SAN FRANCISCO — Privately held EDA vendor Simucad Design Automation Inc. Thursday (March 30) announced the availability of a multicore-optimized family of three-dimensional TCAD-based interconnect parasitic modeling tools.

According to Simucad (Santa Clara, Calif.), the new tools are optimized for the specific requirements of characterizing the capacitance, resistance, and/or inductance of multilevel

BANGALORE, India — India, with its huge consumer population and its intellectual capacity, is shaping up as a burgeoning market for semiconductors, according to the head of Texas Instruments Inc.

TI—the first multinational tech company to set up an R&D center in India, in 1984—will continue to commit resources to technology innovation

Microsoft Corp. is releasing new versions of its software packages for safeguarding and archiving e-mails and other corporate messages.
 
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, which was known as FrontBridge Technologies before Microsoft acquired that company, comprise of four products that can help companies do things like minimize spam and viruses and

Citigroup Inc. has set up an Internet bank that offers higher interest rates, as part of its plan to attract more online customers and reverse a decline in consumer banking profit.
 
Citibank Direct is offering a 4.5 percent yield on savings accounts, with no minimum balances required, and in some

As Apple prepares to head into its 30th year, analysts and fans alike are predicting that the company's next move will be to introduce an iPhone, a handset that would offer mobile-phone capabilities plus all of the functionality associated with the iPod. 
 
"Frankly, I would say there is a very good

In another first for the fledgling world of "on-demand" television, NBC and the sister studio of rival network ABC have teamed up to make a prime-time show of shared interest, "Scrubs," available for Internet downloads.
 
The NBC hospital comedy, produced by Disney-ABC Television Group's Touchstone Television, has been added to

Hughes Network Systems LLC unveiled a brace of new services Monday as the broadband satellite provider continued to redefine itself after selling its DirectTV satellite television business two years ago.

Drawing on its broadband capability, Hughes is staking out a position as an ISP supplier to consumers and small businesses. Hughes believes

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Capital, the venture arm of the world's No. 1 semiconductor company, has joined with venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates and Shasta Ventures to provide a total of $5 million in Series A funding to Arch Rock, a startup founded in mid-2005 to provide Internet-enabled wireless sensor network technology. Read More...   Category: Wireless Mobile

H.264 isn’t just for iTunes Music Store videos any more. More companies are looking to use Apple’s QuickTime technology to showcase their products and services and one of the major reasons is the H.264 open-standard video codec.
 
One of the biggest adopters is AccuWeather, the weather-forecasting service. AccuWeather has adopted

Sonic Software is upgrading its enterprise service buses (ESB) Monday, with the company touting what it calls the industry's only third-generation ESB.
 
Often credited for inventing the term ESB, Sonic views an ESB as providing on-ramping of services in an SOA. "The main purpose of the ESB is to really