Michael Chait

With the race to provide broader wireless services continuing to heat up, Sprint Thursday took a major charge, becoming the first U.S. carrier to complete a nationwide 3G 1X network upgrade. 3G , a shortened acronym for third-generation wireless networks, has long been touted as the technological link to bring true data capabilities to the […]

Pushing forward in its head-to-head battle with Intel for the flash memory market, AMD Wednesday announced the immediate availability of its latest low power consumption flash memory device. The Am29BDS640G Flash memory, AMD’s new 1.8 volt 64Megabit device, will be capitalized in the hand-held portable and cellular markets, where a low voltage format can extend […]

The adoption of the recently developed Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) got a significant boost Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Stock Market, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers teaming up to show off the new platform for corporate reporting over the Internet. The three organizations have joined together on a pilot program to showcase the XML-based platform’s ability to […]

Looking to drive the adoption of Web services as a mechanism to extend industry integration to financial institutions of all sizes, the banking industry’s wire transfer backbone, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) today signed an alliance agreement with Web service integration firm IONA . SWIFT is a community of financial institutions that […]

IBM Friday introduced an expanded version of its eServer UNIX cluster, which doubles the capacity of its predecessor, scaling up to 32 fully configured POWER4 processor-based eServer p690 systems. A cluster is a collection of interconnected computers used as a unified computing resource with a single administrative domain. Clusters enable businesses to consolidate servers, or […]

Saifun Semiconductors Wednesday agreed to bury the legal hatchet with rivals AMD and Fujitsu, pledging to instead cross-license patents and technology and collaborate in the development of non-volatile memory with the firms. As part of the collaboration, AMD and Fujitsu will also take an equity stake in Israeli-based Saifun. The lawsuit, filed by Saifun In […]

Bill Gates didn’t sound quite like himself speaking Monday at the third annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond. While his usual adoration for technology and innovation was present, so was an unusual praise for open source. Despite Microsoft’s long-standing and much-publicized stance against sharing code, Gates touted the Shared Source Initiative, which makes source […]

Continuing in its heated battle for the top spot in the storage management software sector, Veritas Software Monday outlined its expansion strategy for the Linux storage market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has pledged to provide Linux versions of the same storage management solutions they provide for UNIX and Windows, released its clustering and […]

Three new flaws were discovered in Microsoft products that could allow a malicious user to cause havoc on your machine. The flaws were discovered in SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Metadirectory Services 2.2, and would allow a hacker to accomplish a variety of attacks. The most serious threat comes from the vulnerability in […]

With the battle over interactive television (iTV) middleware still brewing strong in both the markets and the courtrooms, one of the space’s major player, Liberate Technologies, Wednesday made a move to enhance their voice and data services. The San Carlos, Calif.-based company signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sigma Systems Group, a provider of cable […]

With the culmination of the holiday season a mere 156 days away, experts remain concerned about the problem of online trust that still plagues the ecommerce arena. Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign wants to bring its business to the forefront of the issue, Tuesday unveiling its “Trusted Commerce” initiative to raise awareness around the need for […]

Continuing to push its Visualization strategy, Sun Microsystems today unveiled the development release program for the Sun(TM) XVR-4000 graphics accelerator. The development release will allow software vendors and customers to thoroughly test and tune the new graphics technology for performance and stability, before the final release, which is expected to come before the end of […]