Michael Singer

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Outgoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Michael Powell offered sobering advice to an IT industry eager to rollout Voice over IP services. “You will not be a rock star forever,” Powell said during his keynote at the Voice on the Net tradeshow here today. “Be prepared for that day and identify how […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — AOL will launch its own brand of software next month that uses the Internet to make phone calls, said Jonathan Miller, AOL chairman and CEO, during his keynote at the VON Spring 2005 show here today. AOL Internet Phone Service is expected to have the same look, feel, feature set and […]

AMD is preparing to adjust its marquee processors for use in embedded applications, internetnews.com has learned. The strategy focuses on altering AMD’s entire x86 64-bit family — Opteron, Athlon 64 and the upcoming Turion — so that the chips can be used in new form factors like blade servers and in applications such as embedded […]

Broadcom said it has agreed to acquire Bluetooth chipmaker Zeevo to expand its chipset business. Under the terms of the deal, Broadcom will be paying privately held Zeevo’s shareholders $32 million in a combination of $29.4 million in cash and $2.6 million in restricted stock. Zeevo makes Bluetooth platforms that combine analog, digital and radio […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A new storage specification designed for next-generation handhelds and portable consumer electronics devices is one step closer to becoming an industry standard. Just six months after the Consumer Electronics-ATA initiative (CE-ATA) was launched, a final 1.0 specification was published by the CE-ATA Working Group at Intel Developer Forum here this week. CE-ATA […]

IBM is moving quickly behind the scenes to hand over the reigns of its legendary PC business to the new Lenovo company. The $1.25 billion sale is on pending a national security review, but IBM tapped two executives this week for Lenovo’s business partner sales and channels organization. IBM executives expect the deal will close […]

If the old adage that, “Nothing succeeds like excess,” rings true, the semiconductor industry is happy to be living the more moderate path. A report issued today by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said worldwide microchip sales in January dropped to $18.3 billion, half a percent below December sales of $18.4 billion. On the bright […]

For a second time, a U.S. judge has shot down an appeal by Rambus in its patent infringement case against Infineon Technologies . The five-year-old lawsuit is based on Rambus’ claims that its German rival copied its SDRAM and DDR DRAM memory designs and began using them without paying licensing fees. The rulings came after […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is aligning its chips and related technologies to help your laptop and handset get to know each other a little better. While conversations between PCs and phones are quite commonplace, the chatter usually takes place over a wired cradle or a Bluetooth connection. But Intel is approaching the situation with a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is looking for a larger share of the computer memory marketplace and will double its 2005 product line to do it, the company said Wednesday. The chipmaking giant said it is introducing several NOR flash memory products for the cellular and embedded markets. Intel said it is also adopting a new […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is taking stock in its enterprise-focused processors to compete more voraciously against offerings from IBM and AMD . The No. 1 chipmaker said it is initially focusing on five new dual-core Itanium, Xeon and Pentium processors to handle business needs from the mainframe to the server to the client. The company’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Two of the biggest forces in the IT industry called on developers to begin porting their applications to x86-based 64-bit architectures. Microsoft and Intel said hardware and software pieces are in place to convert the computing industry away from a 32-bit Wintel ecosystem to a world where all platforms, from servers and […]