Michael Singer

Semiconductor sales continued to rise in the first part of 2004, fueled in part by non-PC equipment, according to new statistics released this week. The

SAN FRANCISCO -- Janus is known as the Roman god of beginnings and the guardian of gates and doors, which may be why Sun Microsystems chose the name to

SAN FRANCISCO -- Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik summed up the feeling of most enterprise Linux vendors this week when asked to describe the current state of

Sun Microsystems and the Web3D Consortium announced Monday that they have formed a working group to develop a binary file format encoding for X3D. The two

SAN FRANCISCO -- Red Hat and Sun Microsystems have been trading verbal barbs of late. But, using each other's strengths and strategies, they're preparing

IBM introduced a new technique it claims will allow it to make semiconductors that can take care of themselves. Using a patented technology called

Sun Microsystems' mere suggestion that it could buy Novell is raising more than red flags in the IT industry. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal

To break away from the pack of other 64-bit Intel-related news this week, Dell is hoping to beat its rivals with a revision to its server management

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Intel's vision of an always-connected planet is coming up against finite wireless spectrum, and enterprise had better hope it breaks

The goal of open sourcing parts of Java inched closer to reality this week thanks to some vigorous discussion by technology leaders. Executives at Sun

Like a scene straight out of Sally Fields' 1985 Oscar acceptance speech, Microsoft is awed with the response it is getting to its contributions to the

A proposed data mining specification for J2EE-compliant application servers has gotten approval from a Java standards board. In a statement Thursday, the