Michael Singer

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday extended a lifeline to its more than 210,000 HP commercial partners around the globe in more than 160 countries through the formation of a worldwide partner framework. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker announced the rollout of its partnerONE initiative in Asia Pacific and Latin America as well as recent enhancements […]

Graphics chipmaker NVIDIA Tuesday took the wraps off two new core logic chips designed for the desktop, tweaked for gaming. The newest members of its NVIDIA nForce platform processor family-the NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 and NVIDIA nForce2 400 are part of the Santa Clara-based company’s popular product line. The processors use NVIDIA’s Unified Driver Architecture […]

NEC Corp. Monday took the wraps off a new handheld PC the company says is perfectly suited for workers in the field. At $899, the new MobilePro 900 features an Intel XScale PXA255 processor with 64MB RAM Base SDRAM. While the “clamshell” design is not expected to compete heavily with the Palm and Pocket PC […]

Looking ahead by watching the past, AMD Tuesday took the wraps of its latest PC processor, the Athlon XP 3200+. The chip designed primarily for the desktop may be the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker’s last stand in its Barton-core XP line before making the jump to “Clawhammer” architecture in September. The 3200+ chip runs at […]

Hewlett-Packard Monday expanded its product offerings from its ProCurve Networking division. Designed to compete with products from networking gear makers Cisco Systems and 3Com as well as targeting wired and wireless networking managers, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker unveiled its Secure Access 700wl Series, Enterprise Access Point 520wl and Universal VoIP Infrastructure […]

Intel Monday said an electrical glitch in one of its server chips could end up crashing a system and wiping out its data. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said researchers in its laboratories found the flaw in its 900 MHz and 1 GHz Itanium 2 processors during a series of stress tests last […]

Sprint’s PCS Group is yodeling about a new content deal with Yahoo! . The No. 4 carrier and the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet media company Thursday announced an agreement to distribute Yahoo! products and services to PCS Vision customers nationwide. The deal includes such popular applications as Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger as well as information […]

Preparing for a faster class of servers and systems, Intel this week updated its compilers to version 7.1. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its latest tweaking includes support for its Intel Pentium M processor, which is part of its Centrino mobile technology. A compiler translates a high-level programming language, such as C++, […]

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Palm’s next generation operating system will be just as radical and just as controversial as its current OS. The parent company’s Milpitas, Calif.-based spin-off software division PalmSource said this week that Palm OS 6.0 is expected by the end of the year with products shipping as early as 2004. “OS 6 […]

Looking to better network more sophisticated devices, Intel Wednesday released a next generation specification designed to boost Serial ATA (SATA) performance. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant released the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) v0.95 and is currently seeking comment. The specification allows for a standard interface to system driver/OS software to discover use […]

Apple Computer is closing the book on its Jaguar operating system with the latest patch, which it released Tuesday. Mac OS X, Version 10.2.6 (code-named “Jaguar Black”) makes only minor adjustments to the Address Book, graphics, printing, OpenGL, and PC card and USB hub device compatibility. For example, the upgrade addresses an issue for Mac […]

Texas Instruments threw down the gauntlet Wednesday saying it will “expand its presence” in the CDMA market. At its annual analysts’ meeting in Dallas, TI said it will begin offering CDMA2000 products to a broad base of customers beginning next quarter. The company also said it is on track to produce a single-chip cell phone, […]