Michael Singer

Checking into a hotel anytime soon? There are more than 400 new locations to choose from thanks to separate announcements Tuesday from Wi-Fi purveyors Boingo Wireless and Wayport. As part of their roaming agreement Boingo said it will implement its system into all of Salt Lake City-based STSN’s wireless high-speed data connections. The partnership covers […]

Looking to add more capacity to next generation mobile devices, QUALCOMM Tuesday inked a deal with flash memory card maker SanDisk . As part of the agreement, San Diego-based QUALCOMM said it will support removable miniSD and SD cards in its Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipset family beginning with the MSM6100 and expanding to the […]

The FreeBSD Foundation Monday reiterated its backing of the Java operating environment and released a binary distribution of the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.3.1. The group (sometimes referred to as “beasties”) says Java users can download the FreeBSD Foundation’s Java distribution for free. The Foundation is also providing OEM licenses to FreeBSD distributors, permitting […]

In a show of support for “plug and play,” STMicroelectronics Monday said it has joined Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) as a governing member. Portland, Ore.-based OCP-IP is a non-profit industry association that wants to make a common standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate “plug and play” system-on-chip (SoC) design. […]

AMD is going to some pretty great lengths to make sure people get excited about its upcoming 64-bit desktop chips. Case in point, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker Monday launched a promotional contest highlighting its Athlon 64 Processor — scheduled for worldwide release September 23. The company’s so-called “High-Tech Treasure Hunt is a virtual geocaching […]

Sun Microsystems Monday said it has renewed its storage partnership with Hitachi’s Data System subsidiary in an attempt to grow Sun’s market share and its computing-on-demand platform — N1. The deal means the original agreement, signed in August 2001 by the two companies, is now extended through 2006. The partnership is a dig at offerings […]

A patent lawsuit against Palm and 3Com was overturned Wednesday after a U.S. court of appeals in Washington was asked to extend the definition of “credit-card sized device” to include handheld devices and PDAs. The case stems from a February 2000 patent lawsuit filed by McLean, Va.-based E-Pass Technologies against Palm and 3Com. A California […]

Intel says its semiconductor business overall is performing better than it expected. So much so, the company surprised investors Friday with a sales forecast two weeks ahead of its scheduled Mid-quarter update. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said it now expects third-quarter revenue to be between $7.3 billion and $7.8 billion. The company […]

Perhaps no other Web server software company has had such an impact on the industry in such a short amount of time as JBoss Group. Back in 1999, founder and CEO Marc Fleury assembled a team of developers to create an open source Java-based application server. With an average of 250,000 downloads per month, JBoss […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As Yahoo! slowly but surely crawls back into its roll as an enhanced search provider; the company reaffirmed its plans Thursday to make its search capabilities extremely visible throughout the portal. Speaking at the Search Engine Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo here, Jeff Weiner, the company’s so-called search czar, says the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the battle for eyeballs on the Net, no one technology has had more of an impact as Flash, the animated Web design program from Macromedia . But after a glut of cartoon-ish sites that forced surfers to skip intros, developers have had to look at other ways of capturing viewers […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The debate over contextual advertising took a nasty turn Wednesday as researchers picked apart the latest moneymaking strategies by major search engine players Google, Overture and Primedia property Sprinks. The rivals put their best foot forward hoping to attract a room full of buyers at the Search Engine Strategies 2003 Conference […]