Michael Singer

Microsoft Monday went to task in covering all of its bases when it comes to Windows CE devices. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant took the wraps off a Board Support Package (BSP) for the AMD Alchemy Solutions DBAu1500 development board for low power devices such as thin clients, handheld devices and wireless access points. While […]

Hewlett-Packard Friday said it is adding to its “Adaptive Enterprise” portfolio with the acquisition of select assets from UK-based Baltimore Technologies . The all-cash transaction includes substantially all of the SelectAccess software technology from Baltimore, which also makes UniCERT (a PKI system for authentication and digital signatures) and OmniRoot (for SSL server certificates). The company […]

Oracle Wednesday said it has to readjust its timeline a bit as part of its $6.3 billion take over bid for Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft . The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based business software maker said it is extending the deadline on its latest offer for all of the common stock of PeopleSoft to midnight Eastern on Friday, […]

The parent company of Cable giant Comcast Thursday said it has agreed to sell shopping network QVC, Inc. to Liberty Media for an estimated $7.9 billion. The deal transfers Philadelphia-based Comcast’s 57 percent controlling interest in the shopping network, its online QVC.com property as well as its subsidiaries and divisions: Q Direct, Q Records and […]

Two anti-spam bills converged in a California legislature this week and lawmakers took the one less favored by consumer groups. And that may make all the difference. Separate proposals by Calif. Sen. Debra Bowen, (D-Redondo Beach) and Sen. Kevin Murray, (D-Culver City) aim to prohibit the existence of unsolicited e-mail advertisements to your inbox for […]

Synchronization software maker Pumatech Wednesday said it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Loudfire, Inc. out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loudfire makes the LoudPC platform. The software lets allows anyone with an Internet browser or Web-enabled phone to access real-time access to e-mail and PIM (personal information management) data located in either Microsoft Outlook […]

Long before there was an Apple iTunes Music Store, there was RioPort… but no more. San Francisco-based parent company Ecast Inc. Wednesday shuttered the service that once supplied the Web sites of major retailers — including BestBuy.com, SamGoody.com and

Texas Instruments this week said it is building a new chip manufacturing plant in Richardson, Texas starting at the end of 2005. The $3 billion plant will produce advanced semiconductors on 300-millimeter (12-inch diameter) silicon wafers. This will be the second TI plant with such capability. The first being a 2-year-old fab in North Dallas. […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based 8×8, Inc. Tuesday said it has sold off its French subsidiary Centile to British investment company, Sunleigh Investments Ltd. The deal worth an estimated $1.27 million (1.1 million Euros) will include cash payments to Sunleigh through the end of the year. Centile, which is based in the French city of Sophia Antipolis, […]

Hoping to build wider support for its 64-bit processors, Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday released its AMD Core Math Library (ACML) V1.0. The new development tool was made in cooperation with The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and covers AMD’s current Opteron server chips as well as its Athlon64 desktop processors, due out this fall. The Sunnyvale, […]

Database software maker Oracle Tuesday said it will delay its legal fight with PeopleSoft after an inquiry by the federal government this week. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based firm said it has mutually agreed with the other parties in the Delaware Chancery Court litigation case originally scheduled for July 16. Discovery in the cases are expected […]

Fending off an aggressive crusade by the recording industry to sue individual file-swappers, a San Francisco-based legal group Monday launched its “Let the Music Play” campaign. The movement by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) counters the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) announcement that it will file thousands of lawsuits against individuals who use peer-to-peer (P2P) […]