- Fri Oct 1 2004 Paul Allen funds wireless chip start-up
Ember, a start-up developing chips for ZigBee, gets money from Paul Allen's venture fund. Bob Metcalfe comes aboard as chairman.
Posted by Graeme Wearden
- Wed Apr 30 2008 3Com's new chief to be based in China
Network equipment maker CEO Bob Mao, who speaks fluent English and Mandarin, will be based in China, signifying the company's commitment to the Chinese market.
Posted by Marguerite Reardon
- Wed Oct 4 2006 Supercomputer start-up nets $21 million
SiCortex investment will go toward development and marketing of Linux cluster machines; debut is set for November.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Wed Apr 16 2008 Photos: MIT Energy Conference talks money, coal, and 'Enertech'
The third MIT Energy Conference attracts heavyweights in energy, while nurturing green-tech start-ups and students.
- Tue Dec 12 2006 Ex-Cray supercomputing exec on SiCortex board
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Aug 20 2009 At Singularity U., big brains meet the future
During nine weeks at NASA Ames, an elite class of 40 is given access to thought leaders as it envisions tech to address real world needs, such as car sharing.
Posted by Daniel Terdiman
- Thu Dec 28 2000 For 2001, futurists are being a bit on the shy side
Nervous about going out on a gloom-and-doom limb like they did in 2000, many would-be fortune-tellers have dramatically scaled back their predictions for 2001.
Posted by Rachel Konrad
- Fri Dec 20 1996 Apple acquires Next, Jobs
In a stunning move, Apple will purchase Next Software and bring former CEO Steve Jobs back to the company he cofounded.
Posted by Jeff Pelline and Mike Yamamoto
- Thu Aug 8 1996 AOL mystery explained
America Online, struggling to recover from the worst commercial online outage in history, explained to its six million customers the combination of human and technical snarls that caused an 19 hour outage yesterday.
Posted by Jeff Pelline and Janet Kornblum
- Thu Aug 8 1996 AOL back online--a day late
Six million America Online customers were locked out of cyberspace for at least 19 hours in one of the worst outages in online history.
Posted by CNET News.com Staff
