Michael Singer

Intel Wednesday confirmed that it has auctioned off its assembly plant in Puerto Rico for an undisclosed price. The 428,000 square-foot manufacturing and distribution complex on 60 acres included six connected buildings. The plant assembled network interface cards and motherboards. The buyer, Lightstone Real Estate Partners, LLC, issued a statement saying it plans to re-position […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Building on its “Unwired” mantra, Intel Wednesday announced new additions to its mobile processor lineup including new chipsets that will help power laptops, PDAs and smartphones. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant announced its next Intel Pentium M processor, code-named Dothan; a computing platform based on Intel Centrino mobile technology, […]

Hoping to get its new chips into more mainstream systems, Transmeta Wednesday said it has inked a deal with graphics chip maker NVIDIA . The two Santa Clara-based companies said they have worked for two years to develop NVIDIA’s C8000 companion chip for Transmeta’s next generation TM8000 or Efficeon processor. The chip, which is in […]

MILLBRAE, Calif. — A gathering of ISPs, anti-spammers, and e-mail marketers gathered Tuesday to hammer out ways to fight the glut of spam while protecting the livelihood of direct online advertising. More than 40 companies including Microsoft , AOL and delegates from companies like RoadRunner, Mail-Filters, YesMail and CheetahMail were represented as part of the […]

Apple Computer Tuesday tweaked its product lineup with a revised PowerBook and a couple of wireless peripherals. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker said its all-new 15-inch PowerBook has been upgraded to a G4 running up to 1.25 GHz with 512KB on-chip level 2 cache, an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 with 64MB DDR RAM, support for […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Tuesday took bold steps to consolidate its Java-based product line into a half dozen offerings. As part of its third quarterly Network Computing 03 (NC03Q3) launch and Sun Network conference here, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker debuted its Sun Java System, which boils down its entire line of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Twice a year, Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) promises to move the industry in different directions. If customer pre-announcements are any indication of that prediction, the fall ’03 classic should be no different. Some 4,000 developers, engineers and Intel chip aficionados are expected to attend the three-day event here, with the Santa […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Technology trade group PCMCIA Tuesday officially unveiled its 21st century replacement for the PC card — ExpressCard. Formerly known as NEWCARD, the hot-swappable expansion module for PCs and laptops is the fruit of a coalition of system OEMs, card manufacturers and connector and component manufacturers including Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Lexar […]

Despite its fondness for using Intel chips, Hewlett-Packard said Monday that it will use Transmeta processors in its next round of thin clients . The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said it will use the 533MHz and 733MHz TM5800 x86 compatible Crusoe processors in two new HP Compaq strip down desktops — the […]

Microsoft Monday said it has teamed up with two U.S. partners to help it build a smartphone running its operating system for the first time in North America. Building on its year-old wireless relationship with AT&T Wireless , the Redmond, Wash.-based company says it has also teamed with Motorola to offer the MPx200. The clamshell […]

Hoping to wipe out the spam epidemic, ISPs, anti-spammers, and e-mail marketers are scheduled to descend on Silicon Valley next week as part of the Email Deliverability Summit II. Sponsored by the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP), spam-fighting software company Habeas and direct marketing agency Rapp Digital Innovyx, the idea behind the […]

Beyond the great wall of data on the Internet lies a goldmine for enterprises called the Semantic Web. Based on standards pioneered by the W3C, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hewlett-Packard and a network of grassroots communities, the Semantic Web uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to piece together a variety of applications using XML […]