Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Tuesday launched a broad-based mobile initiative it says could forever change the way the industry thinks about the Internet. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant gathered a swarm of top-tier software vendors here for the official debut of its Mobilized Software Initiative (MSI). The program is a collaboration between the […]

Tracking products through the UPC bar code of old may go the way of the Dodo. That is if more companies follow the lead of retail magnate Wal-Mart . The Bentonville, Ark.-based-company is meeting with their top 100 suppliers beginning Tuesday to set radio frequency identification (RFID) compliance standards. The company has mandated the use […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Time was that Macromedia exclusively built tools to make the Web really cool to look at — but this is not your father’s Internet anymore. The San Francisco-based firm says it is looking to the future where its popular Flash platform dominates a user’s experience, whether they are on the desktop or […]

Swiftly, silently, Yahoo! has shuttered most of its Enterprise Software offerings; replacing them with Instant Messaging products. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet media company Monday confirmed it has realigned assets and staff relating to its My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition and Yahoo! Portal Solutions divisions. The changes also impact the remaining parts of Yahoo!’s Broadcast Solutions webcast […]

The creator of the PHP Web-scripting engine Monday said it has inked a deal to make its technology a major force in one of Sun Microsystems’ more popular Java platforms. Israel-based Zend Technologies Ltd. said it is offering two new products that meshes its technology with the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, formerly known […]

IBM Thursday said it is expanding its chip manufacturing services to focus more on chips used for wireless devices such as cell phones, wireless networks, automotive sensors and storage devices. The company said its plant in Burlington, Vt. is being modified to accommodate processors that chips used in these “radio frequency (RF)” and “mixed signal” […]

Volunteers at FreeBSD.org this week began uploading what could possibly be the last and final version of its 4.x family to its main FTP sites and corresponding mirror sites for download. The group (sometimes referred to as “beasties”) says the upgrade can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to […]

Seeing great potential in the Chinese marketplace, Oracle Wednesday officially opened a second local software development center and a new business development center in two key cities. As previously reported, the China Development Center (CDC) located in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Software Park, follows in the footsteps of the company’s first office in Shenzhen, which opened in […]

Hoping to keep ahead of the daily barrage of hacker attacks, two Silicon Valley heavyweights teamed up Wednesday to debut a new intrusion detection appliance (IDS). iForce partners Symantec and network Sun Microsystems took the wraps off of their new IDS box. The 1U rack-mount unit combines Symantec ManHunt 3.0 with a Sun Fire V60x […]

Facing a possible shut out from the burgeoning Chinese semiconductor market, one industry trade group is arguing for the repeal of the company’s Value-Added Tax (VAT) rebate scheme. The report filed Wednesday by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) characterized the practice of charging more for non-Chinese products as “discriminatory” and said it “distorts trade investments […]

The two companies that make up the phrase Wintel are hoping to strike gold again with the release of some new developers tools this week. Intel and Microsoft Tuesday announced a pre-release version of the Microsoft .NET Framework for Itanium 2 microarchitecture. The .NET Framework expands upon a previous set of tools available for Intel […]

Palm is dead. Long live Palm. The handheld computer maker Tuesday said its shareholders have approved a three-part proposal that lets Palm Inc. acquire rival Handspring and then split into two companies palmOne (hardware) and PalmSource (software). The company said stockholders of both companies approved the transaction worth an estimated $169 million in stock at […]