Michael Singer

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Tuesday became the latest high-tech company to buckle under the dot-com industry’s downturn saying it would cut 866 jobs. “Based on current business conditions, at this time the Company expects to reduce our worldwide workforce by approximately 1-2 percent through normal attrition and regular business performance assessments, in line with our ongoing […]

The saying goes that if you take an infinite amount of monkey’s with an infinite amount of typewriters eventually they will write Shakespeare’s literary masterpiece, Hamlet. But, what if you took an infinite amount of idle desktop computers and servers and let them talk to each other? It’s called peer-to-peer or distributed computing and according […]

Online music download site EMusic.com (Nasdaq: EMUS), says it is extending an olive branch to Napster fans this week by inviting them to try its MP3 download service for free. The offer comes as Napster is expected to purge about 135,000 songs from its online song swapping service by this Wednesday. Starting today for one […]

Live365, an Internet radio community, struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement Thursday with PenguinRadio to offer more than 29,000 Live365 stations through PenguinRadio’s player. PenguinRadio (based in Washington, D.C. with a hardware development crew based in Sunnyvale) is developing a stand-alone Linux-based Internet audio device as well as a platform for bringing Internet radio to mobile […]

Shares of Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) came to a grinding halt a few minutes after the bell sounded Wednesday morning on the Nasdaq after a sea of rumors about the Santa Clara-based Internet portal. “We called Yahoo after we pulled the plug on the company’s trading at 9:37 Eastern time,” says Nasdaq spokesperson Andy MacMillan. “We […]

Frustrated by what they say is a clear widespread disregard for copyright law; recording industry executives are drawing a line in the sand against song-swapping service Napster. A new injunction issued late Monday night by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel does not shut down Napster entirely but essentially gives Napster very little time to […]

As part of a mutual technology partnership, Redwood Shores-based software giant Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Monday says it will make all services from online print shop iPrint (NASDAQ: IPRT) available to all of Oracle’s corporate customers. “We are obviously excited by not only the technical innovation here, but the wide-sweeping business opportunity to introduce one of […]

Santa Clara-based Netergy Networks (Nasdaq: NTRG) Friday said it is closing its Canadian offices in Hull, Quebec and letting 44 people go as a part of a restructuring plan. Netergy still employs a staff of 280 in Santa Clara. “We had engineers, some sales people and a marketing staff up there,” says Netergy VP of […]

How many separate applications do you launch on your computer to get your work done? Two? Six? Twenty-five? In general, the more you have open – the longer it takes to do the job. So, some companies build corporate portals. If you haven’t seen or used one, think of it as sort of mix and […]

It weighs about four ounces, fits in the palm of your hand and lets you talk to home appliances like your refrigerator through basic email communications. Cermetek Microelectronics says its latest modem is the key to the modern Internet Modem Appliance. “Let’s say your fridge is on the fritz,” says Cermetek VP Roy Selinger. “With […]

Internet security firm, McAfee.com (Nasdaq: MCAF) Monday said more people clicked through its site for the first time between last October and December. That may have also contributed to an increase in earnings. Sunnyvale-based McAfee.com reports more than 53 million unique visitors visited the site in the fourth quarter, an average of nearly 580,000 a […]

Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS) and San Francisco-based salesforce.com Wednesday announced a strategic partnership that lets salesforce’s business customers to tap into Sprint’s online customer relationship management (CRM) applications on their Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones. The new application will be rolled out in the next few months. Early adopters of the CRM applications will be able […]