Clint Boulton

Whispers say that Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Monday will release new chips in a week that features two highly-anticipated technology shows — MacWorld San Francisco and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In a fierce fight to produce that fastest chip, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel will unleash a 2.2-gigahertz chip, […]

It was launched nine weeks ago, but adopters of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP have been merely humming along in mastering the software giant’s new, prized operating system darling, according to a recent study from International Data Corp. The Framingham, Mass.-based market research firm surveyed over 300 known Windows-using IT managers and gauged responses to Licensing […]

As much as media sites scrambled to put together looking-back pieces on high-tech before the New Year, some research firms are tossing out predictions after January 1. International Data Corp. Thursday unleashed some assured prophesies of its own for the global IT market in 2002. While Framingham, Mass.’s IDC listed 10 predictions, readers may want […]

With its finger on the pulse of silicon-related activities worldwide, the San Jose, Calif.-based Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Wednesday that semiconductors sales rose this past November to $10.6 billion, 1.6 percent from the $10.4 billion the industry posted in October. This spot of good news in what has been a gloomy sector marks the […]

One week to the day after it agreed to provide supercomputing capabilities for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), IBM Corp. Friday did the same at the University of Texas for Austin’s advanced computing center (TACC). Financial terms were not disclosed. While Big Blue offered its services to the European organization to help […]

Warnings about flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s ubiquitous operating systems and popular software are a dime a dozen these days, which is a bit disconcerting when one considers that the holes themselves can often shut out site access, potentially causing businesses to lose serious dollars. It was understandable that the software giant’s announcement of a serious […]

Jupiter Media Metrix recently posted results of research done on one of the most nascent entertainment-converging-with-technology markets around — video-on-demand (VoD) — and concluded that it will harm current pay-per-view services. Jupiter, which said the U.S. VoD market will grow to 641.9 million dollars by 2006, believes that the majority of VoD consumers will come […]

Cambridge, Mass.’s Akamai Technologies Inc. recently claimed victory in a year-old patent infringement case versus content delivery rival Digital Island Inc. Last week, an eight-person jury in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts found that Cable & Wireless subsidiary Digital Island Inc., infringed on two content delivery patents owned by Akamai — patent 6,108,703 issued […]

IBM Corp. Friday said it received another endorsement by a weather forecasting organization to craft a supercomputer that helps meteorologists predict, well, the weather. Called “Blue Storm,” the huge machine, doubling as supercomputer and storage network, was requested recently by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to help meteorologists improve their forecasting abilities. […]

Scientists at IBM Corp.’s San Jose, Calif.-based Almaden Research Center this week rushed to report that they have performed a challenging quantum computer calculation, causing a billion-billion custom-designed molecules in a test tube to become a seven-qubit quantum computer. With that breakthrough, they solved a simple version of the mathematical problem that is the crux […]

At a time of year when business tends to slow to a crawl, Compaq Computer Corp. showed that it’s keeping the competitive fires burning as the Houston-based firm Thursday said it had penned IT service and technology deals with defense contractor Raytheon and mobile phone maker Ericsson to the tune of $250 million and $200 […]

Ottawa’s JDS Uniphase Corp., a leading purveyor of fiber optic communications products, lightened IBM Corp.’s load Wednesday when it agreed to buy the Armonk, N.Y.-based firm’s fiber optic transceiver unit for a $340 million cash/stock combination. The breakdown is such that JDS, who competes fiercely with fellow Canadian firm Nortel Networks and San Jose, Calif.’s […]