Michael Singer

A handful of employees from Oracle and Northrop Grumman subsidiary Logicon will testify next month during a California Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) investigation, Internetnews.com has learned. The five salesmen with the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant and three from Herndon, VA-based Logicon will be questioned June 4 and 5 about their involvement in a […]

Chipmaker Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) Tuesday took the wraps off a its next generation, single-chip combined cable TV set-top box/cable modem and satellite solution. The company is heralding its newest multiprocessor – the Broadcom BCM7110 system-on-a-chip for cable modems – as the answer to personal video recording (PVR) makers who want to incorporate advanced interactive TV […]

Chipmaker Broadcom Corporation Tuesday took the wraps off a its next generation, single-chip combined cable TV set-top box/cable modem and satellite solution. The company is heralding its newest set of multiprocessor – the Broadcom BCM7110 system-on-a-chip for cable modems – as the answer to personal video recording (PVR) makers who want to incorporate advanced interactive […]

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday said it has scored two deals that will give its PDA users new and improved services. And we’re not talking about the Jornada… No, no, no… We’re talking about the iPAQ, which the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker acquired from Compaq Computer and has decided to pursue in its product line. […]

A new worm wriggling around the Internet is quickly spread among KaZaA file sharing networks, anti-virus experts warned Monday. This as the rogue file-sharing network is beginning its new life as a legitimate business player. Known as ‘Benjamin,’ the virus masquerades as popular music, video and software files to make it more likely users will […]

Network attached storage (NAS) systems maker BlueArc Corp. said Monday that it will install one of its 115 terabyte storage systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as part of an estimated $13 million Linux-based clustering project nicknamed Lustre. LLNL’s Multi-Programmatic and Institutional Computing Capability Resource (MCR) cluster project is expected to help the U.S. […]

Less than three days after Napster founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers said they were leaving the project for good, along comes Bertelsmann with an offer they couldn’t refuse: Buy Napster for $8 million; clear out the company’s debt and hire back most of the key players. In addition to resuming his duties as […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday redoubled its efforts to beat rival IBM at its own server game. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based networking giant said its recently launched Project “Blue Away” is now targeting IBM’s midrange capacity mainframe customers. The mid-market mainframe sector represents a potential $1 billion opportunity that Sun intends to lead with its Sun Fire […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday gave a glimpse of its future in the arena of blade servers. While the overall picture at the post-merger Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker has been outlined, specific product lines are still being tweaked. The company took the wraps off its combined blade server family, which HP is touting as the […]

In its last pre-merger earnings report, Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday said it made a profit for its fiscal second-quarter . The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker is now officially merged with Compaq Computer and has changed its ticker symbol to HPQ. The company said its imaging and printing business as well as cost cutting […]

Advanced Micro Devices Monday said it has been sampling the its first MirrorBit Flash memory device, which would become generally available at the end of June. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said its 64 Megabit product is a breakthrough that allows a Flash memory device to hold twice as much data as standard Flash. AMD said […]

Officials with the Federal Trade Commission are looking into anti-trust violations by Rambus , according to reports released Monday. The Los Altos, Calif.-based semiconductor-maker could be served with the lawsuit papers as early as today. The suit is based on Rambus’ plans to creating a memory chip standard with the computer industry while concurrently securing […]