Gretchen Hyman

Just in time for a predicted surge in the personal digital assistant (PDA) market over the course of 2003, Dallas-based semiconductor Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) unveiled a new chipset and concept design for a device that combines three primary networking technologies, among them Wi-Fi Internet capability. TI’s newest effort to ramp-up its wireless chipset offerings […]

While no federal legislation currently exists that outlaws unregulated spam from entering the average e-mail browser, a two-part national survey of office workers and IT professionals found that people are starting to get fed up with the continuous onslaught of junk e-mail and are strongly urging Congress to act. Some reports suggest that a quarter […]

Los Angeles cyber youth are the subject of a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department following a yearlong streak of violence at citywide cyber cafes. On Monday, Dec. 30, Los Angeles police reported a PC game-related dispute outside a cyber cafe called NetStreet in the Northridge area of the city that involved several […]

Over this past year, Global Crossing, weathered a storm of public and legal scrutiny that led to its near collapse, bankruptcy, and eventual court-ordered restructuring. But on the tail end of a year that brought the voice and data carrier tumbling from the top of the telecommunications heap, Gary Winnick, company founder and chairman of […]

Palm OS users might see the Mouseketeer more as a Scrooge. Walt Disney Co. earlier this week posted an internal memo clearly stating its company policy on personal digital assistants (PDAs), particularly as the holidays grow near and gadgetry gift giving is a strong if not inevitable likelihood for the technologically inclined. “My way or […]

Intel hit the ground running Monday by unveiling a dozen new additions to its Intel Xeon processor lineup. The new products, which include chipsets, processors, and platforms for Intel-based workstations and servers, will begin shipping by the end of the year, the company said. Gartner Dataquest is predicting that Intel’s new product releases could spark […]

As California cracks down on a 1998 consumer protection law against e-mail spam, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of an e-mail marketing company. Seeking a maximum of $2 million in civil penalties for violating state law that protects residents from unsolicited e-mail, Lockyer filed suit in […]

LOS ANGELES — The Ninth Annual Internet World Spring kicked off Wednesday with keynote Jocelyn Attal, vice president of marketing for WebSphere, IBM’s Web services unit for deploying and integrating e-business applications. To a packed room, although downsized considerably from last year, Attal sketched out the basic concepts underlying Web services and what IBM has […]