Mark Hachman

Cornice Inc., manufacturer of the 1-inch drive known as the Cornice Storage Element, announced that it has received an additional $51 million in funding. The additional funding brings the total capital invested in the company to $81 million. The companys new capital comes from Cornices existing investors—CIBC Capital Partners, Nokia Venture Partners and VantagePoint Venture […]

Improved performance, new applications and new bug fixes highlight the changes in Version 3.2 of the KDE Projects KDE desktop software for Linux, which KDE released Tuesday. The release, available for free download at KDEs Web site, has been the default user interface for several Linux distributions, including SuSE Linux, Knoppix, Lindows and Mandrake Linux. […]

The HyperTransport Technology Consortium next Monday will announce Version 2.0 of the HyperTransport I/O specification, sources close to the group said. The next-generation, high-bandwidth interconnect will provide higher performance as well as the means to map to the PCI Express interface. Version 2.0 will increase the aggregate throughput approximately 75 percent, from 12.8GB per second […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Wireless e-commerce took two steps ahead on Monday, paving the way for improved digital rights management on mobile devices. The Open Mobile Alliance, whose diverse membership encompasses a significant portion of the wireless industry, announced an “enabler release” of its second-generation DRM specification on here Monday. While not absolutely final, the document will […]

Intel Corp. formally launched its next-generation “Prescott” microprocessor on Sunday, providing slight performance increases over the previous Pentium 4. Intel executives also declined to put to rest rumors of Prescotts 64-bit capabilities. As previously indicated, Prescott will ship in 3.2GHz, 3.0GHz and 2.8GHz speed grades beginning on Monday, with supplies of the 3.4GHz low enough […]

Despite the hubbub surrounding 64-bit computing in the market, Intel Corp. will assert that the world still operates on 32-bit cores with the Monday launch of its code-name “Prescott” processor. OEMs on Thursday reported that Intel the next-generation Pentium architecture will be pitched as a 32-bit chip and not a bridge to 64-bit computing. Intels […]

Adaptec Inc. on Wednesday, announced several new storage products aimed at helping enterprises shift toward cost-effective fabric-attached storage networks. The Milpitas, Calif. company announced an external iSCSI-to-Serial ATA storage array; a Fibre Channel-to-Serial ATA RAID storage system and accompanying enclosure, as well as a pair of 8- and 16-port RAID cards. The Adaptec iSA1500 iSCSI […]

Storage vendor Adaptec Inc. agreed to acquire Elipsan Ltd. Monday afternoon for an undisclosed amount, part of Adaptecs push into enterprise storage area networking. At the same time, the company reported a $3 million loss for its latest fiscal quarter. Elipsan, a Bristol, U.K.-based designer of storage-virtualization software, represents the next step for Adaptec in […]

Has stability returned to the disk-drive market? For the most part, according to analysts, but they warn that companies like Seagate and other storage manufacturers still show tendencies to stuff the reseller channel when times get tight. Seagate Technology LLC , Maxtor Corp. and Western Digital Corp. all reported earnings this week, and all three […]

Although Maxtor Corp. reported both increased sales and revenue compared with a year ago, company executives said channel resellers apparently held onto inventory to negotiate better deals. During a conference call Wednesday, Maxtor executives stopped short of accusing its resellers of any impropriety and did not name specific firms. But company executives said their tests […]