Michael Singer

With Web searches dominating the majority of Internet traffic, if you want to know how to float to the top of a directory, you gotta listen to SearchEngine Watch founder Danny Sullivan. Sullivan and company are in San Jose, Calif. starting Monday for the Search Engine Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo. The four-day event (August […]

Dell Thursday said boisterous sales of its PCs, servers and storage units helped it boost the company’s overall global market-share and give it a good quarterly financial report card. “I will certainly tell you that there is increased optimism among CEOs and large companies, but I don’t really want to characterize it too strongly,” CEO […]

A massive power outage unexpectedly darkened New York as well as other Northeast cities including Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit and Cleveland. Jupitermedia offices in Washington DC and Boston reported no power problems. The blackout, which hit at 4:15 p.m. local time late Thursday, shut down offices, subways, municipalities and airports including JFK, Newark Airport and LaGuardia. […]

Hewlett-Packard Thursday said recovered more than $1.8 million as part of its civil lawsuit against S-Systems and its owner, Leroy Anthony Sallee. Sallee recently pleaded guilty to federal charges for his participation in what prosecutors say was a scheme to fraudulently acquire computer equipment at substantial discounts and then resell the products on the “gray […]

The U.S. Department of Energy Thursday said it is building two separate large-scale Linux clusters using more than 3,300 AMD Opteron processors. Dubbed “Lightning” and “Orange,” the clusters will be installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in October to support the DOE’s computer projects in medical, environmental and national defense modeling and simulation. Both clusters […]

Two Silicon Valley-based chipmakers Wednesday said they have put aside their differences and settled all of their outstanding lawsuits against each other. Austin, Texas-based Cirrus Logic and Santa Clara-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA said they have agreed to mutual terms and have signed a cross-license agreement. In May 2003, Cirrus Logic brought suit against NVIDIA […]

Hoping to build momentum for its operating system, Lindows.com Wednesday initiated its first official Consultants Program. The San Diego-based software vendor said it is using the talents of independent technical experts in LindowsOS, to offer their expertise to homes, businesses and schools, informing them how to set-up, use and maintain the LindowsOS product line. Consultants […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday said it is extending its multi-billion dollar OEM and technology relationship with Tokyo-based Hitachi until 2008. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said the hardware deal includes continued production of HP’s high-end StorageWorks XP family including the development of its next-generation StorageWorks Disk Array XP family. The relationship started back in […]

PeopleSoft Tuesday said it has amended its lawsuit against Oracle hoping to prevent a hostile takeover by the software giant. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based Internet business software maker filed papers in California Superior Court in Alameda County saying it has “extensive new facts” that Oracle management’s participated in unfair trade practices, including its efforts to disrupt […]

AMD Tuesday officially launched a new logo program designed to identify its 64-bit computer processors on PCs and servers in the same way its rival branded the phrase “Intel Inside.” The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said its AMD64 Logo Program is also an attempt at mainstream branding x86-64 chips and defining a new class of computing […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday threw its corporate weight behind an organization developing a Java-powered database and storage technology. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said it has joined JDOCentral.com as a charter member to support the JDO standard also known as specification request JSR-012. The standard describes a Java API to manage data in a […]

Looking to spread its wireless world into Asia, QUALCOMM Monday said it has signed a partnership to bring its BREW platform into Taiwan. The San Diego-based wireless giant signed a non- binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications (APBW), the first operator in the region to commercialize 3G services using CDMA2000 […]