Michael Singer

A Texas jury Thursday ruled in favor of Microtune in one of several patent infringement complaints between itself and chipmaker Broadcom . At the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, the jury found Microtune’s patent (No. 5,737,035) was valid and that Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom is infringing. The jury characterized […]

Contract electronics manufacturer Solectron Thursday said it will eliminate some 12,000 of its employees in Europe and North America as part of a cost cutting effort. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company, however, did not disclose its time table. The firm, which caters to high-tech giants including Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Apple, Ericsson, and IBM, said its restructuring […]

Palm Thursday said it would have to wait a little longer to officially separate its PalmSource subsidiary from the parent company. During its third quarter earnings report, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based handheld computer maker said even with the blessing of the IRS and investors, market conditions were not ripe enough to justify the move. Instead […]

Hitachi Wednesday said it has inked a deal to equip its upcoming Linux-based wireless Tablet-PC with handwriting recognition software from Codehost. The computer maker said its Santa Clara, Calif.-based Internet Platform Business Unit will be working with the Culver City, Calif.-based Linux software developer on the open source version of its Hitachi VisionPlate brand. In […]

Time is running out for companies that have still not certified their platforms for J2EE v1.4, Sun Microsystems said Wednesday. While the next incarnation of the enterprise-based operating environment is not due for release until later this summer, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm is cracking down on what it calls “renegade” vendors trying to pass […]

Officials with CERT Coordination Center Wednesday issued a serious warning against security holes disable servers running Sun XDR library routines from remote locations. Sun’s Network Services library, BSD-derived libraries with XDR/RPC routines or GNU C library with sunrpc were identified as high-risk targets. According to the dispatch, an integer overflow found in the “xdrmem_getbytes” function […]

Seeing an opportunity to take a swipe at the competition, network equipment makers 3Com and China’s Huawei Technologies Wednesday said they have formed a joint venture in Hong Kong. With principal operations in Hangzhou, China, the name of the joint venture will be 3Com-Huawei in English and Huawei-3Com in Chinese. Under the terms of the […]

Apple Computer Wednesday said it has elected former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore Jr. to its board of directors. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker has been operating without a full board since Oracle CEO Larry Ellison departed last September for personal reasons. Ellison had been on Apple’s board for five years. Gore, […]

When Motorola launches its A760 handset later this year, it won’t be running the company’s usual Symbian operating system. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based wireless giant Wednesday confirmed that instead it would be using Sunnyvale, Calif.-based MontaVista Software’s consumer version of Linux to power its new PDA-phone. As previously reported, the new A760 is the first handset […]

Sometimes it takes looking at other problems in the world to come up with a solution for your own. Such is the case with Xerox . The Rochester, N.Y.-based printing company Wednesday said it has come up with a new compression technology as way to improve printer performance by simply studying issues in the digital […]

Ever since the comic book hero Dick Tracy first strapped on his amazing wrist radio six decades ago, science fiction fans have eagerly anticipated the day when such a gadget might become reality. Fossil Inc. Tuesday took one step closer to the future by agreeing to license handwriting recognition technology from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Communication […]

Two Silicon Valley-based companies fighting over the rights to products based on wireless standard 802.11 Tuesday have put aside their differences. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Proxim and Milpitas, Calif.-based Intersil said they have resolved all pending patent-related litigation between the two companies that pertain to their involvement in wireless local area networking (WLAN) . Both company’s products […]