Michael Singer

When the dust settled from the Oracle , Dell and Red Hat “Unbreakable” Linux love fest, there was a cry from outside the room. It was Hewlett-Packard scratching at the door saying, “Can we come in? We love Linux too.” The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker must have done some real sweet-talking because […]

3Com Corp. said Thursday that it will consolidate two of its business units to cut costs and move forward. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which has to fight for market share from rival Cisco Systems , said it will merge its Business Connectivity Company (BCC) into its Business Networks Company (BNC). “One year ago, the […]

Wireless giant QUALCOMM Tuesday revised its popular Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) client software. Dubbed BREW 2.0, the San Diego-based company said its new client software and accompanying free BREW Software Development Kit (SDK) add increased security features, better multimedia and graphics capabilities as well as more extensive location-based information, HTML-based capabilities, and short […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — A trio of high tech CEOs joined forces Wednesday in a move to unseat IBM as the Linux vendor of choice. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, and Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said they are fully committing themselves to Linux for the enterprise. “Boy it feels awfully […]

A weakness discovered Tuesday in Domain Name System (DNS) servers running ISC BIND 9 prior to 9.2.1 forced officials to issue an advisory to potential denial-of-service attacks. The memo sent out by the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT) said the threat could be widespread considering that the BIND DNS Server is used on […]

The country’s second largest wireless phone company Tuesday said it has tapped BEA Systems, Inc. to help it with its standard application platform. Among Cingular’s first BEA-powered applications are a retail-sales system, a Web-based activation service and an employee portal that is slated to roll out this month. Cingular, a joint venture of SBC and […]

Cow-themed computer maker Gateway, Inc. and ISP provider EarthLink, Inc. Tuesday cut a deal to blaze a broadband trail across the U.S. The news comes one day after SBC Communications and Yahoo! officially kicked off their SBC Yahoo Dial service with the promise of a combined DSL rollout in 13 of SBC’s operating states later […]

Financial software maker Intuit Inc. said it has signed an agreement to buy Management Reports, Inc. (MRI) for $92 million in cash. Known for its offline software like Quicken, QuickBooks, Quicken Loans and TurboTax, Mountain View, Calif.-based Intuit said the acquisition would give them a strong place in the $400 million global property management software […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is optimistic going forward with the company’s outlook for 2003. Speaking for the first time since the Compaq merger, Fiorina, new company president and former Compaq CEO Michael Capellas and COO Bob Wayman brought forward their best financial estimates before a panel of analysts. HP Tuesday said it expects overall revenues […]

Officials with Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA Monday unveiled plans on unseating Intel as king of the semiconductors. The two Silicon Valley-based companies agreed to configure NVIDIA nForce Platform Processors and GeForce Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for optimal use with AMD’s next-generation Opteron processor and eighth-generation Athlon architectures. AMD said its new Opteron processor will […]

Wingcast, a joint venture between Ford and QUALCOMM , has had its wings clipped before even really getting off the ground. The two companies Monday said they would dissolve the San Diego-based partnership to whose goal was to provide telematics in some model year 2003 vehicles and compete with General Motors’ OnStar service as the […]

E-commerce software maker Peregrine Systems Monday announced sweeping changes to both its management and product lineup. The San Diego-based firm is in the middle of restating nearly three years of financial results and an SEC investigation. Nearly a month after former CEO Steve Gardner and CFO Matt Glass left the company, Peregrine said it has […]