Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle said a federal probe into its $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft seems to be the only thing standing in the way of its goal. In a briefing with the press, Oracle Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips said approval from the U.S. Department of Justice is almost certain and subsequent […]

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 […]

In a world where machines have taken control of humanity, Palm Wednesday released a PDA that lets you control other machines. And while it’s not as sophisticated as say Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based handheld computer maker’s first upgrade to its Tungsten T — dubbed “T2” — does have some merits. Like the original […]

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 […]

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 […]

A consortium of universities and high-tech companies Tuesday formally launched a joint Internet-based test-bed platform for developing massive online services using distributed computing and overlay networks. The project, dubbed “PlanetLab” is hosted by Princeton University but is a grass roots effort currently made up of 60 different academic institutions with 160 machines at 65 sites […]

Intel Monday took the wraps off of one of its fastest desktop processors and gave a heads-up on plans for a specially designed server chip.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its latest Pentium 4 reaches speeds up to 3.2 GHz and are retailing for $637 in mass quantities. The chips are precursors to […]

Always one to point to its success, Intel Tuesday underlined its current chipmaking milestones while highlighting its future roadmap. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm said it is on track to deliver a new business-class chipset, code-named “Canterwood-ES,” this fall. The unit is designed for single processor Intel Pentium 4 based server systems and will include […]

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 […]

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, […]