Michael Singer

Reading its tealeaves and casting its runes, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Wednesday predicted there will be phenomenal growth in chip sales in the next three years. Based mostly on memory chip sales, the San Jose, Calif.-based group is projecting 16.8 percent growth for 2004. After that, SIA president George Scalise says worldwide sales of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Wednesday said it has signed 11th hour deals with Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer to keep Java running on PCs despite Microsoft’s attempts at killing it off. According to Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, the two traditional allies of Microsoft will continue to ship the Java runtime environment as part of their […]

Linux server and software maker Penguin Computing Tuesday signed paperwork saying it will acquire privately held Scyld Computing, best known for developing Beowulf high-performance clustering software. Under the terms of the agreement, San Francisco-based Penguin will issue shares of its stock in exchange for all of the outstanding securities of Annapolis, MD-based Scyld. Sam Ockman, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Tuesday launched its most aggressive campaign to put its Java programming language in the public consciousness. Speaking at the Java ONE conference here, the network computer maker said it would try to unify the various flavors of Java under one brand complete with an updated logo that will identify PCs, […]

What if you could turn computers on and off as quickly as a light switch without having to wait for software to “boot up”? Sound like science fiction? Researchers at IBM and German-based Infineon Technologies AG don’t think so. The two companies Monday highlighted their advances on Magnetic (or Magnetoresistive) Random Access Memory (MRAM). The […]

NEC Electronics Monday took the wraps off of a new series of 90-nannometer chips designed for the communication and networking sector. Based on its Instant Silicon Solution Platform (ISSP), the next generation ISSP2 series of structured ASICs offers up to 4 million usable ASIC gates, 10 Mb of embedded configurable memory, and speeds of up […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Seeing the future in smartphones and other mobile devices, Sun Microsystems Monday said it will tweak its Java platform to run specifically on devices using Intel XScale processors. Intel already has a less-optimized version of Java on its products. The new contract calls for Sun to license about 60 different versions of […]

BEA Monday said it is ready to retake the J2EE crown away from IBM and it will do it by to making Java development easier for all types of developers – not just J2EE experts. Since losing the title of “Java application server software” leader recently, the brains behind BEA have been focusing on its […]

Spreading the message of Web services and interoperability, three major companies Thursday opened a resource center outside of Nice, France designed to help companies with their .NET adoption. Jointly staffed and funded by Hewlett-Packard , Siebel Systems and Microsoft the goal is to nudge existing and potential HP customers towards its ProLiant servers running Siebel […]

Business software maker Corel Friday said it will sell off its business to its largest investor, Vector Capital in a cash deal worth approximately, USD$96 million. Best known for its WordPerfect and CorelDraw word processing and graphics packages, the Ottawa, Canada-based company said its board of directors has approved the sale and would send it […]

Call it “The Sound of One Palm Clapping”, or “Palm and Handspring go Hand in Hand.” Whatever you call it, when Palm said it would buy its rival Handspring this week, it marked a definite shift in the PDA-wireless convergence space. But analysts say it also shows that the two companies needed each other’s know-how […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If business is going to get serious about Linux, it will have to understand where it can and cannot fit into the software stack. Such is the message behind this year’s Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2003 here. The three-day gathering sponsored by Jupitermedia , parent company of this Web […]