Michael Singer

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Three wireless firms Monday formed a joint venture they say will really speed up the adoption of 2.5G and 3G services in mobile phones and other devices. Under the new company name of “T3G”, Datang Mobile Communications, Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung Electronics say they will design and license core Time Division – Synchronous Code […]

Calling it a “fortress on a circuit board,” Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday introduced a 64-Mb page-mode Flash memory device with new security features designed to thwart signal thieves. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker’s new Am29PDL640G comes with 64-bit password protection for use in wireless applications such as mobile phones and other applications including television […]

Looking to increase the capacity of servers, workstations and supercomputers, Samsung Electronics Monday unveiled its first 4GByte Double Data Rate (DDR) Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM). The Korean-based manufacturer, which developed one of the first fully working 1Gb DDR synchronous DRAM modules in early December 2002 said it plans on mass producing the faster 4GByte […]

Sun Microsystems Friday issued its latest scheduled upgrade to its Solaris server operating environment. Available now as a download, Sun says version 9 12/02 (named so for its release date) is significant because includes built-in support for Sun ONE Application Server 7, which the company says allows for free development and deployment without having to […]

For the third time in less than a year, Intel has sold off one of its smaller divisions to a privately owned company. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant this week said it’s letting go of Trillium Digital Systems, which it purchased in August 2000 for $300 million, to Continuous Computing (CCPU) for an […]

Once at the forefront of the convergence between the Internet and recordable TV and digital music players, SONICblue Friday said its financial situation is so dire that it is considering selling the company. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has hired financial advisor, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin to help it evaluate its options […]

Low-power chipmaker Transmeta is wading into some pretty competitive seas with its TM8000 – a new processor codenamed “Astro”. The Santa Clara-based company has slowly been showing off its next-generation chip saying that the 1GHz, 0.13-micron process processor is being designed primarily for use in laptops with 12- and 14-inch displays. Transmeta says Astro – […]

After three years and many revisions, the fifth incarnation of FreeBSD will be available this weekend. Early Friday morning, volunteers at FreeBSD.org began distributing the popular and free version of the UNIX operating system to its main FTP sites and corresponding mirror sites for download. Patterned after the BSDI (Berkeley Software Design Inc.) operating system, […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sun Microsystems Wednesday said it wants to make Java simpler and more straightforward. Company CTO John Fowler said his team plans to “reduce the amount of fragmentation” going on in the Java community by doing more outreach and education for developers and vendors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also said it […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday tried to put a positive spin on what seems to be one of its worst years ever. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based networking giant said it is taking more than $2 billion in charges, mostly due to investment losses. The company reported $2.915 billion in revenues compared with $3.108 billion for its second […]

California’s highest court will finally hear the high-profile case of who owns the rights to the Sex.com domain. The Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and decide whether a domain name is property that can be converted as well as guidance to assess damages estimated […]