Gretchen Hyman

In preparation for the release of its first mobile computing brand, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel announced this week that it has re-named its Banias mobile technology to Centrino. Banias was formerly the code name for the processor component in Intel’s new wireless platform and was named after the river in Israel where the processor was […]

Los Angeles cyber youth are the subject of a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department following a yearlong streak of violence at citywide cyber cafes. On Monday, Dec. 30, Los Angeles police reported a PC game-related dispute outside a cyber cafe called NetStreet in the Northridge area of the city that involved several […]

As the use of pop-up and pop-under advertising has proliferated across the Web over the past year, many Web surfers and the browsers that serve them have taken a stance against this often annoying form of advertising that can clutter a desktop faster than a spray of locusts. In recent months, the movement to oppose […]

Over this past year, Global Crossing, weathered a storm of public and legal scrutiny that led to its near collapse, bankruptcy, and eventual court-ordered restructuring. But on the tail end of a year that brought the voice and data carrier tumbling from the top of the telecommunications heap, Gary Winnick, company founder and chairman of […]

Next Level Communications is jump-starting the New Year with the addition of three new telecommunications companies to its roster of broadband equipment clients. The Rohnert Park, Calif.-based firm, which provides integrated broadband platforms for the delivery of voice and data packages, this week announced contracts with KMTelecom of Minnesota, Venus Telephone Corp. of Pennsylvania, and […]

Offline retail establishments may be crying foul over the weak economy this holiday season but Internet retailers and outlets struck gold this year with record sales, a strong indication, say Internet retail analysts, that consumers are generally more satisfied with the online shopping experience and will come back for more. Los Angeles-based e-commerce research firm […]

A key group of consumer electronics and cable companies struck an agreement to streamline the cable television industry by enabling consumers to buy digital televisions (DTVs) that connect directly to digital cable, without the need for ancillary cable products such as set-top converter boxes. Under the preliminary agreement, 14 consumer electronics companies and seven key […]

Hector Ruiz, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is so far keeping his promise of releasing a flurry of new products into the microprocessor market within the coming months. Over the past few weeks, AMD began shipping its latest Athlon MP 2400+ processor for high-performance servers and workstations, and AMD is also slated […]

Redwood City, Calif.-based Tumbleweed Communications settled a patent infringement lawsuit this week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against service providers DST Systems, Inc. and NewRiver, Inc. The settlement amount was not disclosed, although there will be a royalty of four cents per each delivery of electronic information using a […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a 12-month contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technology solutions for future Department of Defense needs. Sun was invited by DARPA in October to develop studies on the architecture of future high-performance computers along with four competitors: […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Advanced Micro Devices announced the formation of two separate business units Monday that will function under the wings of its Memory Group. The Memory Group develops Flash memory products, one of AMD’s biggest money makers. According to AMD, the Embedded and Wireless Business units were formed to bolster sales within emerging markets for […]

In an effort to capture last minute shopping stragglers for the holiday season, Yahoo! cast its net today in the form of a Last Minute Gift Center. The site is a spin-off from Yahoo!’s Shopping Gift Center, which maintains affiliations with more than 13,000 retail partners. This year marks the third year Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! […]