Michael Singer

Intel is expected to invigorate its troubled Itanium family next week with a batch of new “Madison” processors. Sources familiar with the company told internetnews.com the chip making giant will debut three versions of its Intel Itanium 2 IA-64 processor: a multi-processor (MP); a dual-processor code-named Fanwood (DP); and a low voltage processor (LV) code-named […]

Chris Stone, who was instrumental in Novell’s acquisition of SUSE Linux, has left for other pursuits, the company said Thursday. No successor has been named. Stone served as Vice Chairman of the Office of the CEO and was one of the most visible figures in the Provo, Utah-based company’s forays into open source. Stone had […]

Online payment provider PayPal’s move to expand its mobile payment service division could be another sign that micropayments are gaining traction in the mobile market, analysts told internetnews.com. The payment subsidiary of eBay confirmed that it is looking to hire a product manager for a possible expansion of its mobile payments, which it posted on […]

A less favorable supply-and-demand balance for memory products is putting a damper on an otherwise record-breaking semiconductor sales forecast, an industry trade group said Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which updated its annual forecast for 2004-2007, said it is anticipating record sales of $214 billion in 2004 followed by essentially flat sales in 2005. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Service providers faced with a growing amount of subpoenas and DMCA “take-down” requests should consider cleaning their network logs, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The San Francisco-based legal advocacy firm has published a set of best practices for ISPs to protect themselves from getting mired in privacy or copyright infringement […]

A plan to help network various consumer devices is getting a boost this week thanks to a newly formed group of consumer electronics companies and chipmakers. The Universal Home Application Programming Interface (UHAPI) Forum is the brainchild of the semiconductor divisions of Philips and Samsung Electronics. The firms partnered earlier this year to develop a […]

If you were expecting a sneak peak of an open source Solaris or to buy a commercial version next week when it launches, don’t hold your breath. Although Sun Microsystems said it is on track to officially launch Solaris 10, the next generation server operating system, on Nov. 15 at its Network Computing 04Q4 event […]

Wired and wireless ISPs are preparing for a healthy debate over the future of VoIP, WiMAX and other provider issues as ISPCON rolls into Silicon Valley this week. The show co-produced by The Golden Group and Jupitermedia is expected to pull in hundreds of attendees for the fourth year in a row all looking to […]

AMD and Fujitsu have embarked on a new line of advanced Flash memory to address an explosion of consumer electronics products, the companies said Tuesday. The collaboration comes from AMD’s Spansion subsidiary, which is producing an entirely new Flash memory family based on the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), an emerging serial communication standard with a […]

HP is expected to unveil a new line of stackable switching products this week in an attempt to maintain its No. 2 position behind Cisco. But the market leader reportedly has a few tricks up its own sleeve. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker is introducing its new ProCurve lineup at an industry […]

Intel took the wraps off a new Pentium processor and related chipset to satisfy the appetite of hardcore, high-budget gamers and multimedia enthusiasts. The company’s new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor ($999 in bulk) and 925XE Express desktop chipset debuting today feature a faster 1066MHz front-side bus compared to the 800MHz bus of the 925X […]

Oracle’s latest (and apparently its last) offer of $24 per share has triggered a maelstrom of opinions — most pointing toward a complete takeover of rival PeopleSoft. Analysts are quick to point out the revised offer worth an estimated $9.2 billion intensifies strain on any negotiations between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and PeopleSoft CEO Dave […]