Michael Chait

The battle between Speedera Networks and Akamai Technologies has intensified as the content delivery rivals traded lawsuits and the FBI reportedly raided Speedera’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. Speedera announced Wednesday that it filed claim this week against Akamai in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California for unfair competition, false advertising, trade libel and […]

Continuing its campaign to make a name for itself in the mobile software space, Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS) on Tuesday announced plans to introduce a mobility communications platform that promises to bring the functionality of a fixed office over a WLAN . Currently in development, Toshiba’s Mobility Communications System (MCS) would provide mobile […]

IBM Monday became the first major company to address the need for a hybrid FPGA/ASIC chip, signing an agreement with Xilinx to bring broad adjustment programmability to its recently announced CU-08 Chip. Under the agreement, IBM has licensed field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology from Xilinx for integration into IBM’s recently-announced Cu-08 application specific integrated […]

IBM Thursday took a new tack in its quest to lure financial service companies into using its Linux-based servers, with a move to open a New York City-based technology center. The Linux center, which will be based in IBM’s Manhattan building, will include hardware, software and services from IBM as well as various participating companies, […]

In an attempt to fend off competition on multiple fronts, Sun Microsystems is hoping to fortify its position by giving away its applications server software for free. With the so-called Web Services approach increasingly used in software integration, the application server has become a key part of Sun’s vision for the future of computing. The […]

As the need for digital signal processor (DSP) technologies continues to grow, Europe’s No. 2 chipmaker, Infineon Technologies and American companies Agere Systems and Motorola Tuesday agreed to create a new company to serve the DSP market. The newly formed company, StarCore, LLC, will develop and license DSP “cores” to perform high-speed mathematical computations for […]

Continuing in its campaign to attract Mac users to its traditionally pc-focused software, Microsoft was slated to release its latest version of Internet Explorer for the Mac OS X Monday. At press time, however, the Redmond-based software giants download site showed no sign of the new version, leaving Mac-users again left waiting. Internet Explorer 5.2 […]