Jeff Burt

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich promised when he took the reins of the company almost two years ago that the giant chip maker would not miss out on new industry trends the way it did with mobile computing when smartphones and tablets hit the market several years ago. Under Krzanich, Intel has aggressively expanded its capabilities […]

Over the next few years, Samsung will ramp up its already aggressive efforts in the booming Internet of things, ensuring that within five years all of its hardware will be able to connect to the Internet and investing $100 million this year in its developer program. The game plan was mapped out Jan. 5 by […]

Lenovo is using the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show to not only show why it is the world’s largest PC vendor, but also to underscore its efforts to become a larger player in other computing realms, including smartphones and wearable devices. The company on Jan. 4 unveiled its latest ThinkPads and then followed that on Jan. […]

The AllSeen Alliance is unveiling a technology that will enable users to connect to and manage their AllJoyn-enabled smart devices from external networks or cloud-based services. The year-old consortium, which is developing a framework based on the AllJoyn code that will make it easier for connected devices and systems in the Internet of things (IoT) […]

Qualcomm is partnering with smart-lighting technology vendor Lifx to create a smart-lighting platform and an LED bulb design based on the AllJoyn code being developed by the AllSeen Alliance. Officials with Qualcomm’s Atheros subsidiary announced the WiFi-based smart lighting platform Jan. 5 at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, an event […]

Nvidia officials came to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show and showed off technology that they hope will drive the company’s technology deeper into the automotive world. At his keynote session in Las Vegas Jan. 4, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the Tegra X1, a mobile chip that he said essentially puts the power of a […]

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its lineup of small PCs as it looks to push back at the growing popularity of Chromebooks with a pair of low-cost, energy-efficient micro systems that run Microsoft’s Windows OS. At the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Jan. 5 in Las Vegas, the tech giant unveiled the Pavilion Mini Desktop and […]

Intel is launching the latest generation of its processors for everything from traditional notebooks to mini PCs, two-in-one systems and the increasingly popular Chromebooks, as well as the growing number of devices in the Internet of things. The chip maker on Jan. 5 announced the 14-nanometer 5th Generation Intel Core “Broadwell-U” family of processors, which […]

The vendors behind a 3-month-old open-source effort around network-functions virtualization (NFV) are beginning to lay out the direction the new group is taking as it rolls into 2015. In a recent post on the organization’s blog, Chris Price, chairman of the technical steering committee (TSC) for the Open Platform for NFV Project (OPNFV), said the […]

It was a year ago that Barry Evans was abruptly closing the doors of Calxeda, the company he founded in 2008 and a pioneer in developing low-power ARM-based chips for use in servers for scale-out data center environments. Calxeda already had 32-bit systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) on the market and a fabric technology designed for highly dense, […]

Cisco Systems officials are asking U.S. regulators to block rival Arista Networks from selling particular products that the giant networking vendor claims infringe on its patents. In a post on the company blog Dec. 19, Mark Chandler, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Cisco, said the company is asking the International Trade Commission […]

Intel over the past 18 months or so has made inroads into a Chromebook market that continues to grow as more content is put into the cloud. Now the giant chip maker wants to make it easier for customers to migrate data and files from their mobile devices or PCs onto their Intel-powered Chromebooks. Intel […]