Michael Singer

Apple Computer Monday turned up the power on two of its more popular consumer products: the iMac and the iPod. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker improved upon its lamp-shaped iMac by giving a speed bump to its PowerPC G4 version for both 15-inch screen (USD$1,299) and 17-inch screen (USD$1,799) models. The company says its new […]

Intel filled in some of the blanks on its Itanium roadmap Monday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaking giant debuted two new processors designed for dual processor systems. As previously reported, the chips compliment large scale Itanium 2-based systems with up to 128 or more processors per system and are specially designed for high-performance computing (HPC) […]

If online consumers are unsatisfied with the service they are getting, companies are doing precious little to change that, according to a new report. The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their customers online, Friday released the results of its Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study […]

While the semiconductor and PC industries have begun their economic turnaround, the disk storage systems market is still waiting, according to one analyst firm. A report issued Friday by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC says factory revenue for worldwide disk storage systems registered in at $4.73 billion in the second quarter of 2003. That’s down 3.9 percent […]

The national pastime is getting unwired. Owners of Raley Field, home of the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats baseball team, Thursday said their stadium is now outfitted with wireless Internet access, popularly referred to as Wi-Fi , for its customers and field staff. The access points are currently installed in luxury suites and the West Sacramento, […]

A new computer language was approved as an official industry standard Thursday; one designed specifically to improve the accuracy of the semiconductor design process. Standards organization, Accellera EDA, gave the green light to the Property Specification Language (PSL) version 1.01 to “advance assertion-based verification in simulation and formal verification,” the two techniques currently used in […]

Officials at the University of Utah Thursday said its new supercomputer cluster due next month will be based on AMD Opteron processors. Code-named “Arches,” the system will be Utah’s largest scientific computer for biomedical research and will be the combined product of five clusters comprised of varying numbers of nodes and processors. The current 500-node […]

Looking to keep inboxes free of spam, QUALCOMM Thursday released the latest commercial version of its Eudora e-mail software. Version 6.0 of the program for Windows and Macintosh users now features automatic spam protection, an e-mail thread condenser, automated type formatting tools, and mailbox organizational shortcuts. The San Diego-based company said a paid mode is […]

For the second time in less than two months, Oracle held a Town Hall meeting to quell the fears of PeopleSoft shareholders who are concerned about the database giant’s hostile takeover plans. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based firm is currently offering $7.5 billion for both Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, which it fully acquired late […]

Gateway Wednesday continued to shift its core business model from a pure PC-maker to a “branded integrator.” The Poway, Calif.-based computer maker said it is eliminating 450 jobs (about 5 percent of its workforce) and closing its Hampton, Virginia manufacturing complex on Sept. 30. While Gateway said it will continue to maintain a presence in […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday said it will acquire Talking Blocks, a privately held Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services management software company based in San Francisco. Founded in 2000, Talking Blocks boasts such marquee integration partners as IBM , Microsoft and Netegrity. When the all-cash deal is complete later this month, HP said Talking Blocks products […]

Open source firm JBoss Group Tuesday aided its efforts to spread its a Java-compatible application server software with a new partnership designed to make developers’ lives less stressful. The Atlanta-based company said its customers can now take advantage of Luxembourg-based Infotectonica’s powerful Juliet code comprehension tool. Juliet is a Java tool for reading, browsing, searching […]