David Needle

Online job site company Dice, a major player in the online recruitment market, announced it was bought by two private equity firms. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. General Atlantic LLC and Quadrangle Group LLC, Dice’s new owners, said the current management team will continue to lead the company and remain “significant equity […]

One of Silicon Valley’s best known venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), added more star power to its lineup of partners with the announcement that former Secretary of State Colin Powell has become a strategic limited partner in the firm. KPCB has backed over 450 ventures, including such big names as Amazon […]

Score another one for AMD. Yesterday’s surprise raid on Intel offices by European regulators lent a nice bit of publicity to a case AMD will likely have to lead without the kind of support that anti-Microsoft groups mustered in the antitrust suit against the software giant. The EU raid followed on the heels of a […]

It may sound like something out of a garage sale, but the availability of a new Pentium III processor board is a big deal for a small segment of the computer-buying universe. On Monday, Parvus Corp. unveiled three ruggedized 800MHz Pentium III-based embedded processor boards: the SpacePC 1460, 1461 and 1463. These fanless, small form-factor […]

We’re not just IBM’s stuff. That’s not likely to be the slogan of the recently anointed third largest PC supplier in the world. But China-based Lenovo, best known in the U.S. as the company that bought IBM’s desktop and notebook computer line, is branching out. Levono has just announced a reseller agreement with Austin, TX-based […]

And it’s not just about the games. Rambus updated its high-bandwidth XDR memory interface technology to speed up 3D graphics, video imaging and network routing and switching applications. Rambus, a leading developer of chip interfaces, which it licenses to manufacturers, announced the details of the new XDR2 memory interface this week at a developer’s forum […]

CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), issued an alert today warning of heightened trojan virus attacks against companies and individuals. While there were numerous reports of slowdowns at various Web sites, the cause has largely been attributed to increased Web use following the Live8 multi-venu concert event and the terrorist bombings in London. Ken […]

With projected sales this year to total $33.1 billion, the market for semiconductor equipment would be the envy of most manufacturing sectors. But the sales projections just released by research firm Gartner represent an 11.9 percent drop over last year’s $37.58 billion in spending. This year started out well. Gartner says the first quarter of […]

Take two. Intel is pushing beyond its core semiconductor business by investing in a joint venture focused on distributing premium movies directly to consumers over the Internet. The company, ClickStar Inc., is spearheaded by Revelations Entertainment and run by movie actor Morgan Freeman and producer Lori McCreary. The service is expected to launch early next […]

Though an actual trial date is at least 18 months away, AMD’s lawsuit against rival Intel is picking up steam — and additional participants. The chipmaker has won a motion to serve document preservation subpoenas against computer makers, retailers, distributors and small system builders as part of its claim that Intel is an abusive monopoly […]

Analysis: In a famous Saturday Night Live skit, George Bush (the first) debates presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis. Doing his best Bush imitation, Dana Carvey stumbles, fumbles and blathers on trying to answer the moderator’s question. An articulate, if boring, Dukakis (aka Jon Lovitz) responds dejectedly “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!” AMD must […]

ANALYSIS: You have to hand it to Andy Grove. Lost in the buzz over Apple’s mega-deal to switch to Intel chips is the clever groundwork laid by Intel’s recently retired chairman and CEO. Andy Grove stunned more than a few observers by praising the Macintosh in a 1998 interview with Time magazine when he said […]