Michael Singer

Intel announced improvements to its Wireless MMX2 technology to inspire the next generation of wireless multimedia handsets, the company said this week. The second generation of instruction sets for PCs and other devices will be available in future Intel XScale PXA series ARM-based architecture processors. The technology will also support 64-bit applications through Single Instruction […]

For the first time in its history, HP is looking at nanotechnology to solve its future computing needs. After 40-years of relying on silicon and Moore’s Law to define its computers and printers, the company has now fully embarked on a sub-micron path it says will carry it through the next 40 or so years. […]

While SAP and Oracle fight over who has the cash to acquire Retek , the retail industry is stuck with the bill for now, according to research published this week. Analysts at AMR Research suggest that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market leaders SAP and Oracle have such vastly different approaches to product integration and […]

Sun Microsystems is setting the stage for its next phase of IP services and blade servers with some key partnerships. The company said it is teaming up with network middleware providers jNetX and Open Cloud to help launch Sun’s new IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services. Sun said it is marketing the platform to service providers […]

HP is looking to unify its connections between server and storage devices with standardized technologies, the company said. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said it is trying to differentiate itself from competitors like IBM, EMC and Sun through by unifying Smart Array serial controllers, storage enclosure (MSA), HP ProLiant servers, and with […]

Voice over IP (VoIP) promises to radically change the way companies do business, but one side effect of less expensive communications threatens to give the whole ecosystem a black eye. Overseas telemarketers are quickly learning that they can use IP voice calls to “dial for dollars,” getting around both traditional long-distance cost constraints and U.S. […]

Intel is giving game developers new weapons as it fleshes out its multi-core and multi-threaded strategy. Following the message by Intel executives that, “the transition is underway,” the company expanded seeding of its dual-core-based software development platforms this week as part of the Intel Software and Solutions Group’s Early Access Program. Game developers Epic Games […]

The heat is on for software provider Retek to make a decision about the future of its business. The Minnesota-based company is in the unlikely position of having the top two ERP market leaders SAP and Oracle fawn over its $174 million in annual revenue and products that serve the retail industry. SAP’s initial $496 […]

Operators have a $200 billion opportunity staring them in the face, but only if they use mobile Voice over IP to rethink their end-user services and networks, according to one research firm. According to an upcoming report by Pyramid Research titled “The Future of Mobile Voice,” voice over wireless LAN and convergence technologies are the […]

AMD is upping the mobile ante in its chip battle against Intel’s Centrino processors. The No. 2 chipmaker began shipping its single-core, low-power, 64-bit processor family named Turion today in coordination with the start of the CeBIT show in New York this week. AMD said the chips should start appearing in thin-and-light notebooks and Tablet […]

HP extended its support contract with AOL for another three years, the companies said today. The agreement is an expansion of AOL’s existing one-year services contract with HP but does not include any outsourcing support. The two companies have been partners for 10 years, but the new deal covers AOL’s U.S. data hubs in Northern […]

Once a business storage tool, Flash drives are becoming the profit-maker of choice for digital music player manufacturers like Sony and Apple . And they have the enterprise reeling over their storage ability. One only has to look as far as the latest generations of the Walkman and iPod shuffle to see the phenomenon in […]