David Needle

Dual-core, we hardly knew ye? Despite the fact that dual-core processors only hit the mainstream in 2005, AMD and Intel are already touting the next generation of “quad-core” processors for 2007. “Multi-core is the new megahertz,” said Insight64 analyst Nathan Brookwood, in an interview with internetnews.com. “If you want more performance rather than ramping up […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig warned that today’s fast-growing, free-wheeling Internet is threatened by network providers who want to control innovation and commerce on the Internet much the way AT&T once controlled the phone networks. Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, Lessig said society has to decide if it wants to […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Open source software will play an important role in the inevitable move to a utility model of computing, a noted observer said. Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, Nicholas Carr compared today’s data centers to the individual power plants companies maintained a century ago to ensure a ready supply of […]

Scalix gave enterprise e-mail a hand with its open source offering released today. San Mateo, Calif.-based Scalix said open source and Linux clustering technology automatically detects failed messaging services and reroutes e-mail traffic to alternate servers, which allows organization to achieve 99.999 percent e-mail uptime. The high-availability architecture supports both active/active and active/passive clustering. The […]

Nortel is getting out of the market for blade switches. The Toronto-based telecom giant is selling the assets of its Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU) to Garnett & Helfrich Capital. Nortel plans to keep a minority interest in the newly formed Blade Network Technologies. Equity firm Garnett & Helfrich said Blade Network Technologies will […]

Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) plans to announce next week the acquisition of Project.net, a provider of enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) software. As part of the acquisition, ICS also plans to launch a commercial open source version of Project.net’s PPM software. “Having the source code available gives customers what they need: the ability to […]

The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) made an unscheduled visit to Intel’s offices in Seoul, South Korea, as part of its investigation into possible violations of that country’s Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act. The KFTC is looking into Intel’s business dealings with four South Korean PC makers. Intel spokesman Chuck Molloy said the visit […]

The Hyperwords Company has just launched a free add-on to the Firefox browser that brings hyperlinks to any word on the Web. “This isn’t just limited to word definitions,” Hyperwords CEO Frode Hegland told internetnews.com. “We let you interact with words in any number of ways. The user decides.” With Hyperwords loaded, you simply highlight […]

UPDATED: Borland Software made two divergent announcements today — an acquisition and plans to sell its integrated development environment (IDE) product lines. The purchase of Segue Software , the Lexington, Mass.-based provider of global software quality and testing solutions, is part of Borland’s plan to move aggressively into the market for delivery of software applications […]

Sun Microsystems is launching a business unit focused on sales of its hardware and software to other companies which will incorporate the technology into their products for sale. Known as OEM sales, Sun said the business covers all of its key hardware and software technologies “Our objective is to grow our OEM business by penetrating […]

Time Warner faces more headaches over an old problem -– disgruntled shareholders. The law firm of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, today announced a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over the takeover of AOL by Time Warner in 2001. The firm said it is representing approximately 100 institutional investors around the globe who have “opted-out” […]

IBM gained a significant partner in its efforts to expand the market for its Power architecture. Freescale Semiconductor announced it has joined the Power.org, the organization started by IBM to promote its Power architecture. Specifically, Freescale said it planned to work with IBM to develop a common instruction set and move the Power architecture in […]