Gretchen Hyman

Cisco Systems, Inc. put out the call Tuesday that the wheels are in motion to acquire privately held Andiamo Systems, Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of network data storage equipment. In anticipation of explosive growth within the storage area network (SAN) market, which Gartner Group predicts will balloon from a $1.2 billion industry in […]

Sybase made a splash at its own conference this year by parading out a line of new products and unveiling three new partnerships, including an extended relationship with PeopleSoft . Among its new products, Sybase released the beta version of the Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0, the company’s primary rapid application development (RAD) tool for supporting Microsoft.NET. […]

After laying out an estimated $260 million in stock three years ago to purchase the West Coast auction house Butterfields, eBay has switched its modus operandi away from the expansive world of bricks-and-mortar auctioneering and sold Butterfields to London-based Bonhams Auctioneers. EBay reportedly sold the auction house for only a fraction of what it paid […]

The 802.11b standard, or Wi-Fi revolution as it is being called by many, might be the greatest thing since slice bread for tech savvy wireless users, but for big business Internet Service Providers (ISPs) it is akin to stealing the wool off a sheep’s back. Wi-Fi has spawned huge numbers of community networks that piggyback […]

Despite a dip in industry confidence, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. forged ahead Monday with shipments of its MirrorBit Flash memory devices, the latest advancement in AMD’s family of Flash memory products. Last week ended with a wave of uncertainty among AMD’s industry peers regarding the future of the MirrorBit when brokerage firm Credit Suisse First […]

After establishing its new digs in Santa Monica, Calif. last week, IP-based video-on-demand (VoD) service Movielink added four technology veterans to its roster of executive personnel, two of which come from close industry rivals Intertainer.com and DIRECTV. Slated to launch before the end of this year, the distribution service, which is backed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount […]

The much-ballyhooed Itanium 2 Processor from Intel Corporation makes its official debut this week following a flurry of media hype and expectation that it will soon outpace competitive offerings from rivals Sun Microsystems and Advanced Micro Devices and become the processor platform of choice for the high-end data computing industry. Following the splashy May, 2002 […]

On the heels of a successful initial public offering last month in which the online DVD rental service pocketed $82 million in cash, Netflix, Inc. Thursday announced the expansion of its U.S. distribution centers. Betting its chips on the skyrocketing popularity of DVD rentals and sales that are quickly outpacing those of VHS, the Los […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Covad Communications announced Wednesday that SBC Communications will continue honor all previous line-sharing agreements with the DSL provider. On the rebound from bankruptcy last year, Covad is SBC’s largest wholesale customer and farms out broadband services to WorldCom, NewEdge. DSL.net, Speakeasy, and Earthlink, among others. Covad also maintains line-sharing contracts with the […]

Mountain View, Calif.-based DevX, an information and services destination for IT developers, this week announced a partnership with Qualcomm Inc., DevX has been tapped to explain the benefits and potentiality of Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), an open, standard platform for wireless applications development. Financial terms of the DevX/Qualcomm partnership were not available, […]

With the ever-watchful eye of Big Brother becoming more of a reality, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based civil liberties organization, this week released an updated list on some of the best methods for maintaining online privacy. Scribed by EFF Technology Director Stanton McCandlish, “EFF’s Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy,” […]

Underscoring the lukewarm reception digital music subscription services have so far received from the online music community, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group made heads turn this week. The two music giants unveiled a strategy intended to cool the fire for digital piracy and make discounted burnable music tracks available to online music retailers […]