Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO – If only the “Good Die Young,” do the “Known Good Die?” Well they do if they have anything to do with Bluetooth wireless technology. Silicon Wave, Inc., which makes RF communication system components and software, Tuesday launched its most aggressive campaign with the debut of its new low-power, second-generation Bluetooth radio modems […]

The rivalry between Digital Video Recorder makers SONICblue and TiVo turned up a notch Tuesday. With a new U.S. patent in its hand, SONICblue cryptically announced that it would contact its rival about a licensing agreement for its ReplayTV set top box. A spokesperson for SONICblue said that TiVo has been contacted. TiVo disputes the […]

Most media companies create the content and then augment it with the Web presence. E*TRADE Group is taking a different route with its “must see” E*TRADE On Air and the launch of its new Media Center. In E*TRADE’s case, the company had a successful Web presence that is spawning a television show… and now another […]

Content infrastructure software maker Interwoven says it is putting the finishing touches on streamlining the corporate portal for online legal and business information site LexisNexis. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Interwoven says with its XML-based software in place, LexisNexis employees can now post content on their own terms, using familiar office tools, to provide more accurate and timely […]

Two Silicon Valley-based companies working in the content management sector Thursday signed a pact to offer a complete managing and retrieving content package for medium to large corporations. The solution is a combination of Pleasanton, Calif.-based Documentum‘s 4i eBusiness Platform and Inktomi‘s Enterprise Search tools. The idea is to provide a single interface for finding, […]

According to a coalition of Internet service providers, a telecommunications bill before congress has the potential of stranding thousands consumers and businesses just like some 850,000 @Home customers did this past weekend. At issue is the Tauzin-Dingell bill, also known as the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, H.R. 1542. The bill calls for the […]

Adobe Systems Wednesday says it has acquired privately-owned Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Fotiva, Inc., which was once known as PhotoTablet. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. Fotiva employees joining Adobe will become part of Adobe’s Graphics Business Unit. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe says the acquisition supports its strategy to help consumers manage, store, enrich, […]

In the game of Survivor, alliances are everything. So it comes as no surprise that a host of companies are announcing this week at this year’s OpenWorld conference that they are running the same race as Oracle . Network Appliance (NetApp) is no exception. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which specializes in network-attached data access and […]

New York City fire fighters and police became the first to participate in a high tech initiative Tuesday that lets people record and send digital video e-mail messages of support and thanks to military personnel overseas. “Give Thanks America,” launched yesterday with the help of companies like Compaq Computer , Digital Island and Sorenson Media […]

Oracle Tuesday trumped itself at this year’s OpenWorld conference. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based database software giant began the week toting its Oracle9i Application Server and Tuesday released its latest upgrade with Oracle9iAS Release 2. The upgraded application server includes advanced clustering, caching and some 250 new features including support for the latest J2EE standard. The […]

A brand new worm slithering through the Web is getting passed by Microsoft Outlook home and businesses users and is so bad it has the potential of wiping out complete files. Anti-virus experts at McAfee.com identified the worm early Tuesday morning and have named it the Pentagone or “Goner” after its identification string W32/Goner@MM. The […]

Ever since Oracle CEO Larry Ellison boasted about how his software products can make a company virtually “Unbreakable,” the company has been fending off critics who say that there is no such thing. Now Ellison and a host of his partners and clients have a chance to prove their point at this year’s OpenWorld conference […]