Michael Singer

Chipmaker Transmeta Monday said it has inked a deal to embed its low-power chips in a family of firewall products made by Taiwan-based IBASE Technology. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Transmeta said its 800 MHz Crusoe TM5800 will power the FWA7000, a fast and fan-less Firewall/VPN platform. The company says the chip’s speed makes it ideal for […]

Similar to the way that automobile dealers take trade-ins when making a new car purchase, Gateway Monday launched an initiative that would let its customers get credit for their old PCs. The Poway, Calif.-based computer maker began offering its on-site removal under the guise of its “Gateway Asset Recovery Services”. The plan incorporates End of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Honing their competitive edge, two Silicon Valley-based heavyweights reinforced a 20-year old relationship with a new partnership entitled “Oracle Makes Sun Unbreakable.” At a press conference in here, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun and Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said they would work together to consolidate resources including development, reference architectures, service partners and […]

Forget your P4s and your Athlons, Tadpole Computer is relying on SPARC chips to sell its latest line of notebooks. The Cupertino, Calif.-based hardware firm Monday unveiled a new entry-level 64-bit laptop called “SPARCLE” running with up to 650 MHz processor speed, 2GB of RAM, 80GB hard drive and weigh less than 7 pounds. With […]

After nearly two years since Mac OS X release, Microsoft this week said it has released a version of its Internet subscription service designed specifically for the latest Apple Computer operating system. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it is offering MSN version 8 for Mac OS X via MSN dial-up service or as a […]

Seems like everything old is new again in the chip industry. The World Semiconductor Council (WSC) met this week and issued strong recommendations on a broad range of policy objectives of importance to the global semiconductor industry. At the seventh annual event in Nice, France, WSC membership called for China to open its market fully […]

Expect a second beta version of J2EE v1.4 to come out in the next few weeks. That’s the word from Sun Microsystems which is preparing for next month’s Java ONE confab in San Francisco. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker told internetnews.com that it has all its ducks in a row when it comes […]

Intel CEO Craig Barrett Thursday predicted bad things will happen to those companies that don’t begin to upgrade their old equipment in the near term. “The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade,” Barrett said in a briefing before its analyst conference in New York. “The U.S., Western Europe and […]

Chip design company MIPS Technologies Thursday said it will have to restructure its business in order to make sure the rest of the year is not a loss. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm, which competes with British-owned ARM Holdings , said it will fire about 60 employees and contractors or approximately one-third of the company’s […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Looking ahead to faster networks, Cisco Systems Wednesday said its development road for Ethernet will more than likely take a stop at the 40-Gigabit Ethernet (40-GbE) station. Sometimes referred to at T-2, 40-GbE/OC-768 is being developed to meet ever-growing demands for bandwidth. The technology uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) to […]

Apple Computer may be onto something big with its new iTunes Music Store store. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker Wednesday said upwards of two million songs have been purchased and downloaded since it was launched 16 days ago. Similar to the trend set during the first week, more than half of the songs purchased to […]

Computer maker Gateway Wednesday said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego has opened a criminal investigation focused on the company’s accounting practices. The probe is directly related to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inquiry into Gateway’s bundled AOL Internet services in 2000 and the first quarter of 2001. Company spokesman Bob Sherbin told […]