Erin Joyce

IBM’s next Power 5 microprocessors are slated to debut next year, but the Armonk, N.Y.-based company has begun teasing some details of the systems, whose innovations feature two 64-bit processors on a single chip. During the annual “Hot Chips” technology conference in Palo Alto, Calif., this week, IBM executives are unveiling new details about the […]

AT&T Wireless has joined with phone and electronics giant Samsung in their first joint offering of data, imaging, text messaging and other next-generation services on Samsung’s latest v206 phones. The companies said the first product to be marketed would be the v206, Samsung’s “clam-shell” designed phone that includes an embedded full color camera and full-color […]

The confluence of cable companies accelerating their roll-out of digital video and the growing influence that PCs are having as entertainment hubs in the consumer electronics world has created a familiar-looking land grab heating up in the software sector. This time, the inspiration for the burgeoning sequel to the Portal Wars are Interactive Programming Guides […]

As the open source faithful prepare to descend upon the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco the first week in August, Sun Microsystems is fine-tuning its own Linux message, and alliances. Despite a concerted effort to expand its support for Linux across more of its product lines, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems vendor still finds itself […]

America Online is about to release its latest client, AOL 9.0 Optimized for broadband and dial-up subscribers, which company officials call the most extensive upgrade in the history of the online service. The ISP’s latest release of AOL and AOL for Broadband services is expected to start with a “Members First” download campaign on Friday, […]

You might say that Avanquest, a publisher and distributor of software programs for small businesses, wants to expand its own version of “Star Search” for the next big breakout application. Take the example of the postal worker in a European country whose little DVD-related program, which lets people make back-up copies of their DVDs for […]

Sun Microsystems plans to offer aggressively low prices for its upcoming bundled platform of servers and middleware systems, called Project Orion, with a per-employee licensing model, the company’s chief software architect said Monday. “The cost of deploying Orion will be dramatically less than the cost of hand-assembling a lot of different parts,” on an enterprise […]

EMC Wednesday is planning to unveil a refresh of its high-end storage systems, the Symmetrix DMX line, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The sources told internetnews.com these particular revisions include enhanced interface support and advanced replication capabilities. “EMC is stepping up their ability for these issues,” the sources said. The Symmetrix DMX […]

With Linux creator Linus Torvalds now firmly in place at Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), the non-profit group dedicated to Linux development and advancement has now gained the credibility to court big name multinational corporations like consumer product giant Unilever as its newest member. In fact, Unilever’s membership in the open-source group also marks the […]

Enterprise software provider Computer Associates said revenue rose during its fiscal first quarter of 2004 in part because of a new “on-demand” approach to pricing and products it recently rolled out. Total revenue for the first quarter was $813 million, a 6 percent increase over total revenue generated in the first quarter of fiscal year […]

America Online , on the cusp of releasing an ambitious new upgrade of its service later this summer, has hired the former chief technology officer at Merrill Lynch and GE Capital to help lead the charge with the ISP’s technology strategies. As new CTO for AOL, John McKinley is expected to direct the ISP’s technology […]

Profits for computer services giant EDS plunged by 56 percent for the second quarter, as the company weathered a sharp drop in IT spending and braced for more charges because of accounting rule changes. The Plano, Texas-based EDS said net income for the quarter was $138 million, (28 cents per share), which was down 56 […]