Michael Singer

A federal court of appeals Friday denied a request by German-based semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies to revive its patent infringement case against rival Rambus . Judges with the U.S. appellate court in Virginia stood by its January 29 ruling, which cleared Los Altos, Calif.-based Rambus of fraud while it was working with the JDEEC Solid […]

Seeing a need for more sophisticated supercomputers, Sun Microsystems Friday shifted its product structure and created a new High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) business unit. Led by vice president Shahin Khan, the group pulls together Sun’s HPTC products — such as its Sun Fire line — as well as programs and investments across all […]

A cross-industry consortium released a new standards platform this week in an attempt to better connect devices multiple environments. San Ramon, Calif.-based Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Wednesday unveiled its Service Platform Release 3 (R3) for download. The software specification allows managed services to be delivered to devices in homes, cars and businesses. The non-profit […]

Network Associates (NAI) Friday said it has inked a deal to purchase its second start-up security software company in a week. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company which owns the McAfee brand said it will spend $120 million for Entercept Security Technologies. The San Jose, Calif.-based firm (formerly known as ClickNet) specializes in host-based intrusion prevention […]

Web conferencing will be taking on a new significance later this spring when Microsoft completes its announced acquisition of Mountain View, Calif.-based PlaceWare. Microsoft has said its ultimate plan is to make the audio/visual application as commonplace as e-mail or instant messaging is today. Originally Microsoft began its Web conferencing path with NetMeeting, which developed […]

Mobile business software maker @Road Thursday said it has secured a patent for its way of keeping customers connected. Titled “Method for distributing location-relevant information using a network,” Patent number 6,529,159 describes a method for communicating valuable business information to mobile workers based on their position in the field at a given time. The invention […]

The minds behind the Mozilla Web browser this week announced a major shift in strategy, one that focuses more on quality than quantity. In a memo to the Mountain View, Calif.-based consortium, longtime project leaders Brendan Eich, David Hyatt outlined a new roadmap suggesting that Mozilla adopt a new application architecture based on the Gecko […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As a wireless standard, 802.11 (also known as Wi-Fi ) is becoming quite a phenomenon and new findings being discussed here Thursday show there is no signs of letting up. “Not since the earliest days of the Internet have we seen a technology capable of creating such positive disruption and change […]

Apple Computer Wednesday beefed up its network software lineup with an incremental upgrade to its Apple Remote Desktop platform. The software lets network administrators distribute and install software, copy files, gather asset management information and remotely control system settings over the network. The new administration software plays right into the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker’s recent […]

Researchers at AMD Wednesday said they have come up with a new transistor that is 30 percent faster than the most current PMOS (P-channel metal-oxide semiconductor) transistor on the market. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said its R&D labs created the high-performance transistor to operate with less current leakage and lower voltage requirements. AMD said […]

Hewlett-Packard shareholders Wednesday shot down a handful of plans that would have given its board more power. By overwhelming majorities, voting investors of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker disapproved of proposals to extend corporate indexed and expensing options and demanded more say in any provision that combats hostile takeovers — also known […]

Semiconductor maker Transmeta Wednesday said it will supply its Crusoe processors for a new telephone reception device made for the German market. The partnership with VoiceCom AG will feature an 800 MHz TM5800 processor in a speech- controlled telephone dialing system designed for small businesses. The product, known as VoiceButler, simultaneously manages up to 20 […]