Mark Berniker

Speaking at the annual CeBIT electronics fair in Hannover, Germany, Lucent Technologies CEO Patricia Russo said the severe decline in the global telecommunications sector may be turning around. On Tuesday, Lucent also announced ten business partnerships with European companies with potential value of more than $220 million. While Russo tried to dispel the gloom in […]

After several years of sluggish information technology spending, a new study expects a slight increase in enterprise IT budgets over the next six to twelve months. Aberdeen Group, based in Boston, said Monday it sees IT budgets growing by 2.7 percent over the next six to twelve months. The numbers comes from its quarterly survey […]

Caldera Systems’ parent company, SCO Group, filed a lawsuit charging IBM Corp. of misusing a Unix software license, which in turn allegedly cost the software development company billions of dollars of revenue. The suit, filed Thursday in Utah state court in Salt Lake City, alleges IBM has shared trade secrets regard Unix with members of […]

As the problem of e-mail spam gets worse, a research standards group has decided to take on the task of how to combat the huge number of unwanted messages being sent to Internet subscribers. The Internet Research Task Force, an organization associated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is convening what it calls the […]

Intel officials in Singapore Wednesday signed a deal to try to link different wireless and fixed networks, in an effort to setup a system for seamless roaming across Asia. Intel’s $2.25 million deal for the project is with Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), with Intel owning 60 percent and the IDA controlling 40 percent. Telecommunications […]

Lindows.com has won a court ruling that will allow it to review an enormous amount of legal evidence from an old battle between Apple Computer and Microsoft . Originally slated for April 7, rhe Microsoft-Lindows.com jury trial has been delayed until December 2003, which will give Lindows.com nearly ten months to review more than 300 […]

Broadcom is acquiring the assets of Gadzoox Networks for close to $5.8 million in cash. Broadcom is specifically acquiring Gadzoox Fibre Channel technology, which is storage network technology that is interoperable with older networks and will enable it to offer business data center packages. Back in January, Gadzoox sought the approval from the bankruptcy court […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on a tour in China said his company will allow the Chinese government partial access to the source code of its Windows operating system. Microsoft said it would only share some details about its proprietary source code, but it’s considered a major win for Microsoft to have China join its Government […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is on a two-day visit to China to drum up business is the world’s single biggest market. Gates is meeting with top government officials and several computer, telecommunications and banking executives. Gates is positioning Microsoft ahead of a planned restructuring of several key Chinese government ministries, including that which regulates the […]

Qualcomm’s code division multiple access, or CDMA technology received a boost, after signing a deal for a new joint venture with China Unicom . Qualcomm and China United Telecommunications Corp. have been working together for some time, and since the partners launched a CDMA mobile phone network in China last year. Qualcomm has garnered strong […]

IDT Tuesday made a bid in bankruptcy court Tuesday for the troubled fiber optic company Global Crossing Ltd. for $255 million. IDT’s bid comes as Global Crossing is seeking final regulatory approval from U.S. government security agencies for the sale of the company for $250 million to Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies […]

Tenzing Communications is partnering with Airbus and Rockwell Collins to launch a new high-speed radio service that will provide live Internet connections for airline passengers. Tenzing’s technology utilizes current antenna technology, and because it provides the ability to send and receive e-mail while in the air, it is a competitor to Connexion, Boeing’s in-flight Internet […]