Gretchen Hyman

Runaway outsourcing might be taking a bigger bite out of the U.S. economy than previously thought, Integnology, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based engineering firm, said Wednesday. As increasing numbers of companies seek out more affordable IT services overseas in places like India, Russia, and parts of Asia, many industry watchers are saying that outsourcing options in […]

Dell Computer was tapped this week with the formidable task of providing thousands of desktop and laptop computers to Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. The three-year agreement between the computer maker and the nation’s largest non-profit health maintenance organization will provide an estimated 95,000 Dell OptiPlex desktop computers and 11,000 notebook computers to Kaiser’s extensive roster […]

Just in time for a predicted surge in the personal digital assistant (PDA) market over the course of 2003, Dallas-based semiconductor Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) unveiled a new chipset and concept design for a device that combines three primary networking technologies, among them Wi-Fi Internet capability. TI’s newest effort to ramp-up its wireless chipset offerings […]

Already reputed for its sophisticated line of mobile phones, Samsung Electronics allied itself this week with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based PalmSource, Inc, the software subsidiary of Palm Inc., to co-develop the first GSM-based, next-generation smartphone running on the Palm OS 5 platform. Shaped just like a standard smartphone, which PalmSource’s Michael Higashi describes as a “sleek, clam […]

In a recent advancement in the case of Rambus v. Infineon, Boston-based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP announced this week that it has filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of six major standard setting organizations (SDOs). Those SDOs include the Open GIS Consortium, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc., the […]

London’s prestigious Oxford University recently completed the deployment of a Dell Computer high-performance computing cluster solution its says will let the university’s physics professors take on the lofty task of studying the nature of the universe, Dell announced Tuesday. Dell and Oxford’s physics department began discussions nine months ago on the heels of a boost […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based broadband service provider Covad Communications announced plans this week to expand service offerings to Mac users, a move that is expected to lead to a noticeable uptick in its subscriber base. Covad’s first-ever offering to the Mac community includes high-speed Internet service for the Apple Macintosh platform and a simple self-install, plug-and-play […]

With increasing amounts of processing and storage power heating up the industry, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard announced a new data center solution aimed at cooling things off. The Smart Cooling of Data Centers’ concept was cooked up at Hewlett Packard Laboratories as an energy efficient “smart” cooling system it says reduces energy consumption of the […]

Open source developers might have reason to smile this week with the release of the Open Source Development Lab‘s (OSDL) suite of database workload tools, a first-ever offering that provides the same set of performance tools as used by many proprietary developers for testing commercial applications. The Oregon-based non-profit Linux consortium officially went to market […]

On the heels of its eighth forum and annual meeting in Beverly Hills, Calif. this week, The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) announced plans to form an outside content advisory board. The new board’s purpose, according to ISMA, will be to address pertinent issues facing the content owner community, which includes the protection of digital […]

While some wireless networks like Joltage recently shuttered its doors and San Jose, Calif.-based hot spot aggregator hereUare is still reeling from the loss of its partnership with MobileStar, wireless Internet service provider (WISP) Boingo Wireless was in forward motion this week adding a handful of new partnerships to its network and crowning itself the […]

There is safety in numbers, or in this case, greater supercomputing power, says Sun Microsystems . Furthering its research and development in high performance computing, Sun announced the formation of the ‘Sun North Carolina Research Triangle Center of Excellence,’ an academic alliance among seven prominent universities and institutions that have all made major contributions to […]