Tom Krazit

PalmSource Inc. will enter into partnerships with IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. to create software for Web services and promote wireless e-mail for Palm OS devices, said Albert Chu, PalmSource's vice-president of business development.

By combining software with its existing chips for 802.11b wireless LANs (WLANs) and Bluetooth networks, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has found a way to limit interference between the two wireless technologies in handheld devices, it said Monday.

Intel Corp. will provide an update on its tri-gate transistor design efforts to attendees at the VLSI Symposia in Kyoto, Japan, this week. Intel has been working on tri-gate transistors for almost a year, but is moving closer to mass production of the transistor design.

Atheros Communications Inc. recently released new Wi-Fi chipsets for wireless access points and wireless chips for notebooks.

A fiber-optic cable linking North America and Ireland will be put to use as a disaster recovery and business continuity service run by Hibernia Atlantic, a startup funded by Columbia Ventures Corp. The company opened its doors for business Thursday with a demonstration of the service at its North American office in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Chip designer ARM Ltd. will add extensions to its processor core next year that incorporate hardware-based security technologies, the company said Tuesday.

Several PC vendors Wednesday released systems based on new technology from Intel Corp., including new processors and a new chipset.

Intel Corp. will unveil its newest chipset for premium desktop PCs on Wednesday, according to a source with knowledge of the company's plans.