Michael Singer

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday said it has signed an agreement to build a massive digital content management system for a Cablevision Systems subsidiary. The six-figure deal with New York-based Rainbow Media Holdings includes consulting and implementation through service and support. The idea is to deliver any digital content from any source to any device. “We looked at […]

Targeting the enterprise sector, Polycom and Packeteer Monday inked a co-marketing deal to help drive interest in video conferencing over IP networks. While the Voice-over-Internet market has been trying to find its legs, Video conferencing using Web-based software is a business that grows between 70 and 80 percent a year. That has led Packeteer to […]

Semiconductor maker Centrality Communications Thursday introduced two new chips that combine six different controllers all on a single die. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm said its new Atlas processor family includes a 16-channel GPS baseband, Bluetooth baseband, Digital Camera, LCD controller, NAND Flash bootloader, and a parallel DSP core. The company said the processors are […]

A U.S. court Thursday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents Broadcom from selling one of its semiconductors in the United States. The District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division said Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom is barred from selling its BCM3415 silicon tuner and certain reference design boards containing the technology. The injunction comes […]

Hoping to expand its online conferencing universe, Latitude Communications Thursday inked a deal to acquire Los Altos, Calif.-based development firm Wanadu. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Latitude, known for its MeetingPlace platform, said the acquisition is a key step in its strategy to build virtual conferencing products that combine voice, Web, video and instant messaging technologies. Wanadu […]

The future of 64-bit computing will enter a new phase with the release of the Opteron processor by AMD next week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor is set to unveil its next-generation, 64-bit AMD Opteron processor (code named Sledgehammer) for servers and workstations on April 22 in New York City. The x86-64 chip will run at […]

Semiconductor maker Transmeta Thursday said it will start shipping its long-awaited TM8000 processor (also known as “Astro”) sometime after July 1. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company made the announcement during its quarterly earnings call. Financially, the company is seeing better numbers. For its fiscal first quarter, Transmeta posted a narrower first-quarter loss and a rise […]

Answering the need to cram more and more applications on handheld devices, Palm Thursday said it can expand the amount of random-access memory (RAM) possible on future Palm OS handhelds from the current 16MB size to 128MB. With a step up in memory, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based handheld computer maker said new versions of their […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Taking its cue from the financial industry’s generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), an Internet security board said it will soon finalize similar standards for protecting IT infrastructures. The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) this week said it will take ownership of completing the Generally Accepted Information Security Principles (GAISP). The idea is […]

On the road to making Web services as commonplace as e-mail, one open industry effort began preparations for the release of its compatibility platform. San Francisco-based Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Wednesday made public two testing tools for interoperability assessment with the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, which is due out this summer. The group says […]

Integrated circuit maker Synopsys Wednesday said it has signed agreement to acquire certain assets of Qualis out of Lake Oswego, Oregon. Mountain View, Calif.-based Synopsys said it will take over Qualis’ verification Intellectual Property assets and its affiliated companies. The platform performs verification methodology consulting and training. Synopsys said the master plan is to include […]

Continuing on its “Unwired” mantra, Intel Wednesday released three faster processors for mid to large sized laptops. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant released its Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor – M at 2.50 GHz and the mobile Intel Celeron processor at speeds of 2.20 and 1.26 GHz. Unlike the “thin and light” target […]