Michael Singer

Chalk up another win for Sun Microsystems’ push to the desktop. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker signed a deal this week with Sourcenext, Japan’s largest computer products distributor, to put Sun’s StarSuite 7 Office Productivity Suite on store shelves and available for download though distribution sites. Sun said its StarSuite 7 software will […]

Much like its namesake which helped crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, RosettaNet is creating a common language and standard processes for some very disparate sections of e-business. RosettaNet’s CEO Jennifer Hamilton is responsible for envisioning RosettaNet’s strategic direction and making RosettaNet the de-facto B2B standards organization. Internetnews.com sat down with Hamilton to talk about […]

Texas Instruments on Thursday announced that president and CEO Tom Engibous will step down after eight years. He will continue to serve as the Dallas chip maker’s chairman. TI’s directors have selected Rich Templeton to succeed him as part of a planned succession. Templeton currently serves as COO and has been at the company for […]

Looking to keep its edge in the Linux market, Hewlett-Packard Thursday announced additions to its Linux portfolio, including new desktop PCs and notebooks running Linux. In advance of next week’s LinuxWorld in New York, the computer and printer maker took the wraps off of several new Linux reference architectures, including commercial Linux reference architectures based […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The man who invented the Java programming language says competition has been healthy in the development sector, but advises that companies should at least use the same APIs when creating their toolboxes. James Gosling, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Technology Officer for Sun’s Developer Platform, said the key to keeping interoperability between application servers […]

Intel continued its profit streak during the fourth quarter of 2003, despite a three-month period in which it took a $611 million write-off. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its net income for the period was $2.2 billion, (33 cents per share), up more than double from $1 billion (16 cents per share) […]

Intel Tuesday said it has inked a deal that will put some 10,000 of its mobile processors in one of the most connected places in the world. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said Allianz Life Korea is purchasing some 3,000 notebooks running its Centrino brand of chipsets by February and an additional 7,000 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — While its Itanium chip is surging ahead, Intel Tuesday released some new software that makes its high performance server chip think a little about the past. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its new IA-32 Execution Layer (EL) software is now available as part of its Intel Enterprise Compiler v.8 […]

Novell said it would indemnify its customers against potential intellectual property challenges to its SUSE Linux version, in the face of SCO Group’s copyright challenge of some parts of the Linux operating system code. The Provo, Utah-based network software maker, which Tuesday completed its $210 million acquisition of German-based SUSE, said the protection only applies […]

Search giant Google on Monday added five new ways to find information on the Web, providing paid listings customers with huge potential new opportunities for marketing themselves. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which is on the cusp of filing an IPO, said its new search technologies are short cuts to useful information such as area […]

Intel is among the companies bankrolling a new fund to defend open source users from potential intellectual property lawsuits brought by SCO Group . The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker, IBM and others have given a total of $3 million to start the account, which will be overseen by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When you think of the server and storage companies of the world, do you think of Apple Computer ? Chances are that you don’t, but you might want to this year. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker, best known for its desktop systems, is quietly making gains in server rooms and data centers […]