Bob Liu

With IBM’s 2002 first-quarter results officially in the record books, the hi-tech industry has once again turned its attention to rosier prospects on the horizon. The Armonk, N.Y.-based technology giant Wednesday reported profits were cut by nearly one-third from year-ago levels to $1.19 billion, or 68 cents a share, on revenue of $18.6 billion. Revenue […]

SGI, perhaps better known as Silicon Graphics Inc. , on Monday took steps in hopes to continue its evolution from being just a visual graphics workstation supplier to a major player in the enterprise solutions market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which 30 years ago practically created the computer graphics industry, has partnered up with […]

hereUare Communications Inc. has felt the sting of VoiceStream Wireless’s acquisition of MobileStar Network Corp. hereUare, a San Jose, Calif.-based aggregator of commercial Wi-Fi-based hotspot nodes, and MobileStar have parted ways and, as a result, hereUare has lost about 600 valuable nodes in Starbucks locations for its network. The breakup resulted from VoiceStream Wireless’s decision […]

Not to be outdone by IBM or Microsoft, webMethods Inc. on Wednesday announced Charter Communications Inc. , the nation’s fourth largest cable operator, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have each separately selected its XML-based Web Services integration platform to lay the foundation for integrating their respective enterprises. The announcements come the same day that Microsoft’s […]

Atheros Communications, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up that made a name for itself last year by pioneering the 802.11a technology, is hoping it can follow up on its success. On Monday, Atheros is set to announce three next-generation chipsets as part of a new “OFDM Everywhere” initiative, which is trying to spread the gospel of Orthogonal […]

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. has begun to absorb its acquisition of MobileStar Network and the results could have an enormous impact on the burgeoning Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) sector. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which itself was purchased by Deutsche Telekom last summer, now plans to phase out the MobileStar and VoiceStream Wireless brand names and […]

An effort by Boingo Wireless Inc., the Santa Monica, Calif.-based start-up wireless Internet service provider (WISP), to include the free access nodes of public Wi-Fi networks is drawing sharp criticism from the individual members of the community groups that operate those access points. And the ensuing firestorm has even caused Boingo Founder and CEO Sky […]

In the midst of its battle for the mindshare of the software development community, BEA Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., on Monday officially took the wraps off of its next-generation Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based Web services development framework, code-named “Cajun.” The Cajun framework, which is being rebranded as “BEA WebLogic Workshop,” simplifies software […]

In the hope of kick-starting the deployment of the newest wireless local area networking (WLAN) specification known as 802.11g, Intersil said Thursday that it partnered with enterprise networking leader Cisco Systems Inc. to develop high-speed WLAN client adapter reference designs that comply with the in-progress Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11g draft standard. […]

Proxim Inc., plans to use its 802.11a-based Harmony line to establish a free public “hot spot” network at a cable trade show in Colorado. The public wireless network is believed to be the first hot spot based on the 802.11a technology, which uses a different part of the spectrum to transmit data at speeds faster […]

Proxim Inc., plans to use its 802.11a-based Harmony line to establish a free public “hot spot” network at a cable trade show in Colorado. The public wireless network is believed to be the first hot spot based on the 802.11a technology, which uses a different part of the spectrum to transmit data at speeds faster […]

Along with its massive push of the .NET platform onto the client/server environment, Microsoft Corp. Thursday tried to emphasize the framework’s ability to support non-PC platforms as well. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced a strategic alliance with Anoto AB of Sweden to deliver enhanced communications on Anoto’s pen-based technologies. Anoto, a subsidiary of C […]