After years of red ink, technology hardware is showing signs of recovery.
A new report by Emeryville-based information technology researcher Techtel Corp. says server sales improved in the first quarter of 2003, while sales of personal computers are still sluggish.
“The good news is that the IT sector managed to get through a challenging quarter intact,” says Michael Kelly, CEO of Techtel.
According to Techtel’s research index, the first quarter of
A move by the nation’s largest cable television company could be bad news for San Jose-based TiVo Inc., which dreams of continuing its domination of the digital video recorder (DVR) market.
Comcast Corp. of Philadelphia, the cable TV company that serves most of the Bay Area, plans to start testing a TiVo-like service this summer based on the technology of TiVo rival Ucentric Systems Inc. of Maynard, Mass.
TiVo stock
In the startup mergers-and-acquisitions market, sometimes a fierce independent streak is the easiest way to attract a mate.
When Redmond Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. wrapped its $200 million cash buyout of PlaceWare Inc. of Mountain View last week, company management and board of directors say they worked for years to be a stand-alone company; a position that ultimately attracted the world’s largest software maker.
Microsoft says it plans to use PlaceWare
The U.S. Department of Defense has a bunch of Dungeons & Dragons-playing computer geeks to thank for its collaborative computing system.
According to PlaceWare Inc.’s Web site, the company was started in 1990 by a group of engineers from Xerox PARC who developed technology to play a primitive form of interactive D&D over the Internet called multi-user dungeon.
The underlying game technology, called LambdaMOO, was used by the U.S. armed forces to
After weathering the brunt of the information technology (IT) spending downturn, the largest telecom networking hardware maker is lashing back with a slew of new products set to be unveiled over the next couple of months.
At the NetWorld/Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas April 28, San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) unveiled a new
Red Herring co-founder Tony Perkins still has the fever for the Internet and journalism
Tony Perkins has been at the forefront of Silicon Valley’s technology industry for the past 15 years. Through his work at Silicon Valley Bank and as a co-founder of the now-defunct Red Herring magazine, Perkins has consistently ridden the crest of each technology wave that washed across the valley.
His current project is a dot-com startup
A new study by research firm VentureOne of San Francisco shows not only is venture capital funding at a seven-year low, the length of time a startup has to wait between funding rounds has more than doubled in the past three years.
The over-funding of bad business models during the dot-com boom combined with a deadly-quiet initial public offering market has venture capitalists scrambling to keep from losing their
A proposed mega merger flooding the pay-TV industry has some wondering if one high-profile Silicon Valley company will be swept up in the process or left as debris in the deal’s wake.
San Jose-based digital video recorder (DVR) maker TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO) saw its share price fall by more than 15 percent to $4.49 a share April 11 after Australia’s News Corporation Ltd. said it would pay $6.6
Vision Systems International LLC (VSI) of San Jose recently won a $60.1 million contract to deliver 300 helmets for pilots of the military’s fleet of fixed-wing jet fighters. The Department of Defense believes the technology could mean the difference between a fighter pilot’s life and death in a battle situation.
After the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the
Software originally invented for 3-D video games is increasingly being adopted by strategic planners of real estate. Mountain View-based Keyhole Inc. offers a service called EarthViewer3D that allows businesses access to an Internet-based, graphics mapping system that may replace traditional maps for many purposes.
Keyhole gained attention recently when TV networks ABC and CNN used it to illustrate battle areas in the second Gulf
