Motorola, the primary backer of bankrupt satellite venture Iridium LLC, is in the process of drawing up a schedule to decommission Iridium's 66 LEO (low-earth orbit) satellites, a Motorola spokesman confirmed Thursday.
Oracle is close to having its entire software portfolio running on Linux, with last week's announcement that the company's Internet Application Server (iAS) 8i will support the open-source operating system.
Novell has announced third-quarter fiscal 2000 results indicating the software vendor still has problems with the sales side of its global operations as it struggles to restructure its business.
US database and tools vendor Informix is to lay off nearly 500 employees, a spokesman for the company confirmed Thursday.
Partners have been working on network for two years
Government proposal as expected
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has rescheduled its planned Forum 2000 event planned for next week due to the likelihood that the judge will enter his final decree in the antitrust case brought against the software giant by the U.S. government.
Chip startup Transmeta Corp. today announced it has added some powerful investors, with the closing of a round of financing valued at US$88 million. America Online Inc. (AOL), Compaq Computer Corp., Gateway 2000 Inc. and Sony Corp. are among the new corporate investors in the privately-owned chip vendor.
Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates again kicked off Fall Comdex with the opening keynote speech, this year trumpeting the reliability and scalability offered by the forthcoming Windows 2000 operating system, and emphasising the role that XML (extensible markup language) will play on the Web and in electronic commerce.
Compaq confirmed this week that the company has been served with a similar lawsuit to the one settled by Toshiba late last week relating to alleged flawed components in laptop computers.
January's planned spin-off of Palm Computing should not only enable 3Com to refocus its operations squarely on the networking technology arena, but also to evangelise the concept of intelligent networks, according to 3Com's chief executive. in an interview with Clare Haney, Eric Benhamou, chairman and chief executive officer of 3Com, talked about intelligent networks, Palm's expanding focus and one of his key concerns - the fall in research and development (R&D) investment in the US and worldwide. Benhamou also came up with a new tagline for 3Com's business going forward: 'We create e-networks for e-businesses'
Coming up with ways to get a significantly greater proportion of China's 1.2 billion population online rapidly is likely to be highly lucrative, given that only a tiny fraction, some 4 million people, are currently using the Internet. Television-centric Net portals would seem to be one answer, since there are already around 350 million television sets in China.
MyWeb Inc.com, a San Francisco-based company, is banking on such TV portals to make a big splash in the Chinese market. One of its core businesses is developing portals for TV set-top boxes. The company, originally known as Cybersource, was founded by three entrepreneurs in Singapore four years ago and first aimed at the market in Malaysia.
MyWeb launched its software in China last July and already, the vendor estimates that up to 90 per cent of all set-top boxes sold in China today include its TV portal. The TV portal itself is averaging 1 million page views a day and has 150,000 registered users, according to MyWeb.
General Instrument already has relationships with Cisco, Sony
A beta version should appear in the first half of next year, Microsoft says
Company supplies clauses from Microsoft agreement