Clint Boulton

AMD — well embroiled in a semiconductor supremacy battle with archrival Intel Corp. — took steps to improve on its embedded processor technology for devices beyond the PC Wednesday when it agreed to buy privately-held Alchemy Semiconductor for an undisclosed sum. Alchemy Semiconductor makes low-power, MIPS-based microprocessors for personal connectivity devices such as personal digital […]

One day after the Superbowl — labeled the most secure sporting event ever held in the United States — market research firms IDC Corp. and Gartner’s Dataquest Inc. released new figures on managed security services and security software, respectively. IDC pegged the U.S. market for managed security services at some $720 million in 2000 and, […]

With all of the online music subscription providers cropping up and rolling out their services, they’re going to need the infrastructure to support them, right? CenterSpan Communications Corp. is one technology provider hoping to capitalize on this notion as the Hillsboro, Ore. firm Monday unveiled C-Star CDN Services 2.0, a modular software and service suite […]

Much of the extensive media coverage encompassing the recent Enron debacle has centered on the notion of “shredded documents.” It’s even become the subject of snarky cartoons in such lauded publication’s as The New Yorker, whose Feb. 4 issue features an illustration of a man walking by a storefront that has the words “Enron Recycled […]

Handspring Inc. Thursday made official the launch of two Treo communicator models to retail outlets in Singapore. The Treo models 180 and 180g (“g” meaning graffiti handwriting recognition, in this case), which can best be described as wireless phone and PDA hybrids, feature Web browsing and text messaging. Accompanying the launch is the island’s leading […]

Is there any doubt now that wireless networking isn’t gaining popularity? Accenture Compaq Computer Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Wednesday said they have prepared more than 2,000 custom personal digital assistants (PDAs) for World Economic Forum attendees, along with a corresponding wireless network. Meeting attendees will be able to stay connected with Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs […]

With all of the bluster about Web services being bandied about, XML interoperability consortium OASIS Monday said it has set up a committee whose focus is to create a standard that will allow the plug-n-play of visual Web services with portals or other Web applications. Backed by a cadre of Web service specialists, the Web […]

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. Monday filed a patent infringement suit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and three of Samsung’s U.S. affiliate companies, charging infringement three Matsushita’s patents covering semiconductor dynamic random access memory (DRAM) technologies. Matsushita, better known as Panasonic in the U.S., is asking for $100 million in damages per item for patents […]

San Francisco’s Macromedia Inc. Monday announced that its application server has passed has passed Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 test suite to achieve Sun’s J2EE 1.3 compatible brand. This means the software program, Macromedia’s JRun, makes the capabilities of the J2EE 1.3 platform accessible to Java developers. The J2EE 1.3 […]

IBM Corp. has great designs for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week and it started Friday with the unveiling of a Linux-only mainframe targeted to “reduce server sprawl” and compete with midrange machines made by Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. . But while Sun and HP typically focus on delivering Unix-based servers, IBM […]

Two weeks after agreeing to make IBM Corp.’s NetVista line of personal computers, Sanmina-SCI Corp. again took advantage of the feverish sell-off climate when it vowed to buy three manufacturing plants from Alcatel. . Financial terms of the deal, in which Sanmina-SCI will purchase the assets of Alcatel facilities in Cherbourg, France; Gunzenhausen, Germany; and […]

Federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, who gained fame in the tech sector three years ago for presiding over the Napster trial, went to work on the most publicized case since the commercialization of the Internet Wednesday again put the recording industry’s lawsuit against the file-swapping firm on hold. According to published reports, Patel agreed to […]