Michael Singer

Sun Microsystems says it is working hard to shake its high-price reputation with its upcoming release of its StorEdge 3300 Series products. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based networking giant is expected to take the wraps off of the data storage products on October 15 at its Net@Work 2002 Partner Forum show in Florida. “Storage is a […]

Hewlett-Packard Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against storage device maker EMC . The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, target seven separate features in EMC’s Symmetrix, Clariion and TimeFinder products. The suit is in retaliation for EMC’s patent lawsuits against HP’s new friend and technology provider, Hitachi , […]

Yahoo! Monday pumped new blood into its health channel with a new look, new services and a new marketing campaign that focuses on pharmaceutical companies. Not since the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based media company launched the Yahoo! Health portal during the beginning of the dot-com frenzy has there been such an overhaul of features and partnerships. New […]

The Napster saga continued Friday with a chain of events worthy of the “Who Shot J.R.?” mystery status. Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Peter J. Walsh set the stage by ruling to keep the Redwood City-based Internet file-swapping service in Chapter 11 (reorganization) status as opposed to a Chapter 7 status, which would have liquidated the company […]

True to its word, Apple Computer Wednesday began “open sourcing” its code for its new Rendezvous zero configuration IP networking technology. Rendezvous is deeply embedded in Jaguar, Apple’s latest operating system release and its AOL-enhanced iChat application. The technology is based on open Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard Protocols such as IP, ARP and […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday said it is hoping to get developers to think outside the box (or handset) when it comes to Java . The Palo Alto, Calif.-based networking giant, in Yokohama, Japan for its JavaOne conference said it hopes to expand its cross platform computer language into new realms such as PDAs, automobile telematics and […]

Hewlett-Packard Monday said it is closely teaming up with Microsoft on its .NET initiative. As part of an extension of a previous announcement, the two companies are investing a combined sum of $50 million to combine HP’s IT infrastructure technology and services with Microsoft .NET software. The initiative is designed to respond to customer demand […]

Sales of Hewlett-Packard blade servers have been so aggressive that company execs Monday claimed early victory in the subset of the server arena. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said it reached a milestone in its enterprise blade server product line by becoming the first vendor to surpass 1,800 blades sales per month. […]

Developers in the handheld sector have had an interesting summer to say the least. When Palm’s software division PalmSource shipped the gold master of its latest operating system (Palm OS 5) to licensees on June 15, many were faced with a conundrum: how to deal with a new ARM microprocessor architecture instead of the DragonBall […]

SAN FRANCISCO — One day after the government released its proposed guidelines for cyber security, Sun Microsystems called on industry leaders to use its platforms and initiatives to better safeguard the Internet. The plan is heavily based on Sun’s new N1 distributed computing architecture for enterprise customers. Company Chief Security Officer, Dr. Whitfield Diffie said […]

Internet standards consortium RosettaNet Tuesday said it has released a new test developed to test a company’s compliance to its e-business dialogue, Partner Interface Process (PIP). A PIP is an XML specification designed to align a specific business process between supply chain partners. RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall IT supply-chain […]

The fate of Napster is still floating in limbo as potential buyers are circling the dot-com dead pool waters for one of the most notorious sites in Internet history. The Napster trademark, napster.com domain and other related assets from the Redwood City-based Internet file-swapping service are up for a second time after a Delaware bankruptcy […]