Bob Liu

The area of capital investments is a peculiar Catch-22 for the chip sector and Deutsche Bank’s latest report on Intel illustrates this point clearly. When it announced its second-quarter earnings on July 15th, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said that capital spending was expected to be between $3.5 billion to $3.9 billion for 2003. In […]

Despite the upbeat quarterly earnings report from bellwether Intel, high tech companies sang an all-too-familiar song late Tuesday as companies like Motorola and Lucent Technologies continued to push any hopes of a turnaround farther out on the horizon. Lucent, which has long been the poster child of the ailing telecom industry, said it doesn’t expect […]

Unisys Corp. has previously tried to leverage its mainframe reputation and transform itself into a dominant force in the server business. But since the dawn of the Aries or Orion families of its ES7000 line of servers in March 2000, the company has seen relatively meager success. But on Monday, Unisys is hoping to jumpstart […]

Timed to coincide with Intel’s launch, Unisys on Monday will unveil its ES7000/400 series — an expansion to its enterprise server line built around the latest generation of Itanium 2 (code-named “Madison”) with processing capabilities starting at four-way and expandable to a 32-processor model targeted for high-end computing. The ES7000/400 server models, which consists of […]

The availability of digital wireless technology has now proliferated to nearly every corner of the United States and mobile data services have begun to play a more significant role in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) industry, according to a new FCC study. About 278 million people, or 97 percent of the total U.S. population, […]

The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday completed the mark-up of a bill that will clear airwaves for private companies to deploy additional third generation (3G) wireless services. But the legislation, “Bill 865: the Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act,” doesn’t go before the full Senate floor for ratification without controversy. The Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act, introduced Commerce […]

In its first quarterly update since announcing is merger with Handspring , Palm Inc. , which will soon split its two operating units (Palm Solutions Group and PalmSource) into two separate companies, said on Tuesday that it is still in the red but momentum is returning to its business lines. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company announced […]

As mobile computing becomes more popular throughout the enterprise, IT executives from systems vendors to CIOs are placing an increasing emphasis on securing those expanding work environments. In fact, just last week when PalmSource announced its latest secure platform at the CeBIT America tech conference, CEO David Nagel highlighted the single biggest point of irony […]

NEW YORK — PalmSource on Tuesday unveiled its newest platform framework code-named “Sahara” as its mobile business architecture — a strategy that CEO David Nagel says will translate into further acceptance of the Palm OS in the enterprise market. Speaking at the inaugural CeBIT America conference here, Nagel explained that 80 percent of the people […]

EDS on Wednesday announced a new business strategy plan to stabilize and re-invigorate its core IT outsourcing business including taking measures to tap into the burgeoning market for business process outsourcing (BPO) services. The move comes less than six months after Plano, Texas-based IT services giant fired its its Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Brown […]

Nokia on Tuesday partnered with RealNetworks to expand the streaming media capabilities for the Series 60 Platform to add full support of Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP)-compliant content formats. Nokia previously incorporated RealNetworks’ RealOne Mobile Player into the Series 60 Platform. But its support only included local playback of 3GPP media and local and streaming […]

Priceline.com , the online travel site that has long suffered from the stigma of the dot-com bubble, on Monday finally took steps to allay investors’ fears that its stock could ever get delisted. The Norwalk, Conn.-based company also reaffirmed its previous guidance for the current second quarter that it would return to profitability with net […]