Michael Singer

RF Micro Devices said it will stop making internal wireless local area network (WLAN) chipsets and instead focus on other parts of its business. The company best known for making cell phone chips said it will now focus more on its linear power amplifier modules and Bluetooth products. As part of the restructuring, RF Micro […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel CEO Craig Barrett may be leaving his post this year, but he won’t be going quietly. The outgoing executive used his time at his last Intel Developers Forum to lambaste the government’s adoption rate with broadband technologies, and blast its level of investment in both K-12 education and scientific R&D at […]

IBM is reinvesting in the Eclipse Project with new vigor after spending the better part of last year in the background. At this week’s EclipseCon event in California, Big Blue is expected to announce that it will contribute developer tools and resources tailored for developers that will link its open source Cloudscape project and Eclipse […]

Intel is blurring the lines of its various semiconductor products as the company shifts from a hardware manufacturer to a systems company. The process, which Intel calls “platformization,” is one of several themes at this week’s Intel Developers Forum. The goal, according to Intel Vice President Frank Spindler, is to have two or three product […]

Companies that run PeopleSoft software are doing some serious soul-searching these days, according to a report due this week from Yankee Group. The IT analyst group found 46 percent of the 193 PeopleSoft customers (including JD Edwards users) surveyed are leaning toward swapping out their current software applications, with 31 percent remaining undecided. The report […]

Apple Computer said it will let developers get as close as they want to its next-generation Mac OS X, code-named Tiger, as part of its annual summer forum. The Macintosh-maker said it is scheduling more hands-on and expert-led coding sessions at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June so that members of its Apple […]

AMD is turning up the heat on rival Intel with a new hardware interface it claims will simplify server upgrades. The company released its new Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA) for motherboards running its 64-bit Opteron and Athlon processors today. Originally outlined in a December 2004 announcement, the specification defines a common hardware interface between […]

PeopleSoft may be gone in body, but companies who still run its software are finding online support groups a godsend. Hundreds of Web sites, bulletin boards and mail lists have continued to survive and thrive even though it’s been more than a month since Oracle finalized its acquisition of PeopleSoft. To date, there are 179 […]

Sun Microsystems is preparing a new feature for Solaris 10 it claims could spell the end of viruses, worms and illegal downloads. The software, called Solaris Policy Manager, is the last of three major components being rolled out as part of the operating system’s Secure Execution features set. Prepared literally in the last moments of […]

IBM is reportedly offering some serious concessions to convince U.S. regulators that selling its PC division to the Chinese won’t compromise national security. According to the terms of the proposed $1.25 billion deal, IBM becomes a reseller for Lenovo’s desktop and laptop PCs clients. But Lenovo would gain access to IBM’s contracts, including its vendor […]

AMD has challenged Intel to a dual … as in dual-core processor. The No. 2 chipmaker drew first blood earlier this week at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif., facilities with a demonstration of a new dual-core AMD Athlon 64 processor, manufactured on 90-nanometer technology. The presentation follows last week’s display of AMD’s multi-core Opteron server and […]

Intel is returning to the digital display world with an agreement to purchase Oplus Technologies. Oplus, out of Yokneam, Israel, is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that makes chips and related software for flat-panel plasma and LCD-TVs, projection systems, LCD multi-function monitors and emerging digital display applications. The company, which has approximately 100 employees, […]