Michael Singer

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel Monday said the road to the future starts with silicon. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which has invested millions in research and development in such alternative computing technologies like nanotubes, says that green stuff that drives modern technology, “is the convergence engine that powers a new era of computing.” “We […]

Morpheus is a popular file-sharing software based on the decentralized Gnutella peer-to-peer (P2P) networking protocol, but is it legal? Lawyers at StreamCast Networks, developers of the popular file sharing software, seem to think so. The Franklin, Tennessee-based company Monday filed briefs in a Los Angeles federal court asking a judge to rule that distribution of […]

The Liberty Alliance Project lost the top member of its executive team Friday. The coalition of companies focused on an open-system single sign-on for the Web services sector, said Eric Dean is stepping down as president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. Dean, CIO of United Airlines , said his duties at the airline were […]

How many lives does Napster have? When a Delaware Bankruptcy court denied Bertelsmann AG its bid to buy Napster, it seemed like game over for the most notorious music file swapping service in the history of the Internet. That’s it. Game over. Thanks for playing. The Napster site even sported a crudely rendered picture of […]

One of the oldest search properties on the Internet is turning to one of the newest for a second shot at fame. MetaCrawler re-launched Wednesday with the help of Mountain View, Calif.-based search upstart Google. Bellevue, Wash.-based InfoSpace, Inc. , which owns MetaCrawler as well as Excite, Dogpile and WebCrawler announced the deal with Google […]

Refocusing its efforts on its chip making business, Intel Wednesday said it is selling some of its software assets. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has inked a deal with investment firms Vector Capital, of San Francisco, and vSpring Capital, of Salt Lake City to spin off Intel’s LANDesk software product line as an […]

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Friday gave credence to a landmark $65 million lawsuit over the sex.com domain. In a unanimous ruling, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said appeals by defendant, Stephen Michael Cohen were an “egregious abuse of the litigation process.” The court also said that […]

Once it was the place to go on the Web to share music files, a proverbial cult icon with millions of users, but now Napster has run out of options and is now buried forever. A Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday has denied the bankrupt Redwood City-based Internet song-swapping service its $92 million proposed sale to […]

IBM Friday said it has struck a deal to sell its telecom billing platform to CSG Systems for an undisclosed amount. The Armonk, N.Y.-based giant said this is one of the last asset sales the company has planned as part of its recent cost cutting. Englewood, Colo.-based CSG’s products set up customer accounts, process orders, […]

Since changing its strategy, search engine pure play Inktomi Corp. has been making inroads into server boxes. The Foster City, Calif.-based company’s latest deal announced this week includes combining its Inktomi Enterprise Search software inside Microsoft Content Management Server. The combo means customers can use Inktomi’s index and retrieve Web content managed by Microsoft’s Server. […]

New worldwide stats released Friday reveal a real horse race in the computer server sector. In the first quarter after its merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard drew even with perennial market leader IBM with respect to total factory revenue for new servers – with both companies registering a 27.8 percent market share, according to analyst firm, […]

Officials at Internet song-swapping bad boy Napster Thursday asked a Delaware court to please let them live to see another day. The company is hoping to sell their assets to Bertelsmann AG. The German-based media company has machinations on reviving Napster as a legitimate pay-to-download music provider like MusicNet or pressplay. For all intentional purposes, […]