Michael Singer

eBay Wednesday told it like it is – even in a down economy, people want to buy and trade stuff online. At its annual financial analyst conference in San Jose, the online auction giant reaffirmed its financial predictions for the rest of this year and said its revenue would be coming from both predictable and […]

A battle over mobile phone standards is emerging in Central and South America, one that pits CDMA2000 against GSM . The two wireless platforms have historically been broken down along geographic lines. Europe remains a GSM stronghold, while the United States is firmly rooted in CDMA and TDMA technology. Asia has gotten a blitz of […]

The lizard-heads over at Mozilla Tuesday released their latest upgrade to the Phoenix Web browser. Version 0.4 (code named Oceano) is a leaner and meaner redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. XUL is an XML-based UI […]

One of the inherent successes of the Internet is that spreading servers around the globe prevents a total blackout. Sun Microsystems Tuesday went one step further by introducing a strategy it said turns multiple data centers into one unified data center. The idea is to continue conducting business – “no matter what.” The Palo Alto, […]

Ever wish you could boot servers directly from your IP network instead of having to call someone to do it manually? Cisco Systems Tuesday answered that call with the release of “Network Boot” – a new feature for its Cisco SN 5400 Storage Router portfolio it says continues the recent trend using iSCSI networking in […]

In a little ribbon cutting ceremony, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Tuesday opened the doors to its new AMD Developer Center and inched closer to the release of its Hammer technology. Located at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, the facility is designed to help commercial software and hardware developers think of new ways to use […]

Two new handhelds debuting Monday from Palm target what the company calls “Power Users” and are expected to compete with just about everybody else making a digital organizer or smartphone. Milpitas, Calif.-based company’s two new high-end models, the Tungsten ‘T’ and the Tungsten ‘W’ are part of Palm’s revised marketing shift from numeric identities like […]

Palm is gearing up for what may be a busy week for the handheld computer maker. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company Friday said it will be unveiling two new handhelds under its new sub-brand, Tungsten. The product announcements and launch event will be broadcast live on the Web. Several Palm fan sites have posted specific […]

A new handheld device from Microsoft is expected to give some relief to people with severe vision problems that want to participate in the digital revolution. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Thursday introduced the PAC Mate, a mainstream PDA product the company developed with the help of Freedom Scientific, based in Washington D.C. The company […]

To paraphrase astronomer Carl Sagan, there are billions and billions of stars in the galaxy. But scientists hoping to find out how they got there in the first place are leaning on IBM for help. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant Thursday said it has sold five of its eServer p690 systems to the University of […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday said it will join the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) after all, as a contributing member. Founded earlier this year, WS-I is an open industry effort chartered to promote harmony in the Web services sector so that customer information can freely move across platforms, applications and programming languages. The decision by the […]

In the quest to make its chips more appealing to device makers, AMD Wednesday said it has inked a deal with RSA Security to encrypt some of its modes. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said RSA has agreed to help protect current AMD Athlon processors and upcoming AMD 32-bit and 64-bit processors based on Hammer […]