Michael Singer

With its Duron processor lineup phasing out, AMD may be looking to a variation of its Athlon series to serve as its lower-price point chip. A recent DigiTimes.com report suggests the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker is looking at its yet to be released Athlon FX as the likely successor to Duron as volume production is […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems this week inked a deal with anti-spam software maker Brightmail to augment its Sun ONE platform. The deal announced Monday at the Burton Group Catalyst conference here includes SunTone certification for the Sun ONE Messaging Server, which the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker says runs more than 220 million […]

SAN FRANCISCO — If you thought the first 20 years of Internet networking advancements were amazing, analysts with the Burton Group say, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” The Midvale, Utah-based IT research and advisory firm, which Thursday issued its annual predictions for the year, says if current trends continue, the evolution of network technologies, products, […]

Chipmaker Rambus Thursday said it is close to launching its fastest memory processor, which it has re-branded as XDR DRAM. The Los Altos, Calif.-based company said it is also working with Japanese vendors Toshiba and Elpida on a shipping schedule starting in 2004, ramping to volume production in 2005. The chipmaker said the XDR infrastructure, […]

Passengers traveling between Montreal and Toronto will now be able to check their e-mail and conduct other Internet access functions thanks to a new wireless network installed on some Canadian trains. Intel Wednesday said it has teamed with Bell Canada and VIA Rail Canada to equip a handful of cars with wireless LANs. The four-month […]

The semiconductor industry will see an upswing in several areas in the fourth quarter of 2003, according to three separate research reports released this week. Analysts say an underlying demand and actual IC shipments are starting to converge. Because of its cyclical nature, however, the chip sector continues to be plagued by an uncertainty of […]

Hoping to improve its own Web-based provisioning architecture, Hewlett-Packard Wednesday launched a new developers program designed for building storage systems. Based on the Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S) previously known as “Bluefin”, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker says its HP SMI-S Developers Program will simplify those interoperability challenges developers sometime face like […]

SAN FRANCISCO — With a couple keystrokes, a new employee is added to a HR system at one company. But in a simultaneous message blast, that same employee gets LDAP and other accounts established at several other companies. While the technique is currently used through the wisdom of proprietary agents, adaptors and connectors, an industry […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Pushing ahead with their vision of federated network identity, Microsoft , IBM , BEA Systems , RSA Security and VeriSign Tuesday published the initial public draft of the WS-Federation specification. The platform uses XML and other Web services criteria to define mechanisms that let developers manage and establish trust relationships across companies […]

Intel Tuesday said it has inked a deal to acquire the assets of West Bay Semiconductor, based in Vancouver, Canada. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said the cash-for-assets transaction expands its portfolio of networking chips running at speeds of 2.5 Gbps and lower. Specific financial details were not disclosed. West Bay’s product line […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Fast food giant McDonald’s Tuesday continued its quest for providing wireless Internet access and took the wrapping off of its latest batch of hotspots during a launch party here. The company, which successfully opened 10 kiosks in downtown New York back in March, said it is supplying local area networks via Wi-Fi […]

IP engineering firm P-Cube Monday unveiled a new SmartStart-P2P program it says will help companies keep from freaking out any time someone mentions the phrase peer-to-peer. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company says its new venture is a regimented diet of products and services that let broadband Internet service providers (ISP) understand the impact of broadband apps, […]