Michael Singer

Intel Tuesday said it will slowly shut down its Intel Online Services (IOS) Web hosting business over the next 12 months. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant, IOS provides managed Web services, mostly for businesses, but also for some of Intel’s internal operations. The company said it will […]

PayPal Monday forged a relationship to combine its online payment process with digital shipping tools courtesy of United Parcel Service (UPS). The new service, dubbed “PayPal Shipping With UPS,” starts Thursday and allows shipping functions to be completed by buyer or seller within PayPal’s Web site. The service is available to any PayPal user. The […]

BlueLight.com Tuesday officially shuttered its own individual site and began its new life with parent site Kmart . Visitors to either property are redirected to the Bluelight.com URL, but greeted with the Kmart logo and store specials. The changes reflect the Troy, Mich.-based discount retailer’s attempts to emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and win back […]

Internet messaging firm Critical Path Inc. Tuesday crawled back into the positive spotlight with the announcement of a handful of new services and a partner program. The San Francisco-based company had been riddled by scandal including the departure of founder David Hayden from the board of directors, an accounting irregularities investigation by the SEC and […]

Electronics manufacturing company Solectron Corp. Tuesday said has acquired privately-owned Magnetic Data Technologies (MDT) for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is part of Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron’s strategy to expand its after-sales service presence in commodity segments, such as printed circuit board assemblies, liquid crystal displays and hard-disk drives, to provide complete systems solutions to customers. […]

Networking equipment giant Cisco Systems unveiled several advances to its switching arsenal. The San Jose, Calif.-based company said it is targeting the needs of mid-sized network edge systems with its new Cisco Catalyst 3550 and 2950 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches and companion free downloadable software. Using elements of SAFE, Cisco’s security blueprint for AVVID (Architecture […]

A new Silicon-Valley-based start-up making its official debut Monday is sure to ruffle feathers in the industry. San Bruno, Calif.-based InQuira has come out of stealth mode with a new search engine, a new round of funding and a new host of big-name clients. InQuira says its platform, based on its Natural Interaction Engine technology, […]

As part of its announced product road map, Hewlett-Packard said it will unveil the newest version of its HP-UX operating environment (OE) next week. The current version, HP-UX 11i, is the UNIX operating environment that powers e-services and HP-UX servers on both PA-RISC and Intel Itanium processor families. The new unnamed version will debut Monday. […]

Ticketmaster expanded its empire Friday with the purchase of Ticket Service Nederland B.V., a large live event ticketing company based in The Hague. The Dutch company, which has been around since June 30, 1998, sells an estimated 3 million event tickets every year for some of the country’s leading event producers. The Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster […]

Network Associates said Thursday that its McAfee Security division has signed a strategic alliance with MSN South Africa to offer managed anti-virus for desktops. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Web security company said MSN will start offering its VirusScan ASaP service to home offices and small and medium businesses. The area could certainly use some help. […]

A mere week after Yahoo! patched holes in its instant messaging platform, the company continues to clean up after the security threat. On May 27, 2002, the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT) discovered a buffer overflow and a URL validation vulnerability in the Yahoo! Messenger client for Windows. Yahoo! released a fixed version […]

The threat of war between India and Pakistan forced U.S. officials to issue travel warnings this week to the two countries. The safety precaution has been upsetting to people with loved ones in the area. But the restrictions are felt deeply in the Silicon Valley. The area has the highest population of Indian and Pakistani […]