Gretchen Hyman

Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Seagate Technology Holdings made a rousing return to Wall Street this week in an initial public offering that had analyst’s tongues wagging and shareholders chomping at the bit. However, the disk drive maker, which claims significant market share in the enterprise, personal computer, and consumer electronics desktop arena and recently reported fiscal […]

Gateway announced plans Tuesday to harness the power of its 8,000 showroom PCs that otherwise suck up resources for no particular cause. The Poway, Calif.-based computer maker has named its foray into grid computing ‘Gateway Processing On Demand,’ a service that delivers grid computing to organizations and businesses that don’t have access to supercomputing power […]

Better late than never. Poway, Calif.-based Gateway, Inc. declared its stake Monday in the emerging tablet PC market by announcing a slate style notebook module in partnership with Texas-based Motion Computing, a mobile computing and communications company founded by Dell , Compaq, Apple , and Fujitsu executives. The newly launched tablet PC will be co-branded […]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – The courtship between Hollywood and the Internet has gone on for years, but never before has it been more obvious to entertainment marketing strategists that the integration of the two is a match made in heaven. The Internet has become a platform that can happily marry advertisers, brand marketers, and content […]

Palm OS users might see the Mouseketeer more as a Scrooge. Walt Disney Co. earlier this week posted an internal memo clearly stating its company policy on personal digital assistants (PDAs), particularly as the holidays grow near and gadgetry gift giving is a strong if not inevitable likelihood for the technologically inclined. “My way or […]

Investors in the semiconductor industry had some reason to cheer Thursday as both AMD and rival Intel raised their fourth quarter outlooks. AMD said it expects fourth quarter sales in 2002 to reach $700 million, while Intel expects revenue to be between $6.8 billion and $7.0 billion for the same period. For AMD, the news […]

The push for an open industry standard that would enable consumers to print digital photos directly from their printers, bypassing the PC entirely, has gained significant industry support from Hewlett-Packard , Canon, Inc. , Fuji Photo Film Company , Sony Corporation , Olympus Optical Company, and Seiko Epson Corp. The six digital imaging power players […]

For diehard Napster fans, December 11 could mean more than just one more day in the Christmas countdown. Auctioneer DoveBid will host a webcast of Napster’s remaining fixed assets at The Marriott in Santa Clara, Calif., and bring to a conclusion the seemingly endless travails of the world’s most controversial file-swapping music service. Items for […]

Just three months after making its debut return in Denver, Ricochet, a wireless broadband Internet service provider, has re-activated its service in the San Diego area as part of a nationwide strategy to re-establish itself as a primary player in the high-speed wireless marketplace. In its heyday, Ricochet had wide reach in the wireless market, […]

Intel hit the ground running Monday by unveiling a dozen new additions to its Intel Xeon processor lineup. The new products, which include chipsets, processors, and platforms for Intel-based workstations and servers, will begin shipping by the end of the year, the company said. Gartner Dataquest is predicting that Intel’s new product releases could spark […]

With the video-on-demand (VoD) industry still in the early stages, N2H2, an Internet content filtering company, is waving the red flag over the possible bandwidth drain lengthy movie downloads could cost corporate America. While the VoD market has still not fully caught on for even the most committed movie-watching fanatics, there are still high expectations […]

On the heels of a similar licensing agreement with Handspring earlier this week, Research in Motion Limited (RIM) entered the preliminary stage of a deal with Palm Solutions Group to license certain patents for its thumb-operated keyboard technology. Today’s announcement builds on RIM’s solid positioning in the mobile communications space and is part of a […]