Jeff Burt

Intel is bringing the full weight of its product portfolio in its efforts to become the primary technology provider for the rapidly growing Internet of things. The giant chip maker is packaging an expanding range of capabilities—not only its silicon technologies, but also its software offerings and other hardware products—to create the Intel IoT Platform, […]

Oracle wants to make it easier for communications service providers to more easily spin out cloud-based communications and collaboration services to their customers. The software giant earlier this month unveiled the latest iteration of its Oracle Communications Unified Communications (UC) Suite, which includes integration with the company’s Communications WebRTC Session Controller. The integration with the […]

Intel, one of the founding members of the OpenDaylight Project, is increasing its commitment to the software-defined networking standards body. Intel is joining such tech vendors as IBM, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks as a Platinum member of OpenDaylight, a move that increases the chip maker’s financial backing of the group and includes […]

Freescale early next year will begin selling a 15-watt wireless charging platform that will enable users to more quickly recharge larger computing devices like tablets and notebooks, which company officials say will help the industry meet a growing demand as more similar sized products are coming to market. The semiconductor vendor is announcing the system […]

Intel’s name is again surfacing in connection with a luxury wearable computing device, this time a smartwatch from Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer. Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider reported that TAG Heuer and Intel could unveil the new device as early as the upcoming 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which starts Jan. 5 in Las […]

Cisco Systems is suing 10-year-old rival Arista Networks—a company founded by several ex-Cisco employees—for alleged copyright violations of a broad range of Cisco products and patents. Cisco on Dec. 5 filed two lawsuits in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that Arista is using 12 Cisco features covered by 14 […]

Huawei and Red Hat are partnering to leverage the OpenStack cloud orchestration stack to create network-functions virtualization solutions for communications service providers. The two vendors want to combine Huawei’s expertise with telecommunications companies with Red Hat’s open-source and OpenStack capabilities to help service providers embrace OpenStack as they adopt network-functions virtualization (NFV) in their infrastructures. […]

Broadcom officials are continuing to build out the company’s platform for the Internet of things, adding a chip that includes dual-band WiFi capabilities and integrating NFC technology into its software development kit. The moves add to the offerings in Broadcom’s Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) platform for the Internet of things (IoT) and […]

Intel will invest another $1.6 billion over the next 15 years to upgrade a chip plant in China, the latest move by the company to expand its mobile computing capabilities and to gain further inroads into the important Chinese market. Intel executives said the company will upgrade its chip fabrication site in Chengdu, China, a […]

Cisco Systems and IBM are partnering on a new integrated data center solution that enables the networking giant to grow its converged systems portfolio and gets Big Blue back into the industry-standard server space after it sold its x86 systems business to Lenovo. The two tech vendors on Dec. 4 introduced VersaStack, a solution that […]

Juniper Networks is unveiling a new switch that offers an open design and the vendor’s networking operating system that is aimed at large cloud environments where organizations want to move away from complex hardware and more easily embrace such trends as software-defined networking. Juniper built the cloud-optimized OCX1100 switch in line with designs from the […]

LifeSize Communications is enabling customers to access video conferences via Internet Explorer, one of several enhancements the company is making to the cloud conferencing services it rolled out earlier this year. Taking LifeSize’s video conferencing capabilities to the cloud was a key initiative for Craig Malloy when he returned to the company as CEO in […]