Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — If the Internet is going to get anymore secure, U.S. businesses will have to keep on guarding it and locking it down one piece at a time. Calling the country’s “National Strategy for Securing Cyber Security” a mosaic, White House Cyber Security Advisor Howard Schmidt Tuesday said concerns about IT infrastructure are […]

Intel is trying to make lemonade out of its lemon first quarter. The chipmaking giant Tuesday posted lower first-quarter earnings but predicted its second quarter would be better based on new products coming out in the next three months. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said its net income for the quarter was $915 million, or […]

With an eye towards expanding its chips into markets outside the PC realm, Intel Monday unveiled two new Pentium M processors it says are designed specifically for communications applications. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said the chips could help speed the processing and routing of data within modular, high-density networking equipment. A 1.60 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — You are not as safe surfing the Web this year as you were last year, according to a recent consensus of online security experts. To help keep track of problem, online encryption firm RSA Monday launched its “Internet Insecurity Index” — a simple one-to-ten scale that measures how secure electronic data is […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Two Silicon Valley technology players have teamed up to help prevent security threats in a single box. Sun Microsystems and Symantec Monday said they will launch a dedicated security appliance later this month. Based on Sun’s entry-level LX50 designs, the server runs the Solaris Platform Edition operating system for x86-based systems with […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Digital security company VeriSign Monday launched its new Trust Gateway platform to help with the need to rollout secure Web services . The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm best known for its domain registrar business said the framework simplifies application security by eliminating the need for developers to write security code into each […]

SAN FRANCISCO — With an eye to guarding against online vulnerabilities, members of an Internet interoperability consortium Monday announced plans for a new computer language designed for securing Web services . The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) said it plans to define its Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) as soon as […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Looking to tame the wild world of Web services , the Liberty Alliance Friday submitted new network identity specifications to an industry standards board for use in future version of the SAML authentication language. Pronounced “Sam-el,” its XML-based framework helps secure transmitted communications over the Internet. SAML is also important because it […]

While the rest of the industry scrambles to sell cheaper, slimmed down models, Gateway Monday released a $3,499 multimedia PC it says is “optimized for digital media hobbies.” The 700XL is the company’s most expensive desktop offering and the first Gateway PC that uses RAID technology — two hard drives acting as one — as […]

The chip recovery predicted this year is getting mixed sentiment between trade groups and industry analysts. Despite predictions of growth of about 21 percent to $169 billion in 2003 by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), analysts with Deutsche Bank Securites say the conflict overseas could give the chip sector a bad case of “Iraqtic Behavior.” […]

For the longest time, Sun Microsystems touted itself as a supporter of open standards, but kept its Solaris operating environment as a close-knit community built around its SPARC processors. The company has since shifted its software support strategy, one that may put its own semiconductors out of commission. Last year Sun made the choice to […]

Companies that outsource their chip manufacturing have gotten more than their fair share of respect in the past six months, according to one industry group. A report released this week by the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) shows fabless plants experienced quarter-over-quarter growth in VC funding for the second straight quarter, growing 23 percent in 1Q […]