Michael Singer

Chip making giant Intel Thursday said it has opened a new open collaborative research lab at the University Of Cambridge, in England. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said the lab is an open research collaboration designed to “accelerate the convergence of computing and communications.” Intel said the projects will focus on developing networking, […]

Faced with sluggish PC sales and increasing competition, computer maker Gateway Wednesday gave a thumbnail sketch of a restructuring plan to stay in the hunt. CFO Rod Sherwood said the Poway, Calif.-based company has had enough of losing money. In eight out of its last nine quarters, Gateway has posted losses in a world increasingly […]

Modem manufacturing company PCTEL, Inc. Thursday said it has filed a patent infringement case against rival 3Com . The Chicago-based company claims 3Com breaches one of its fundamental modem patents relating to V.34 (lower speed) and V.90 (56 KBPS) modems. The lawsuit filed in California’s Northern District in San Jose calls for an injunction and […]

Two of the largest graphics chipmakers squared off in Silicon Valley this week, each toting its new processors as the next best thing to reality gaming. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2003 in San Jose, Calif., rivals NVIDIA and ATI Technologies both debuted PC graphics chips (GPU) for the mainstream market. Santa Clara-based NVIDIA […]

Hoping to increase its market share overseas, mobile device maker Research In Motion (RIM) Wednesday announced a new European deal with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile division. Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, which is best known for its BlackBerry devices said the partnership will target professional consumers and smaller firms in Germany, the UK and Austria, with other T-Mobile […]

Microsoft Wednesday released a preview version of its DirectX multimedia application development tool just in time for a gaming conference this week in Silicon Valley. This preview release only contains updated D3DX associated files (headers, libs, and D3DX debug dll). The next Beta release is expected to include the Full DirectX 9.0 SDK Update files. […]

Sony chairman and CEO, Nobuyuki Idei said he would be more than happy to acquire Palm’s software division, according to Web site AlwaysOn. But that kind of outright purchase is unlikely, according to PalmSource CEO David Nagel. Nagel dismissed the suggestion as old news and told internetnews.com the company has heard similar rumors in the […]

Hoping to get all of their developers in a row, Oracle and Sprint Tuesday struck a deal to integrate their individual Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) environments. The goal is to make it easier and faster for Java developers to build mobile applications for the enterprise that can be later used on PCS Vision devices. […]

Network equipment maker 3Com Tuesday said it has sold off parts of its CommWorks business for $100 million in cash to telecommunications vendor UTStarcom . The sale is expected to close within 60 to 120 days. The boards of directors of Alameda, Calif.-based UTStarcom and Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com have approved the acquisition, subject to […]

Looking to show peer-to-peer technology is not just for the Napsters and KaZaAs of the world, Sun Microsystems Tuesday reaffirmed its backing of the JXTA initiative. The brainchild of Sun co-founder Bill Joy, JXTA is an open, generalized peer-to-peer platform that lets cell phones, two-way pagers, electronic sensors, PDAs, desktop computers and servers communicate and […]

Less than a week after being slapped with an “anti-trust” lawsuit, Broadcom responded to a higher authority. The Irvine, Calif.-based semiconductor maker Monday filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) accusing rival Microtune of unfair trade practices by importing tuners, power amplifiers and Bluetooth products that infringe two Broadcom patents. If the Commission ultimately […]

Agere Systems Monday said it is officially entering the wireless power amplifier market by offering 21 new transistors for base stations . The Allentown, Pa.-based integrated circuit maker sells other chips for base stations but has never sold power transistors used to manage cell phone calls. With its new offerings, Agere said it is targeting […]