Michael Singer

National Semiconductor took the wraps off a pair of I/O devices it said could help protect a computer from hackers and viruses. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker said its new SafeKeeper brand PC8374T Desktop device in a PQFP-128 package is ready now and its PC8392T Notebook Trusted I/O device will be available before the end […]

Infineon’s admission of price fixing has the rest of the chip-manufacturing sector scrambling to steer clear of the government’s ongoing probe. The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with the German-based Infineon who admitted Wednesday to overcharging for its Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) between July 1, 1999 and June 15, 2002. The deal […]

Sun Microsystems may have saved itself from years of costly litigation when it settled with Microsoft over their long-running Java dispute, but a clause in the landmark deal has open source supporters parsing its potential impact. The provision allows Microsoft to “sue or otherwise seek recovery from an authorized licensee of OpenOffice” that was in […]

Researchers at MIT’s Sloan Center for eBusiness and Intel are trying to improve e-commerce trust with a new online system called WebTrust methodology. “The WebTrust methodology has enabled us to generate superior trust between our Web site and our customers,” said Bryan Rhoads, Web Strategist for Intel and the Intel team lead. He cited the […]

Despite numerous legal and regulatory hurdles, more and more analysts are advising their clients to prepare for Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft, especially those who are JD Edwards customers. Last week, a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to block Oracle’s takeover bid for PeopleSoft. The 164-page ruling handed Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle […]

Two high-tech communications players have completed the first phase in a series of tests to show how a next-generation IP data and communications infrastructure works. Phone giant Nokia and systems vendor NEC successfully completed interoperability testing between their IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), the companies said Wednesday. The tests were designed to show how major IMS […]

Hoping to bring more PC-like functions to non-desktop devices, AMD took the wraps off the latest round of its Geode NX processors. Based on the company’s x86 Athlon architecture, the new Geode NX 1250@6W chip is designed for thin clients, printers, point of sale, information and transaction kiosks and telecommunications networking equipment. The Geode processor […]

Oracle launched a new program that lets its partners build their own virtual outsourcing businesses, the company said Monday. Based on its “Oracle On Demand” business model, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant has extended the baseline offerings to independent software vendors (ISVs) at a fraction of the cost as part of its Oracle Technology […]

Computer systems manufacturer NEC announced a new four-way utility server designed to help CIOs with their consolidation issues, the company said Monday. The NEC Express5800/340Hb FT is also one of several manufactures pledging support for the upcoming Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. NEC’s base unit starts at $149,999 and comes standard with four Intel Xeon MP […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems is quickly revamping its Sun Fire server family with its latest UltraSPARC processors, the company said Friday. The systems vendor said it is currently shipping two new 1.05/1.2 GHz UltraSPARC IV Sun Fire servers — the v480 and the v880 — to partners today. It expects to announce volume shipping […]

Qualcomm will shell out $170 million for Iridigm, a display technology outfit whose patented iMoD technology is based on a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) structure combined with thin film optics. Qualcomm said the acquisition is for the approximate 86 percent of Iridigm that it does not already own. The deal awaits SEC regulatory approval, and, Iridigm will […]

Paul Mockapetris has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet since the beginning of his career. He created the Domain Name System (DNS) in the 1980s at USC’s Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI’s High Performance Computing and Communications Division. His earliest work at […]