Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — After years of working with code-named chipsets and bundling the processors on a new platform, Intel Corp. Wednesday officially took the wraps of its latest Centrino technology. The chipset allows for wireless Internet access on laptop PCs. Throughout a day-long launch event in Manhattan, the world’s largest maker of microprocessors is showcasing […]

Telco networking company Lucent Technologies has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding a probe over how it booked revenues as troubles in the telecom industry were surfacing. The Murray Hill, N.J.-based company said it reached an agreement in principle with the staff of the SEC and admitted no wrongdoing as a […]

The US Attorney’s office in New York has charged 17 suspects with a tax and identity fraud scheme that allegedly netted more than $7 million in fraudulent tax returns. Federal officials said they were searching for two more suspects allegedly involved with the scheme that involved a tax preparer, pilfered social security numbers and electronic […]

NEW YORK — The chief technology officer of the largest distributor of the Linux open source operating system urged developers to curb their enthusiasm about Linux’s surge in popularity in enterprise systems. “Instead of getting serious about Linux, get serious about architecture,” said Michael Tiemann, the CTO of Red Hat during a keynote address at […]

JP Morgan Chase has finalized its largest-ever contract, a seven-year outsourcing agreement with IBM worth in excess of $5 billion, the commercial/investment bank announced Monday. The deal also ranks as IBM’s largest outsourcing agreement, eclipsing its seven-year, $4 billion outsourcing arrangement with American Express. Perhaps more important for IBM, the contract with JP Morgan Chase […]

Tech analysts call application acceleration the missing link in the ongoing bugbear of slow-loading Web sites, and predict even more bottlenecks as enterprise networks prepare to distribute even more applications over the Internet. Application acceleration? It’s the latest evolution of dynamic caching, which refers to the process of offloading information requests between servers in order […]

A forgotten job listings category is taking center stage, as the professional and salaried job listings segment reaches maturity. During the mid-1990s and the rise of the Web, skilled labor and hourly-wage jobs did not always rank among the strongest categories for online job listings. Prompted by research data that showed just a trickling of […]

Calling all technology and science experts. Uncle Sam is looking for volunteers for a new IT National Guard that will be established by the landmark legislation package that creates the Department of Homeland Security. President Bush is expected to sign the bill into law today. The Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act, or NET Guard […]

IBM is putting more money and muscle where its mouth is regarding its on-demand computing strategy by creating a new research division called On Demand Innovation Services. It plans to shift $1 billion in investment to the new division over the next three years. The new services arm is to be located within IBM’s research […]

NEW YORK — America Online’s mix of music, lights and member-driven pronouncements for the release of AOL 8.0 hit a crescendo Tuesday when the ISP’s chief executive just said no to pop-up ads. “Starting today, AOL will no longer sell pop-up advertisements,” AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller told an audience at the Lincoln Center for […]