Michael Singer

The lawyers for dissident Hewlett-Packard board member Walter Hewlett finished their case against the company Thursday in a Delaware Chancery Court. Judge William B. Chandler III is expected to issue his ruling at any time. “I will get you one very quickly,” Chandler said. Hewlett and HP said they would file post-trial briefs with the […]

Talk about stealing thunder. One day after the team over at chipmaker AMD renamed its 64-bit “Sledgehammer” processor to Opteron, rival Intel Thursday gave its latest chip an official name to remember. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its new 64-bit processor, formerly code-named McKinley, will now be addressed by its formal name: […]

Two tech heavyweights got down to business Wednesday as Cable & Wireless signed a four-year deal with Cisco Systems . Financial terms of the deal were not discussed, but early estimates put the partnership in the range of several billions. As part of the technical and marketing agreement, Cisco will help Cable & Wireless build […]

Advanced Micro Devices used its time Wednesday to say hello and goodbye to two important icons in its life. The chipmaker is bidding farewell to longtime chairman and CEO W. Jerry Sanders. Sanders is stepping down this week from his post paving the way for AMD president and former Motorola exec Hector Ruiz. Sanders, who […]

Intel has a vision of the future. And what it sees is its Pentium chips being used in more laptop computers. Not too bad in the prognostication department considering the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company Tuesday took the wraps off three new Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor-Ms. Available at speeds of 1.8, 1.5 and 1.4 GHz […]

The wireless Web got a big boost Tuesday as two well-known tech companies joined forces on Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The deal between Finnish phone giant Nokia and Adobe Systems focuses on Nokia Developer’s Suite, a new wireless authoring module for Adobe GoLive 6.0 that can let designers and developers create and adapt Web content […]

Infrastructure provider Juniper Networks Tuesday launched its latest initiative to steal market share from rival Cisco Systems . Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Juniper unveiled its new Networks T-series Internet routing family, including the introduction of the T640 Internet Routing Node, (code-named “Gibson”). The routers incorporate the company’s new Matrix technology and sell between $400,000 and $500,000 depending […]

Hewlett-Packard found itself in a Delaware court Tuesday facing allegations that it used its corporate muscle at the last minute to persuade shareholders to vote for its pending $19 billion merger with Compaq Computer . Delaware Chancery Court judge William B. Chandler III heard opening statements from lawyers from the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and […]

How badly are you attached to your laptop PC? Have you ever used it in front of the TV? How about in bed? How about wearing nothing but your underwear. Well, Intel conducted a survey of about 2,400 computer users and found out some pretty interesting things. For example, some people have used their porta-PCs […]

More than two-dozen people were arrested in the Silicon Valley Thursday after FBI and other local law officials cracked down on what they are calling an international software piracy ring. The arrests, dubbed “Operation Cyberstorm” of mostly Taiwan citizens centered on pirated versions of Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Windows NT as well as Adobe […]

Upstart search engine Google this week unveiled an ingenious way to make money from its searches. Charge the user $.050 to ask a question. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company Thursday began Beta testing its new Google Answers program. The fee-based answering service charges a non-refundable $0.50 to ask a question, which then gets passed off […]

Hewlett-Packard is diving in full force to supercomputing. The company signed a $24.5 million deal this week with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to build a Linux-based supercomputer. Once fully operational, the supercomputer should be one of the fastest in the world and the world’s most powerful Linux-based supercomputer. […]