Michael Singer

Online travel site Priceline.com known for its “name your own price” tag line said it has purchased Rentalcars.com for an undisclosed amount. Under the terms of the agreement, Priceline Monday said it is taking over the domain name and customer base of Penn Valley, Pa.-based Rentalcars.com. The site reserves cars through the major rental companies […]

Cooler than “.com” and hotter than “.us”, the re-released “.la” domain is creating a mad scramble for addresses, Baltimore-based BulkRegister said Monday. The B2B registrar is one of several companies vying for Los Angeles residents and businesses to use them in purchasing their very own .la suffix. This is the first time that a top-level […]

If the rest of the year is anything like the first five, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) says it should have no trouble reaching its double-digit estimates for the year. Based on its Global Sales Report, the San Jose, Calif.-based trade group says May marks the third in a row with good strong growth. The […]

AMD Monday released several new versions of its Opteron server processor along with a new white box partnership to distribute them. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor debuted new 800-series server chips for 4-way and 8-way servers and new 100 Series processors for 1-way servers and workstations. With the Opteron and anticipated Athlon-64 launch this year, AMD […]

Intel Monday unveiled two new server processors that are already the toast of the IT town. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant officially launched its next generation Itanium 2 processor (code-named Madison) and an improved Xeon MP chip (code-named Gallatin). The two semiconductors are targeted at mid-tier servers or as a crossover opportunity for […]

After four years of debate and negotiation, the global organization that regulates domain names Thursday said it has reached an agreement to let more groups participate in decisions affecting how the Internet is run. Marina del Rey, Calif.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Thursday created the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) through […]

Sun Microsystems this week released a new Java developer tool based on its Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), known internally as “Mantis”. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker managed to cram in 2,400 bug fixes into version 1.4.2 including stabilizing the Installer, the Virtual Machine, I/O and New I/O, JAXP, CORBA, Java IDL, […]

Integrated circuit maker Synopsys Thursday said it has acquired InnoLogic Systems for an undisclosed amount. San Jose, Calif.-based InnoLogic is a custom design verification company for semiconductors and circuits. With this acquisition, Mountain View, Calif.-based Synopsys says it will pad its Formality tool to offer an improved verification package for very complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs […]

Flash memory maker SanDisk Corp. Wednesday took steps to protect itself from a potential lawsuit from German-based semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies . Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SanDisk filed a “complaint for declaratory relief” in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The company is asking the judge to rule that it does not […]

A U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday ruled that Microsoft does not have to carry the Java programming language in its Windows operating system. The decision by the three-judge panel in Richmond, Virginia reverses lower court U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz’s “must-carry” ruling saying the penalty was in error. “Because the district court was unable to […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Corporate America is on the fast track to adopting clustering technology as a way to handle parallel processing, load balancing and fault tolerance, but most importantly, to save time and money. Already the favored tool of scientists and universities, bringing the clustering issue to Main Street companies is being discussed in […]

Looking to simplify the way that consumer electronics devices share digital music, photos and video, 17 major vendors Tuesday joined forces under an umbrella of interoperability, open standards and digital rights. Dubbed the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG), the non-profit organization will build a platform based on certain technical design guidelines. Companies will then be […]