Michael Singer

Microsoft Thursday said it will settle a private antitrust lawsuit brought by AOL Time Warner on behalf of its Netscape unit. The agreement sparked a $750 million payout from Microsoft to AOL in exchange for new opportunities to jointly develop and support steps for digital media technology and digital rights management (DRM) initiatives. Microsoft Chairman […]

PDA maker Palm Thursday said it has paired with some well-connected friends to bolster its latest handheld device, the Tungsten C. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm announced five agreements with technology companies for voice over IP (VoIP) , Wi-Fi, and authentication software based on protocol developed by Cisco Systems . The new partnerships include VoIP-player […]

Apple Computer Tuesday released the latest version of its digital jukebox iTunes. While the software has been instrumental in the success of the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker’s new iTunes Music Store, version 4.0.1 is rubbing some users the wrong way. The software and store offers 30-second demos and lets users burn songs onto an unlimited […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday said began shipping CDs of the latest version of its Clustering Software as a prelude to the launch of the company’s biggest projects this year. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said it has reached the crucial version 3.1 of its software framework. A key component of the company’s SunPlex environment, […]

Handheld computer maker Palm Wednesday said it has again courted British phone maker Orange SA to help it sell its Tungsten line of products. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm said the companies will offer the “Orange bureau” service powered by the Palm Tungsten W handheld computer, scheduled for release in France this summer via Orange’s […]

A federal jury Tuesday ordered online auction giant eBay to pay $35 million in damages after it found the company infringed on several patents owned by Great Falls, Va.-based MercExchange. The jury reached its unanimous verdict Tuesday in a civil court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk, saying […]

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Tuesday took the wraps off two new versions of its TX49 family of MIPS-based reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessors. The new chips, designated TMPR4955CFG-400 (32-bit) and TMPR4956CXBG-400 (64-bit), are the first in company history fabricated with 90-nanometer (nm) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology and are based on the […]

Seeing a cash cow in the burgeoning Instant Messaging sector, Hewlett-Packard Monday announced a deal to become a worldwide distribution and development partner with Denver-based Jabber Inc. As part of the deal, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker will be jointly selling Jabber on its existing Linux-based and HP-UX platforms as well as […]

Modem manufacturing company PCTEL is taking a broader swing at its competition in the form of a patent lawsuit. The Chicago-based company filed claims last Friday against Agere Systems , Broadcom , Lucent Technologies and U.S. Robotics saying the competition is using its copyrighted technology, in particular V.90 (56 KBPS) modems. The suit, filed in […]

Seeing an opportunity in the small and medium business sector, Intel Monday launched a new program to help educate customers on how to select a server system with its Xeon processors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it will work with distributors, dealers, system builders, original equipment manufacturers, and other partners on its “real server […]

Once, RISC-based server machines were faster and more powerful. But now many IT buyers now are abandoning the once-popular UNIX architecture because of their proprietary nature and instead opting for advanced x86 architectures, which are starting to match UNIX in computing power but are cheaper to maintain. But instead of a two-horse race, the development […]

Net6, a network-based application transformation gateway provider, Thursday released a new software feature that can turn IP telephones into a company-wide PA system. Available today, the new ScreenTop Push Server is a soft blade module of the San Jose, Calif.-based firm’s Transformation Gateway platform. The software allows management to send broadcast alerts and messages to […]