Mark Hachman

Intel Corp. officials confirmed Friday that the Itanium and Xeon processors will share a common physical socket beginning in 2007. Intel had said the two architectures, which use different instruction sets, would be designed to use as many common components as possible. But Intel spokesman Scott McLaughlin said Friday that the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip […]

PHOENIX—Seagate Technology LLC will likely introduce its own branded version of its new FATA drive later this year, a product that will be uniquely designed for entry-level servers, executives said Thursday at the Storage Networking World show here. The Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives, developed jointly with Hewlett-Packard Co. and introduced earlier this week, […]

PHOENIX—Potential storage-area network customers continue to complain about interoperability, even as the first steps were taken Tuesday to simplify multivendor environments. Even as the Storage Network Industry Alliance (SNIA) unveiled the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) at the Storage Networking World Conference here on Tuesday, customers complained that not enough has been done to manage storage […]

A Florida-based WiFi startup is developing chips to enable full-duplex WiFi repeaters, a step up from the half-duplex repeaters in use today. WiDeFi Inc. of Satellite Beach, Fla., said Thursday it has raised $6.8 million in venture capital that it will use to further develop its repeater chips, which are due to enter production about […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.— A Federal Communications Commission policy-maker underlined the financial implications of voice over IP in a speech here Tuesday. For months, FCC Chairman Michael Powell has argued that the government should take a hands-off approach to VOIP, which uses the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit voice information. But if VOIP takes off, the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Executives at LongBoard Inc. said Tuesday that theyre in trials with a technology that will allow a mobile handset to roam between WiFi and cellular networks without dropping calls. LongBoards OnePhone application will be rolled out for health-care providers this summer and will gain a European carrier most likely in the fourth quarter, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Voice-over-IP services have reached the “tipping point,” executives said here Monday, shifting from international to domestic communications. Executives at the Voice On the Net show said that while users understand the advantage of IP calls that arent metered by distance, cable and especially DSL providers need to offer “naked” DSL service that allows […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—AT&T rolled out its do-it-yourself voice-over-IP service on Monday, allowing customers to add a VOIP phone to an existing broadband connection. The service includes a quasi-“presence” feature that will route calls to the appropriate phone. Initially, the CallVantage service will only provide residents of New Jersey local phone numbers to call other areas […]

Adaptec Inc. on Monday will launch a storage appliance that migrates personal backups into the SMB market. The Adaptec File Saver ESA1500 is a RAID 5 storage array that can accommodate from 1 to 4 terabytes. Adaptec said the appliance is being adopted by the Electronic Access Department of the Orange County, Fla., facilities management […]

University of San Francisco researchers are attempting to create a poor mans supercomputer cluster by linking desktop PCs and notebooks together through a conventional Ethernet network. Part social movement, part scientific effort, the “FlashMob” software is named after the short-lived social phenomenon of random people coming together for brief activities. John Witchel, a USF graduate […]