Jeff Burt

Discussions of the Internet of things (IoT) tend to revolve around systems for the home and how the technology can help people in their private lives. Cisco Systems officials are looking to steer some of the focus to how the IoT can fit in industrial environments and benefit the businesses that run them. At the […]

Video conferencing vendor Vidyo has a new CEO, naming Eran Westman to replace founder Ofer Shapiro. The company, which launched its first product in 2008, announced the executive change Feb. 4, just days after ending its fiscal 2014 on Jan. 31. Westman joined Vidyo in February 2014 as chief revenue officer after several executive stints […]

Zoom Video Communications, which introduced its first cloud-based video conferencing product two years ago, has raised $30 million in its latest round of funding. The Series C funding, announced Feb. 4, was led by Emergence Capital, and also included more money from existing investors, including former Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang and Qualcomm Ventures, […]

ARM, whose low-power mobile chip designs are found in more than 95 percent of the world’s smartphones, is introducing new processor core and graphics technologies aimed at improving the performance and power efficiency of the next generation of mobile devices. ARM officials introduced the new suite of technologies Feb. 3, saying they expect devices sporting […]

Raspberry Pi 2: Faster Processor and Windows 10 Support for Only $35 By Jeffrey Burt Raspberry Pis Far and Wide The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s computing board has given rise to a broad range of projects, from robots and homemade computers to handheld game consoles and sensors in a water tank containing an electric eel that […]

By 2019, there will be 5.2 billion people worldwide using mobile devices and 11.5 billion mobile connections, which will help drive a tenfold jump in global mobile data traffic, according to researchers with Cisco Systems. Mobile devices will be more powerful, and the growth in machine-to-machine (M2M) connections and increased access to 3G and 4G […]

Qualcomm, which may have lost Samsung as a customer for its new Snapdragon 810 premium mobile processor, is getting vocal support from an array of mobile device makers, including Microsoft, LG Electronics and Xiaomi. Qualcomm officials have released statements from a half-dozen smartphone makers that tout the Snapdragon 810’s performance, wireless connectivity and graphics capabilities. […]

Intel has made another move to become a dominant player in the Internet of things, agreeing to buy Lantiq, which makes smart home and broadband chips. The deal, announced Feb. 2, will add another piece to Intel’s growing portfolio of technologies for the booming Internet of things (IoT), and will help the chip maker expand […]

The group behind the small and simple Raspberry Pi computer is adding a more powerful processor, more memory and support for Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system in the latest model of the minicomputer. The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, announced by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is powered by a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor and […]

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is warning competitors like Salesforce.com and SAP that the software giant plans to increase its share of the booming cloud computing market. In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street Jan. 29, Hurd noted Oracle’s growth in cloud revenues in recent quarters, pointing to the company’s efforts in sales, R&D […]

The AllSeen Alliance, one of several industry groups working to develop an open framework to make it easier for devices within the Internet of things to communicate with each other, has unveiled a patent policy that’s aimed at protecting businesses that use the consortium’s code from being sued by those that contribute software to the […]

Qualcomm executives are saying that they are pleased with how well the company’s new Snapdragon 810 mobile chip is performing in the marketplace, despite the decision by a major OEM not to use the processor in its upcoming smartphone. There are more than 60 products in the pipeline—such as LG Electronics’ G Flex 2, the […]