Michael Singer

Chipmaker Intel Thursday said it said it likes the way its Itanium 2 processors are shaping up so much that it will continue to produce the server/workstation chips well into next year. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said an enhanced Itanium 2 processor has just been added to its 2004 roadmap. Codenamed “Madison,” Intel said […]

Research In Motion (RIM) Wednesday said it has inked a deal to sell its BlackBerry products for the first time in Spain. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company said its partnership with Telefonica Moviles Espana (TME) will allow RIM’s popular business mobile gadgets to be distributed under the Oficin@ MoviStar umbrella. The devices are expected to be […]

Chipmaker Transmeta Wednesday said its TM5800 Crusoe is the brain behind a new lightweight notebook being marketed to women in China. The Santa Clara-based company partnered with China’s second largest notebook supplier, Tsinghua Unisplendour Group on the “Lilly” notebook. Weighing just 3.5 lbs, the compact laptop was launched Wednesday in Beijing and will be marketed […]

Even though Intel has been a longstanding supporter of the Linux operating system, the company has not had an official VTune offering for Linux developers. That is until now. After a slew of customer requests, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant Wednesday released Intel VTune Performance Analyzer 1.0 for Linux to help analyze and […]

Handheld computer maker Palm Monday began preparing for ‘Graffiti 2’, its next generation handwriting technology. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has signed a licensing agreement for ‘Jot’ handwriting recognition technology, a software made by Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC) , to completely replace Graffiti in all of its future systems. As […]

Nextel Communications Monday said it has finished Phase One of its nationwide rollout of its Direct Connect service. The Reston, Va.-based wireless company said its walkie-talkie feature, which is popular with businesses, should be available coast-to-coast by the third quarter of this year. The rollout will let Nextel subscribers have the equivalent of a walkie-talkie […]

Looking to keep its edge in the Web services jungle, Sun Microsystems Monday released version 6.0 of its Sun ONE Identity Server software. The platform is one of several that will allow end-users to sign on once and have their passwords and other personal information accessible over several sites. The upgrade from Sun ONE Identity […]

PC card and chipset maker Sigma Designs this week entered the digital TV marketplace with the industry’s first high-definition television (HDTV) decoder chips to support MPEG-4 . The Milpitas, Calif.-based company known for its REALmagic line of PC cards said its EM8605 and EM8610 models support digital TV, DVD, video-on-demand (VOD) and personal video recording […]

Intel CEO Craig Barrett Thursday said his company’s top priority for 2003 is wireless for the masses. “Unwiring the consumer is the next logical advance in consumer electronics,” Barrett said during his keynote at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show. Since introducing its Extended PC concept two years ago at CES, Intel has nudged its […]

Fed up with the Silicon Valley scene, seven guys who used to work at IBM in the Microelectronics’ Wireless Division have headed to the hills to start their own RF design company, Tahoe RF Semiconductor, Inc. Located in the Sierra Foothills near Lake Tahoe in Northern California, the company specializes in front-end circuit design and […]

All those rumors that suggested a new handheld device that would let you carry movies around was coming out this week… were true. But instead of the idea coming from Apple Computer in the form of a video version of its iPod, it was Microsoft that has come up with idea of the personal media […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Computer this week targeted UNIX users (in addition to Microsoft Windows users) in its drive to “switch” non-Mac users to its OS X platform. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker Tuesday released the public beta of X11 for Mac OS X 10.2 or “Jaguar”. The common windowing environment and open source XFree86 […]