Michael Singer

Making good on its promise to spend $150 million on building up smaller Wi-Fi technology companies, Intel Wednesday said it was investing in two startups. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker said it’s Intel Communications Fund division is plunking down an unspecified amount of cash to help Salt Lake City-based STSN and Bellevue, Wash.-based Telesym develop […]

Nextel Communications Tuesday inched closer to making its Direct Connect function a nationwide experience. The wireless giant said it is working with Motorola on two technical projects – nearly doubling the voice capacity of Nextel’s interconnect network, and expanding the Direct Connect digital walkie-talkie feature to make it possible to conduct two-way radio calls nationwide. […]

Texas-based RLX Technologies Monday released a new blade server line that features a 1GHz Crusoe chip from Transmeta . Santa Clara, Calif.-based Transmeta said its TM5800 processor, which debuted in July 2002, will be used in RLX’s ServerBlade 1000t. The slim server starts at $1,329.00, including 128 MB of integrated DDR RAM and 512 MB […]

Oracle may be waiting a little longer for the return of massive enterprise software spending especially for its Application Server business, so say analysts looking at the software giant’s earnings report due tomorrow. A consensus of analysts surveyed Tuesday by research firm Thomson First Call say Oracle should meet, or slightly beat its own cautious […]

IBM and Xilinx Monday announced what they say is a major step toward production of the world’s first 90-nanometer (nm) chip. To put things in perspective, 90nm is less than 1/1,000th the width of a human hair. Based on their partnership announced earlier this year, IBM will use copper-based 90nm semiconductor manufacturing to tap out […]

The semiconductor unit of Philips Electronics Friday said it will again supply chips for disposable cell phone maker Hop-On . The new contract center’s on Irvine, Calif.-based Hop-On’s CDMA disposable cell phones, which are based on Philips’ ASIC chip technology. The semiconductor maker also supplies components for Hop-On’s GSM and TDMA protocol models. The Federal […]

The quest for one Israeli company to build better ‘Ethernet In The First Mile’ product got a boost Friday as chip making giant Intel said it has come on board as a new investor. Financial details of the funding were not disclosed. Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Passave is a fabless system-on-chip vendor, developing core technology for broadband […]

Mobile devices are great for working on the go, but most handheld battery-powered equipment run out of juice in a few hours. So instead of working on extending the battery’s life, networking equipment maker Intersil Thursday said it is focusing on making its transceivers more energy efficient. The Irvine, Calif.-based company said it is expanding […]

Once a high-flying software company, General Magic Thursday said it has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division. In September 2002, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company discontinued its operations and began the process of liquidating its business. As a debtor in […]

Wireless giant QUALCOMM Thursday filed suit against Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Maxim Integrated Products in federal court in San Diego for what it claims is patent infringement. San Diego-based QUALCOMM said the infringed patents cover inventions relating to the transmission, reception and processing of radio signals by wireless telephones. The company is seeking an injunction against the […]

Two mobile chipmakers Thursday proposed a new wireless standard to improve how multimedia looks and runs on 2.5G and 3G mobile phones, PDAs and other mobile devices. Executives with Dallas-based Texas Instruments and Geneva, Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics jointly introduced Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces (OMAPI) as its proposition for a new wireless standard. The platform is […]

Looking to build each other’s IT service departments, computer giants Hewlett-Packard and NEC Thursday said they will work together on outsourcing projects for joint business customers. The alliance will initially target enterprise customers based in China, Japan and the United States with plans to expand to other regions, including Southeast Asia and Europe. The “Memorandum […]