Michael Singer

Looking to cover all of its bases, SuSE Linux Wednesday began shipping its newest Enterprise Server platform specifically tuned for running on Intel’s Itanium processor family. Pronounced “soos-ah”, the Nuremberg, Germany-based company with U.S. offices in Oakland, Calif. said its SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 is available for USD$749 per server at the end of […]

The standards body formed to promote harmony in the Web services sector Wednesday added Sun Microsystems and webMethods to its core board of directors. San Francisco-based Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said representatives from the two companies have been elected to join its nine founding members: Oracle , IBM , Microsoft , BEA , Fujitsu, […]

Wireless ISP Cometa Networks Tuesday named Gary Weis as its president, CEO and director, replacing co-founder and interim CEO Larry Brilliant. The San Francisco-based company is a partnership between IBM , AT&T , Intel and global investment concerns Apax Partners and 3i. Weis is no stranger to the companies or major ISP launches. He recently […]

Two Silicon Valley-based tech firms Tuesday said they will join forces on the next version of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Milpitas, Calif.-based LSI Logic’s Storage Standard Products division and San Jose, Calif.-based division of the Japanese owned Hitachi’s Global Storage Technologies said they will coordinate their respective product development efforts including sharing design implementations, performance […]

Overclockers beware! Intel is defending its property. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant now has a patented anti-overclocking technology designed to automatically shut down a system before an overworked processor burns it up. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the No. 1 chipmaker patent #6,535,988 on March 18 for use in future Intel […]

Longtime Linux server and software maker Penguin Computing Tuesday unveiled its largest Intel Xeon-based storage product. Under its Relion brand, the San Francisco-based company’s new Relion 430 is a 4U server with an IDE disk subsystem. The 7″ rack mount has 16 accessible, cold-swap hard drives that can be populated with 200GB IDE hard drives, […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — You are traveling through a dimly lit maze of brick walls with various posters looming back at you. Suddenly, you turn to view one and with a click of a mouse, a movie starts playing. It’s not the latest video game – it’s Hewlett-Packard’s future vision of shopping online. The Palo […]

South Korean-based Samsung Monday said its semiconductor division has begun mass production of the industry’s first 1GigaByte DDR2 Dual in-Line Memory Module (DIMM) . The company said its new memory chips are JEDEC standard compliant and feature a 4-bit pre-fetch, which is twice the external bandwidth of regular DDR for the same internal frequency. The […]

Semiconductor maker Silicon Image Monday said it has inked a deal to acquire TransWarp Networks, a privately held company focused on switching, CPU and memory products. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company designs and sells a variety of integrated circuits, including digital video controllers, receivers, transmitters, and processors that are built into computers, set-top boxes, and DVD […]

With PC sales dragging along, two Silicon Valley-based semiconductor giants are hedging their bets with the introduction of advanced processors for handset devices and PDAs. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel and National Semiconductor Monday debuted new low-power chips as additions to their processing portfolios. Both companies are using the latest technologies to cram as many transistors […]

Apple Computer announced Friday that is rescheduling its 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to a new date and location in order to prepare for the next version of its Macintosh operating system, code named “Panther.” Originally scheduled for May 19-23 in San Jose, the conference will now be held June 23-27 at San Francisco’s Moscone […]

A new survey out this week suggests that flood of IT spending predicted for the first quarter of this year has slowed to a mere trickle. Analysts with Deutsche Bank Securities say computer salespeople polled best described the last three months as a period of “uncertainty and frustration” when it comes to orders for servers, […]