Michael Singer

Critics say the time is ripe for HP to split up its businesses now that CEO Carly Fiorina is leaving the company. For months, analysts cited Fiorina’s “New HP” failure to deliver on its promises to compete with Dell’s leading sales position and IBM’s worldwide reach, as a reason to divide the company up into […]

Intel is summing up its focus for 2005 in a single phrase: 64-bit. The chipmaker said its flagship Pentium 4 will ship with 64-bit capabilities for the first time later this month. The company said it is also close to shipping its Xeon multiprocessor, code-named Potomac, with 8MB L3 cache and its Twin Castle chipset. […]

A Microsoft manager’s call to freely show part of the code to the next-generation .NET software is being met with jeers and cheers. In his blog last week, Shawn Burke, a development manager on Microsoft’s Windows Forms team, suggested that Microsoft release parts of the Windows Forms code and product database to help developers debug […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft unveiled a new set of developer tools and partnerships today it hopes will make its .NET framework work better with the outside world. The announcements this week at the VSLive! 2005 developer show here highlight Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates’ pledge of interoperability with other platforms like J2EE […]

Just one week after its “2005: The Year for Mobility” launch, HP announced today it is expanding its overseas mobile services business with a new contract with South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT). The announcement follows similar partnerships HP has with the Dutch-owned Vodafone Netherlands and Spain’s TeliaSonera in the areas of multimedia messaging and service […]

Macromedia released a new version of its ColdFusion Web application today as it continues to spread its wings beyond the PC. ColdFusion MX 7 (previously code-named Blackstone) has been re-architected with Java J2EE 1.4 and introduces interactions with mobile phones using short message service (SMS) text messaging as well as standard Web-based instant messaging clients. […]

UPDATED: IBM and some of its partners introduced a new semiconductor chip today that is expected to disrupt some traditional computing architectures. In concert with design partners Toshiba, Sony Computer and its parent company Sony , IBM detailed its jointly developed microprocessor — code-named Cell — at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San […]

UPDATED: TiVo released new tools this week it said will let developers help the DVR provider think outside of the set top box. The company, whose name is becoming a verb in some pop-culture circles, posted an early-access software development kit (SDK) at the SourcForge.net Web site. TiVo said its Java-based SDK is subject to […]

Microsoft is advancing its 64-bit agenda with the addition of some new AMD Opteron computers. AMD said the No. 1 software vendor will use its chips in a batch of enterprise-class HP ProLiant DL145 and DL585 servers that Microsoft recently purchased for its Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

Sun Microsystems is putting the business of Wall Street in its new enterprise grid. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced Thursday that it plans to launch a new technology exchange service with Archipelago Holdings that will allow Sun Grid customers to buy and sell their server compute cycles. Similar to a trading floor, customers will […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — HP launched an aggressive campaign to supplant Dell as the No. 1 enterprise notebook maker. In the first in a series of mobility-focused announcements scheduled for this year, the company said it will throw every notebook, advanced PDA, Tablet PC and smartphone it can at the market to boost its sales […]

Researchers at HP have come up with a new signal technology they claim could replace transistors in computers one day. In a paper published in Tuesday’s Journal of Applied Physics, three members of HP Labs’ Quantum Science Research (QSR) group demonstrated what they call a “crossbar latch.” A latch consists of a single wire acting […]