SAN FRANCISCO — Structured ASIC supplier ChipX and EDA vendor Magma Design Automation Inc. have made available an RTL-to-GDSII design flow based on Magma's Blast Create SA and Blast Fusion SA implementation system to support the new CX6000 structured ASIC product line, the companies said.

The companies, each based in Santa Clara,

In the face of the growing threat of identity theft and data theft, vendors, industry groups and government agencies are scrambling to beef up security for online banks and merchants.
 
In the latest developments, the Liberty Alliance Project introduced plans on Tuesday to develop improved authentication technology. The same day,

IBM has demonstrated a group of software products and services called the Public Image Monitoring Solution (PIMS) cobbled together to corral the explosion of Web data generated by e-mails, blogs, wikis, jams, news feeds, consumer review sites and articles published daily. PIMS was designed with Nstein Technologies and Factiva.
 
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LONDON — Mobile phone technology company Qualcomm Inc. said it has entered the microprocessor industry with the development of a 1-GHz microprocessor called Scorpion intended for mobile phones. The processor was developed under an architectural license from ARM Holdings plc.
However, Qualcomm (San Diego, Calif.) did not make it clear whether the

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Green Hills Software Inc. described a secure file system that will complement its MILS (multiple independent levels of security) operating system, company officials said here on Tuesday (Nov. 8).

The Green Hills Partitioning, Journaling File System (PJFS) is the newest member of a class of file systems which

Sprint claimed Tuesday that it now has 3G cellular data coverage in 141 U.S. markets and 250 airports and that it will expand to 220 markets by early next year.

The cellular operator started its rollout of its 3G EV-DO service last summer and, at the time, was far behind the 3G

The breaking of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and this year's Live 8 concerts were voted among the most influential Internet moments of the past 10 years by organisers of the annual Webby Awards.
 
The committee that decides the awards -- the self-proclaimed Oscars of the Internet -- chose the dotcom

IBM on Tuesday unveiled the second fruit of its OEM relationship with Network Appliance: a new family of midrange NAS appliances.

Big Blue in April signed an agreement with Network Appliance in which it plans to OEM nearly every NetApp product. The first of those products, the entry-level N3700, was released in

NEC Electronics Corp. and Link A Media Devices Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to develop SoCs for next-generation perpendicular recording hard-disk drives. The first product will hit the market next summer.

NEC said it has invested $8 million in Link A Media (Santa Clara, Calif.) to become a 16.7-percent shareholder. The

Microsoft Corp. expects to sell as many as 3 million Xbox 360 consoles in the first three months after launching the newest version of its video game machine, the financial chief of the giant software company's Xbox business said on Tuesday.
 
The sales target of 2.75 million to 3 million