Michael Singer

After watching nearly every other semiconductor manufacturer produce their x86 64-bit chips, VIA Technologies has come to the table. The Taiwan-based company revealed details of its next-generation low-power Isaiah processor core this week at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. The company joins a growing number of chipmakers, such as Intel, AMD that […]

Take a Web application that thinks it’s a developer’s tool, add two Excite.com founders and you have a recipe for a new startup that wants to spread wiki technology to the mainstream. Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer — two of the original founders of the Internet search engine — officially launched their new venture “JotSpot” […]

Former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway has become central to Oracle’s argument in favor of taking over PeopleSoft . During the company’s ongoing civil suit in Delaware, the ousted executive defended himself against Oracle’s lawyers who questioned Conway about his part in PeopleSoft’s Customer Assurance Program (CAP). On the stand Wednesday, Conway justified his negative campaign […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Can’t find that last bit of Java code to complete your project? IBM is developing a search engine it claims will let Java developers find even the briefest code examples in a fraction of the time it now takes. Code-named “Prospector,” the engine seeks out code examples that use any or all […]

Hoping to solidify the often-diverse smartphone marketplace, three high tech companies said they are collaborating on future 3G developments. Phone giant Nokia announced Tuesday that it will use Intel technology in its future Series 60 Platform smartphones. The companies forged the relationship after Intel joined Nokia’s Series 60 Product Creation Community. In another partnership, Intel […]

Siebel Systems is padding its partnerships in an effort to advance its vision of on-demand CRM and Business Intelligence software, the company said Monday. The company announced at its User Week conference this week that it has inked a deal with IBM to develop a new Siebel Enterprise Analytic Applications platform. The combination of BI […]

Sun Microsystems is expected to herald the arrival of its latest dual-core UltraSPARC processor today. Code-named “Panther,” the company claims the second generation of its dual-core design, known as the UltraSPARC IV+, is twice as fast running applications than its existing UltraSPARC IV family. The processor, which was spared by Sun during its

Lawyers for Oracle asked a federal court to remove one of the last few obstacles in the company’s hostile $7.7 billion bid for PeopleSoft . Oracle’s lawsuit, filed in Delaware, claims PeopleSoft’s Customer Assurance Program (CAP) and subsequent “poison pill” provisions are unlawful. The CEO at the time, Craig Conway, misled investors and sheltered his […]

Intel released a new suite of developers’ tools it hopes will increase the amount of people using its 64-bit technology. But while the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant regularly supplies its developers with compilers, libraries and analyzers, Intel is taking it one step further by making its testing software compatible with other backwards-compatible chips […]

Analysis — The stars are aligning for Oracle’s acquisition plans for PeopleSoft, but analysts say customers need to set their compasses to watch all the players in enterprise software applications if the deal goes through. Two obstacles cleared out of the database software giant’s path to PeopleSoft Friday. The U.S. Department of Justice said it […]

Oracle advanced its plans to acquire PeopleSoft Friday after the U.S. Department of Justice said it would not appeal a ruling on an antitrust case that tried to block the merger. The news came on the same day of PeopleSoft’s stunning announcement that the company’s board of directors fired CEO Craig Conway and replaced him […]

Ben Horowitz was working at America Online as a vice president and general manager when his old friend Marc Andreessen called and asked him to join his new project: a data center automation software company called LoudCloud. Now the company is known as Opsware and has marquee contracts with such organizations as systems integrator EDS, […]