The world's semiconductor market will decline 13.5 percent in 2001 with the Americas and the Asia/Pacific chip markets being hit the hardest, a new study released Monday suggestsAccording to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), the market will drop to US$176.8 billion in 2001 from $204.4 billion in 2000. This contrasts with a forecasted growth rate of 20.3 percent for 2001 during the third quarter 2000, according to the organization that represents about 90 percent of the world semiconductor industry in a statement.
Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced on Tuesday said they had ended talks over the possible merger of the two companies.
Storage vendor EMC Corp. on Tuesday said it would cut its worldwide workforce by 1,100 employees or 4 percent in an effort to cut operating expenses and deal with the current U.S. economic slowdown.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday stripped key elements out of a bill designed to curb unsolicited e-mail, or spam, and give consumers rights to take action against parties sending bulk e-mail.
Storage company Iomega on Thursday introduced its new Peerless removable storage device, a pocket-sized drive that offers between 10G bytes and 20G bytes of storage on removable cartridges.
Combining one company's focus on XML (Extensible Markup Language) application development with the other's vertical market consulting and services strengths, eXcelon Corp. and C-bridge Internet Solutions Inc. announced Wednesday that the two Massachusetts technology companies will merge.
Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) has successfully tested Lucent Technologies Inc.'s next generation fiber optic transmission technology by sending data at 40G bps (bit per second) over a distance of 72 miles (116 kilometers), the companies said in a statement Wednesday.
Cisco Systems on Tuesday is set to announce new Gigabit Ethernet products for medium-sized and large corporate customers, along with a marketing effort with Intel to promote the transmission technology often used in corporate networks, the companies said in a statement.
Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday unveiled new Gigabit Ethernet switching products and announced a marketing agreement with Intel Corp. to work to accelerate Gigabit Ethernet network deployments, the companies said.
VeriSign on Wednesday announced that it has extended its managed digital certificate services to allow smart card and other manufacturers to embed digital keys and certificates into their products.
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (NTT) group on Thursday released its fiscal year 2001 ending statement that shows its wireless unit, NTT DoCoMo Inc., helped bring the Japanese telecommunication vendor back into profitable territory.
Some of the industry's top networking and mobile telecommunication companies are throwing their weight behind the creation of Tahoe Networks Inc., a new company focused on developing a bridge between wireless networks and existing data networks and the Internet.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved plans for the .biz and .info top-level domain (TLDs) name suffixes and registration for at least one of them will start later this month, the Internet overseeing body said Tuesday.
In a joint effort to develop the best optically networked storage devices, EMC and Nortel Networks on Tuesday said they are working together to create storage networking for campus, metro and wide-area systems.
Cisco Systems on Monday announced the availability of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) capabilities for products that run the company's IOS network systems software.