Michael R. Zimmerman

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused. Focused on the future. And that future is a 64-bit world in which everything from portable PCs to servers to networking gear is powered by AMD Opteron or Athlon processors. To do it, the Sunnyvale, Calif., semiconductor manufacturer has been steadfastly signing up OEMs to build Opteron servers—the latest […]

NEW YORK—Bill Gates and IBM Software chief Steve Mills joined together here today to give an update on their companies combined work in advancing Web services. In an intimate setting at the St. Regis Hotel, Gates, Microsoft Corp.s chief software architect and chairman, and Mills, IBM Software Groups senior vice president and general manager, demonstrated […]

BOSTON—The USA Patriot Act was signed into law in October of 2001, but you wouldnt know it by listening to John Ashcroft. The U.S. Attorney General was here today as part of his multi-city road show ostensibly to drum up support for the Act, which was whisked into law nearly two years ago with extremely […]

When the National Football Leagues Seattle Seahawks team was looking for ways to improve the ticket holders experience in its spanking-new Seahawk Stadium last year, it turned to technology, specifically tablet computers with wireless Internet access. But rather than using the machines to improve the efficiency of some nontechnical process or bolster communications, the tablets […]

NEW YORK—MCI may be in the midst of a major executive house cleaning, and it may be diligently adhering to the financial rules imposed on it by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, but you wouldnt have known the company was in any corporate distress from hearing company CEO Michael Capellas speak at the inaugural CeBIT America […]

Copier and printer giant Xerox Corp. is working hard to evolve with the rolling economy through technology, products and people—and in that order. Two years ago the Stamford, Conn., company placed a big bet on color copying and printing and attacked the market with a handful of super fast products. And the move is paying […]

NEW YORK—Xerox Corp. this morning fine-tuned its vast array of digital copiers and multifunction printers under a new branding umbrella, expanded its office services and released a handful of new products, all in an effort to better serve the office customer. To a customer-packed auditorium at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square here, Xerox officials […]

NEW YORK—On this cold and drizzly Manhattan morning Advanced Micro Devices Inc. got a warmer reception for its brand new than anyone had expected: a hardware endorsement from IBM. From the time AMD began discussing its x86 64-bit “Hammer” architecture ideas, industry observers and IT administrators said that for the chip to succeed, it would […]

A small Seattle company that made a name for itself with an easy-to-use central operating system for managing stadium lighting and sound has morphed that technology into a network management integration system. Singlestep Technologies Corp. officially rolled out its Unity system last week. Unity pools network and device data from disparate network management systems into […]

IBM is developing new technologies and software that it says will improve operational efficiency by reducing system downtime and simplifying management. Officials from the companys Personal Systems Group last week at Comdex here said the Somers, N.Y., division hopes to launch by next fall several applications under its new ThinkVantage Technologies umbrella that ease management […]

LAS VEGAS—It may not be as crowded as years past, but that didnt slow hardware vendors and software developers here at Comdex 2002 from pumping out new products. One technology that garnered a lot of attention this first day of the annual tech fest was flat panel desktop displays. BenQ Inc., CTX International Inc. and […]

LAS VEGAS—It was apropos that on a cool, sunny Tuesday morning here, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. President and CEO Hector de Ruiz would treat Comdex 2002 attendees to an equally cool keynote address, one that ended with guitarist Slash joining Ruiz on stage for a stirring version of Dylans “Knocking On Heavens Door.” But, in […]