Michael Singer

Despite momentum with its Centrino strategy, analysts say Intel’s next generation Pentium M processor may have a tougher time in the marketplace. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant is expected to celebrate the first birthday of its Intel Centrino mobile technology and launch a new microprocessor code-named “Dothan” on May 10. Dothan is Intel’s […]

A year after AMD officially unleashed its 64-bit Opteron processor, the system continues to make waves in server rooms across the world, as well as competitors’ boardrooms. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker is expected to expand Opteron’s horizons as part of a New York reunion party Thursday with some of its original partners and some […]

HP said it is seeing a shift in the way CIOs are handling their IT departments, one that empowers network administrators and points to consolidation as an on-ramp to virtualization. Whereas traditional applications were separated into distinct silos, such customer relationship management and Web services, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based systems vendor said it is approaching […]

HP launched its new 4-way ProLiant DL585 server (USD$8,299) Monday, the first server system based on AMD’s Opteron processor since HP agreed to include AMD’s chips on its systems.HP also announced its new LC 3000 series based on the ProLiant DL145 server (USD$67,829). The company said its latest high performance computing (HPC) and clustering package […]

Intel beefed up its mobile lineup Monday with the launch of its PXA27x family of processors, formerly code-named “Bulverde.” The Santa Clara, Calif., chip making giant said the chips handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access including 3G, GSM/GPRS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Bluetooth technologies. Also, the chips are the first in the XScale family to […]

Intel Monday released two new Itanium 2 processors designed to fit in entry-level systems and compete with RISC-based chips. But the 1.60 gigahertz and 1.40GHz — both with 3MB or L3-cache — also mark another step in the company’s plans to blur the lines between Itanium and Xeon. Intel’s two server architectures make up some […]

Microsoft took the wraps off a preview of the next level of its Windows operating environment for non-PC devices Monday. The company announced its Technology Preview Kit for Windows CE 5.0. The OS is designed to give small-footprint devices such as PDAs, digital cameras, printers, scanners and retail point-of-sale terminals the same graphics and multimedia […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has officially launched Speech Server 2004 — its first standalone speech recognition platform that reflects a decade of development. The software, steeped in the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) specification and XML , combines Web technologies and speech-processing services. The company said its Speech Server also lets companies unify their Web […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Seeing a need to compete more with the open source movement, Microsoft has been broadening the horizons of its Shared Source Initiative. The Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor is wooing open source advocates as part of the Open Source Business Conference 2004 here this week. Microsoft is a gold sponsor of the OSBC, […]

UPDATE: After twenty years at the helm of Dell Computer , Michael Dell is stepping aside to make room for Kevin Rollins as the new chief executive officer. The announcement came during Dell’s board of directors meeting, which is taking place in New York. The company said the board appointed Mr. Rollins CEO, which will […]