Freetel handsets.

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce network operator Global eXchange Services Inc. (GXS) is joining with UCCnet to provide its trading partners with the ability to synchronize product data, which it says will save its partners money and speed their time to market.