Michael Singer

Oracle Tuesday began preparing for the next version of its “Procurement” platform by initiating a Supplier Advisory Board (SAB). The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant said the goal of the Board is to help it develop applications that improve supplier relationship management (SRM) processes and include both the buyer and supplier’s perspectives. Oracle Procurement is […]

Saving face from last week’s announced postponement of some of its chips, Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday began shipping its Athlon MP processor 2600+. Currently its fastest processor, the new Athlon 2600+ is based on x86 architecture and was designed mostly for multiprocessing servers and workstations. The chip runs at 2.133 GHz, which is incrementally faster […]

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest non-profit health maintenance organization, Tuesday said it is embarking on a three-year plan to put 8.5 million of its members’ patient records online. The Oakland, Calif.-based HMO said it will spend upwards of $1.8 billion on its revised Automated Medical Records (AMR) platform to make what it claims is the […]

Texas Instruments (TI) Monday expanded its family of mobile processors, with the release of five new OMAP chipsets for smartphones and PDAs. Each of the processors features on-chip security as well as better support for graphics, multimedia content, and Java. The Dallas-based company claims the new chips also reduce standby current in mobile devices 10 […]

Hewlett-Packard Monday said it has signed a five-year manufacturing and supply agreement with Solectron Corp. , valued at $1.4 billion. Under the agreement, Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron will produce printed circuit boards and memory modules for HP’s mid- and high-end enterprise servers, as well as other products. Representatives with the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer […]

Motorola Monday said it has purchased NetPlane Systems from Conexant Systems for an undisclosed amount of cash. NetPlane develops networking protocol software for the control plane (specialized hardware and software, embedded in networking equipment). The Westborough, Mass.-based firm is a business of Mindspeed Technologies, the Internet infrastructure business of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Conexant. With the […]

The semiconductor recovery is underway and is expected to build in 2003, according to new numbers issued Monday by an industry trade group. The report from the San Jose, Calif.-based Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) suggests that the growth will come primarily out of the Asia/Pacific area and will be mostly spent on hardware such as […]

Nokia Friday said it will stand behind a new wireless standard started by Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics . The Finland-based cell phone maker called the Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces (OMAPI) is “a significant and positive step in building open mobile application processor interfaces, as well as boosting growth in the mobile industry.” Launched back […]

Software developer DivXNetworks released a new codec this week designed specifically for consumer electronic devices. As the first full update to their codec tool kit in eight months, the San Diego-based firm said its DivX 5.03 suite of video compression technologies lets developers choose from one of four official DivX Certified consumer electronics profiles when […]

Electronics equipment maker Agilent Friday said it will acquire bits and pieces of Pixel Devices International Inc. (PDI). The Sunnyvale-based company is best known for developing complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) for high-speed, low-noise image sensors and cameras for use in industrial and biomedical systems. PDI says its “active reset” technology can reduce noise by […]

Advanced Micro Devices Friday said it would postpone debuting some of its 64-bit processors until later this year. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker is planning to unveil its next-generation, 64-bit AMD Opteron processor (code named Sledgehammer) for servers and workstations on April 22 in New York City running at speeds of 1.4GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz. […]

Looking to spark more interest in its versions of massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), Sega.com Thursday launched its new Online Developer Program. The San Francisco-based online arm of Japanese game publisher Sega Corp. said it is actively looking for quality content to do battle with rivals Electronic Arts , Nintendo and Sony and is even […]