Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — The job of connecting all the consumer electronics devices in your home is getting a boost with the formation of an alliance of some 145 consumer and electronics companies. The consortium now known as the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is an offshoot of the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG), which was […]

IBM has developed a new chip-to-chip interconnect that uses high-speed light pulses and optical connections, the company said. The process, commonly known as silicon photonics, is designed to replace parts of the intricate web of wires that surround a processor and its various components. The technology is based on optical fibers that can carry multiple […]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that chipmaker AMD can request its archrival Intel to turn over documents as part of a wider investigation by the European Union. But the case does have the ability to set a precedent for a wider range of discovery in cases outside of the United States. In a 7-1 […]

Apple Computer is a week away from releasing its second-generation Remote Desktop software for centrally managing Mac OS X systems. The release, which sports some 50 new features, will correspond with the Macintosh maker’s annual developer’s conference in San Francisco. The software lets administrators distribute and install software, copy files, gather asset-management information and remotely […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Fear of Oracle is apparently causing many sleepless nights over at Microsoft , according to court testimony Friday. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice wrapped up the second week of its legal battle to prevent Oracle from proceeding with its $7.7 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft . The government hopes its […]

Digital rights management (DRM) player, Macrovision , said it has struck a deal valued at $96 million to acquire privately held InstallShield. The agreement will give Macrovision’s FLEXnet software licensing and management platform a larger presence in Schaumburg, Ill.-based InstallShield’s large software-developer customer base. At last count, InstallShield’s software and services reached more than 69,000 […]

Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols. He serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and was founding president of the Internet Society as well as honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum. Today, Cerf […]

Enterprises looking at Intel’s next-generation chipsets will need to give them a thorough test-drive before adopting them, industry analysts said this week. At pre-launch parties in San Francisco and New York today, Intel showed off the highly anticipated desktop and workstation components (codenamed Grantsdale and Alderwood, respectively), which are designed to support Intel’s 90-nanometer “Prescott” […]

Sleepycat Software is seeing value in the Java brand. So much so that it released a new version of its database software, which is written in pure Java. Based on a write-once, append-only log architecture, the company’s Berkeley DB Java Edition is significant for Sleepycat in that it keeps them competitive with other database vendors […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems said it will take an “aggressive” approach to opening up the source code of its core operating system. It just isn’t saying when. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker fended off questions from reporters and analysts Tuesday during a briefing centered on the major developments for Solaris 10. The […]

Recognizing a need to support open source technologies, a consortium of InfiniBand companies today announced the formation of OpenIB Alliance. Its first task will be to develop a common Linux implementation for InfiniBand configurations. InfiniBand is an open-standard clustering, communication, storage and embedded interconnect with transmission rates of now 30 gigabits per second. Instead of […]

More than a year after its debut, AMD is gearing up for some core shifts to its 64-bit processor families. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said it has completed the design of its first dual-core 64-bit, x86 compatible chip, which it expects to debut in servers in mid-2005. A dual-core desktop version for high-end client […]