Jeff Burt

BroadSoft is bolstering its unified communications capabilities through the acquisition of Leonid Systems, a longtime partner that has developed a Web portal for telecommunications service providers that run BroadSoft’s BroadWorks voice platform. BroadSoft officials announced the deal Jan. 12. No financial details were released. The company over the past several years has been expanding it […]

Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard continue to lead a global PC market that is still in a slight decline or is recovering at a slow rate, depending on the analyst report that is being looked at. Analysts with Gartner and IDC on Jan. 12 released their respective numbers on the PC space for the fourth quarter and […]

Executive shifts are continuing at Advanced Micro Devices, with three executives—including John Byrne, who was in charge of the company’s compute and graphics unit—leaving the company. AMD, the world’s second-largest PC chip maker after Intel, announced the changes Jan. 12. Byrne, who had been senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Computing and […]

Global spending on IT and communications technology by businesses and government agencies will jump over the next two years, led by the United States, according to analysts at Forrester Research. In their report—”The Global Tech Market Outlook for 2015 to 2016—Five Themes That Will Define the Tech Market”—the Forrester analysts also said that tech spending […]

Software-defined networking and network-functions virtualization have been good to Cyan, which is expecting revenue for the fourth quarter of 2014 to come in stronger than originally anticipated. Cyan officials said earlier this month that they expect revenue for the quarter to come in between $30 million and $31 million, significantly higher than the previous guidance […]

The Internet of things and wearable devices were on center stage at last week’s 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, with vendors of all sizes rolling out new products and road maps as they look to gain traction in the rapidly growing markets. Trying to rise above the din was struggling mobile company BlackBerry, which unveiled a […]

Cisco Systems at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show this week unveiled new and expanded partnerships that underscore the networking giant’s efforts to supply the infrastructure for driving everything from software-based telecommunications and smart cities to cloud video services and targeted advertising. The expanded partnership with Proximus, a Belgian telecom and IT service provider, illustrates Cisco’s […]

Michael Dell for more than a year has been adamant that PCs will continue to be central to his company’s strategy going forward, despite declines in PCs worldwide since 2011. Throughout his bid in 2013 to take his namesake company private, Michael Dell said the company would continue investing in PCs. During the Dell World […]

Sonus Networks is spending $10.1 million for the software-defined networking products from Treq Labs, a move that will enable Sonus to expand what it offers service providers and enterprises that are looking to more quickly and easily manage their networks and provision services. Sonus officials said they will combine the SDN offerings from Treq with […]

Lenovo is offering buyouts to some employees as it begins to focus on integrating Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server business into the fold. Lenovo last year spent almost $5 billion buying IBM’s low-end server business and Motorola from Google. The moves instantly made Lenovo the number-three vendor in both the global server and smartphone […]

Intel has made its share of news at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, from new 14-nanometer Broadwell chips and demonstrations of its RealSense 3D technology to a tiny module for wearable devices and spending $300 million to bring more women and minorities into the fold. Flying under the radar was the introduction of the company’s […]

Intel will invest $300 million over the next five years to fund initiatives to drive workforce diversification in the tech industry, a move that comes three months after the chip maker caught heat after getting wrapped up in the GamerGate controversy. CEO Brian Krzanich announced the plan during his keynote address Jan. 6 at the […]