Michael Singer

When Apple Computer czar Steve Jobs takes the stage for his annual state of the company keynote next week, the Macintosh mastermind will announce a new iPod and a host of other product upgrades internetnews.com has learned. Sources close to the company say Apple will introduce entry-level versions of its popular music player with a […]

A federal judge has dismissed a “spam” lawsuit filed by America Online , according to lawyers defending a group of Florida-based computer technicians. The case, dismissed last week by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claimed the defendants had conspired with others to send bulk e-mails through AOL’s Virginia computer […]

Thanks to this year’s interest in multi-function devices in Asia, research consultancy IDC is estimating double-digit chip sales next year. The Framingham, Mass.-based concern’s analysts said mobile phones and PCs will be the main drivers of a healthy growth cycle for over half of the semiconductor industry, which IDC expects will grow 18 percent this […]

Although the Internet has become a fairly interactive medium, video on the Web is rarely more than television content re-purposed in a static window. Enter Macromedia . The San Francisco-based Web graphics software maker Wednesday launched its new Flash Video Streaming Service primarily for the North American markets as a way to get companies to […]

Best known for dominance in computers and servers, Intel is preparing its chips for digital televisions, internetnews.com has learned. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant would not comment on the published reports circulating this week, but sources say Intel will announce new semiconductors for television manufacturers during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month […]

Research consultancy IDC handed out some early holiday cheer to the makers of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips. The Framingham, Mass.-based concern issued a forecast for positive growth in the worldwide DRAM market for the next two years. However, the report is tempered with a prediction that oversupply due to expanding production by 12-inch fabs […]

Some of the biggest names in IT are meeting this week in order to simplify and standardize the way customers control and manage network servers. The main problem that is drawing these competitors together is that enterprises are struggling to manage and support different systems from different vendors, with all their different tools and processes. […]

Wireless component manufacturer PCTEL has settled one of a handful of patent infringement lawsuits pertaining to its “soft modems” and other voice band modem technology. The Chicago-based company said chipmaker Broadcom has agreed to payout a lump sum of $3.5 million for past damages and for the two patents relating to Ethernet technology. The case […]

SAN FRANCISCO — After a tumultuous year of building and tweaking its flagship operating system, Sun Microsystems is going after IT managers with new incentives on Solaris on non-SPARC servers. During a briefing Monday, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said it would waive the $20 evaluation fee it has been charging on the […]

Looking to enhance its presence in the data center, Microsoft has unwrapped the latest version of its server software that links past systems with current and future ones. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released the beta version of its Host Integration Server (HIS) 2004. The release marks the first new-product testing since the February 2000 […]

Texas Instruments is heralding a new wireless processor for smartphones or PDAs. Due out in sample form in the first quarter of 2004, the Dallas chipmaker said its multimedia-enhanced OMAP1710 will handle applications 40 percent better than previous versions at about half the power consumption. The new chip is expected to compete with similar offerings […]

Hewlett-Packard Thursday said it has signed a blanket contract with partner PlanetGov to help the IRS consolidate its servers and network storage devices. As part of the deal, Chantilly, Va.-based IRS contractor PlanetGov and HP will replace an undisclosed percentage of the 4,400 IBM and Dell servers and approximately 30 storage area networks (SANs) currently […]