Michael Singer

SCO Group Monday said it has its first customer for its controversial Intellectual Property Compliance License for SCO UNIX Rights. The Lindon, Utah-based company would not disclose who exactly plopped down the $699 per CPU for the one-time run-time license in binary form, but Blake Stowell, a spokesperson with SCO, told internetnews.com it was a […]

A technology group whose goal is to standardize the way computer chips talk to each other said it has added seven big name companies and two academic institutions to its ranks. The HyperTransport Technology Consortium Monday welcomed storage vendor EMC , IBM , chipmaker LTX , Media Fusion, National Semiconductor , Network Appliance and Texas […]

Sun Microsystems Monday looked to shape its server strategy with the formation and assembly of the x86 ISV Advisory Board. An expansion of its Linux ISV Advisory Board created in January, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker says the goal is to “provide an open forum for ISV partners to give direct and honest […]

SAN FRANCISCO — If the 60s were the civil rights, Linux advocates say this generation should be about upholding digital rights. “Sadly when we should be talking about craftsmanship of Linux, we are talking about litigation,” Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik said LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 here. “That’s wasn’t the open source community that […]

Rival chipmakers Intel and Broadcom Friday said they have settled their three-year old patent dispute out of court. The two chipmakers and some of their subsidiaries have been engaged in several patent lawsuits in the federal courts as well as proceedings in the International Trade Commission. Under the settlement agreement, the two sides have dismissed […]

SAN FRANCISCO — AMD wooed the Linux faithful this week with its chipmaking prowess showing that it too can power the operating system from some of the smallest devices around to the largest and fastest ones. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company Tuesday said its Alchemy mobile processor, the Au1100 is now powering a new Linux-based PDA […]

Content management software maker Interwoven Wednesday said it will merge with iManage in a stock and cash transaction deal estimated at $171 million. The proposed merger is expected to resolve itself in the fourth quarter of this year pending government scrutiny and shareholder approval. The new company would support more than 2500 joint customers. If […]

Looking to expand its chip portfolio beyond the PC and server, AMD Wednesday said it is acquiring the Information Appliance (IA) business unit of National Semiconductor . Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed but as part of the agreement, AMD would acquire certain intellectual property and assets of the IA business unit including […]

A U.S. court Tuesday issued a ruling that may prevent Research In Motion (RIM) from selling its popular BlackBerry device in the United States and force it to pay $53 million. The case stems from a two-year-old patent lawsuit between NTP Inc. and RIM. The Virginia-based holding firm accused the PDA maker of infringing on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — IBM and SuSE Linux Tuesday say they have propelled the Linux operating system from a geek tool to a major business platform with a new security certification. The two companies announced that SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has achieved Common Criteria Security Effectiveness Award Level (EAL) 2 running on IBM eServer xSeries […]

Looking to gain developer and vendor support for its mobile chips, Intel Monday released a new batch of optimization tools. Designed for mobile phones and PDAs, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said the kits could improve power and performance of cell phone and PDA applications running on processors based on Intel XScale technology. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Red Hat Monday says it has gone on the offensive and filed a formal complaint against SCO Group in a Delaware court. SCO Group has caused a stir in the UNIX and Linux industries with claims that it has received U.S. copyright registrations for its UNIX System V and UnixWare source code. […]