Mark Hachman

Intel and a collection of other wireless component and equipment companies will announce on Tuesday an industry initiative to standardize and help push forward 802.16 broadband wireless. According to sources involved with the announcement, the standards body will be similar in nature to WECA, now called the WiFi Alliance. The Alliance, an independent body, promotes […]

Broadcom claimed it has begun shipping the first three-chip 802.11a/g hybrid chipsets, which Dell Computer will include in its line of Latitude notebooks. Although the “g” standard remains unfinished, vendors like Broadcom are satisfied that the IEEE committee has settled upon a technical implementation. Barring interference and channel limitations, an “a/g”-enabled notebook should run at […]

AMD will further separate itself from the flash business by forming FASL LLC, the evolution of its existing flash partnership with Fujitsu. FASL LLC, a new flash memory company partly owned by both companies, will begin operations in the third quarter, executives from the two companies said. By further separating itself from Fujitsu and AMD, […]

Seagate Technology has begun selling its Serial ATA-enhanced Barracuda drives at Best Buy, the first brick-and-mortar retailer to receive the new technology. While Seagate has been shipping the drives since late last year, the bulk of the companys shipments have been in parallel ATA drives. However, the industry has begun a slow shift to the […]

CyberKey has added digital-rights-management technology to its line of USB flash drives, an improvement which has attracted the attention of a major music label interested in distributing pirate-proof music. CyberKeys products are similar to the other small-form-factor USB drives made by tens of manufacturers around the world, with one difference: the manufacturer has added a […]

On Thursday, a task force of engineers began meeting in San Francisco to discuss the best methods of fighting spam. Engineers attending the meetings indicated that they prefer a comprehensive reworking of Internet systems designed to fight spam. How this will play out in the business world, however, is anybodys guess. Spam, the popular name […]

Verizon Wireless confirmed plans to roll out a 2.4 Mbit/s wireless network in two markets in the third quarter, combining mobility with broadband speeds. After testing its 1xEV-DO technology in Washington D.C. with Lucent Technologies and in San Diego with Nortel Networks, Verizon announced that it would roll the technology out to both markets in […]

Nvidia Corp. and ATI Technologies moved further ahead in the mobile graphics space, adapting their desktop graphics cores for use in notebook PCs. Nvidia shifted its GeForceFX 5200 and 5600 cores into the mobile market, improving the video core while using new power-management techniques to reduce power consumption. ATI, meanwhile, is expected to announce its […]

Hewlett-Packard this week said it will adopt 802.11 wireless silicon from Texas Instruments in a push to make its PCs easier to relocate. Although 802.11 is generally thought of as a technology to allow notebook users to roam among wired networks, HP intends to include it in commercial desktops to cut down on wiring costs […]

Advanced Micro Devices attempted to steal a march from Intel Corp.s Banias launch Wednesday by announcing the mobile Athlon XP. In all, AMD launched twelve new processors under the “Athlon XP-M” brand name. The new chips will extend AMDs reach into both the thin-and-light and full-size notebooks segment, which the company has served with the […]