Mark Berniker

Tellabs Tuesday moved to pick up privately-held, San Jose-based Vivace Networks for $135 million in an effort to beef up its offering with edge routers and switches. Vivace has only been around for four years, but Tellabs believes the acquisition will help it get back to profitability, after the steep falloff in telecommunications equipment sales […]

Daniel Mao has stepped down as CEO of Chinese Internet media company SINA.com and will be replaced Wang Yan, the president of the portal, the company said Monday. A press release did not give any reason for Mao’s departure, but said he will remain on the SINA board of directors. Yan has been the president […]

New studies from the technology research firms Yankee Group and Techtel point to the persistent challenges plaguing the enterprise information technology market. The Yankee study said “enterprises are forcing their IT organizations to reduce operational expenses; but they also expect IT to help the company deal with competitive pressures by developing an infrastructure capable of […]

As a result of the ongoing financial crisis in California, legislators are no longer willing to forego revenues generated by sales taxes on Internet purchases. On Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax for purchases made over the Internet. California […]

Red Hat and IT hardware-provider Fujitsu are expanding their collaboration on open-source operating systems, in a partnership agreement that could help Linux win over more hearts and minds of IT executives mulling Linux for mission-critical applications. Under their expanded partnership, the Linux distributor and Fujitsu plan to “technically enhance and market” Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]

Updated: The economic impact of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) on the Asian information technology industry is becoming more acute; the World Health Organization has reported more than 500 dead and 7000 infected since the pneumonia-like illness was identified. Several technology companies are now citing SARS as a reason for declining financial results, and more […]

Motorola, Inc. is out with a new digital cable set-top box that combines high-definition television and personal video recording technology. Motorola Broadband Communications Sector says its DCT6000 Series is the first box to integrate both HDTV and PVR functions. The new boxes add new features and “increased processing power, digital interfaces to digital television (DTV) […]

RealNetworks wants to port its expertise in desktop media downloading to mobile devices in the future. RealNetworks is launching what it is calling RealOne Mobile Guide, which will deliver news, sports and other audio, music and video clips to users with sophisticated mobile phones and wireless devices that operate with some of biggest wireless carriers […]

In yet another odd twist to an even stranger case, Stephen Michael Cohen, who was convicted of stealing the Web site Sex.com and later went on the lam, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case. Cohen is fighting to overturn several lower court judgments, which found him guilty stealing the domain […]

With the one-year anniversary of its Compaq merger nearing, Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a spate of new products from its integrated tech house — all geared for small to medium-sized businesses. HP has been phasing out some of its Compaq-branded products for the enterprise sector since the two tech giants concluded their merger last May […]

Microsoft Corp. is out with its new business portal that aims to make its software and service the point-of-entry for corporations. Microsoft said in a press release it has created the portal for companies “employees, suppliers and customers with easy access to information and processes that are critical to maximizing efficiency and profitability, all from […]

When America Online , Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! on Monday announced they would join hands to fight spam, many people took notice but security experts say the “Big Three” online portals lack the will or the knowhow to solve the growing spam crisis. “The three companies getting together to fight spam is just a press […]