Jeff Burt

Intel Wearable Competition Down to Final 10 By Jeffrey Burt Keeping the Mother-Child Bond Developers Raphael PM Lang and Camilo Anabalon created a bionic mattress designed to keep mothers linked with babies who are in incubation environments in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The device delivers haptic information—the sense of touch via forces or […]

Freescale officials showed off how the semiconductor company is extending its reach with new offerings that cover the burgeoning worlds of software-defined networking, edge computing and the Internet of things. The company on Oct. 21 introduced its new quad-core QorIQ LS1043A communications processor, an ARM-based 64-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) that is designed to bring a high […]

Hewlett-Packard officials reportedly are looking to sell at least 51 percent of its stake in H3C Technologies, a China-based subsidiary the tech giant inherited five years ago when it bought networking vendor 3Com for $2.7 billion. Anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg that HP is looking for a buyer in China, though […]

LG Electronics is jumping into the crowded market of vendors building ARM-based chips for smartphones. Officials with the mobile device company on Oct. 24 unveiled Nuclun, an eight-core processor that will first appear this week in the G3 Screen, a smartphone aimed at the Korean market. The chip comes with LTE-A Category 6 networking capabilities […]

Extreme Networks is building out its capabilities at the edge of the network with a new fixed switch and an 802.11ac wireless access point. The offerings are part of Extreme’s Unified Edge product portfolio, which aims to help businesses deal with such trends as the growing need for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and the increasing numbers of […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding to its lineup of highly dense and power-efficient Moonshot servers, including the first one to feature Xeon processors from Intel. The company on Oct. 23 unveiled two new Moonshot compute modules and four new solutions optimized for specific workloads, including application delivery, video transcoding, Web infrastructure-in-a-box and managed Web hosting. The new […]

Hewlett-Packard officials later this month reportedly will show that the company can still innovate on the PC side with a system that will not only run Microsoft Windows, but will also include a 3D scanner and a projector. HP will introduce the system at an event in New York City Oct. 29, according to a […]

Mitel, which under President and CEO Richard McBee has aggressively expanded its business communications capabilities through acquisitions and internal development, is now taking aim at rival ShoreTel, offering to buy the company for $540 million. Mitel officials said that ShoreTel’s board of directors had rejected an initial bid that was made Oct.2, and that they […]

Data storage giant EMC is buying out most of Cisco Systems’ stake in converged infrastructure vendor VCE and will fold it into its federations of businesses. The two companies and VMware—of which EMC owns about 80 percent—launched VCE in 2009, offering an integrated data center solution called Vblocks that included servers and networking capabilities from […]

The Internet of things is beginning to register on the radar screens of Congress. Four U.S. senators on Oct. 20 sent a letter to Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and John Thune (R-SD) asking that the committee they are on—the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation—conducs an oversight and information-gathering meeting about the Internet of […]

LifeSize Communications in May launched its cloud-based video conferencing offering. Now, the company is giving users a dashboard monitoring system that gives them greater insights into how the software-as-a-service solution is being used and by whom. LifeSize Cloud was introduced three months after Craig Malloy returned as CEO after two years away from the company, […]

IBM, continuing to shed money-losing businesses that are not central to its core efforts around such areas as big data analytics and the cloud, will pay chip foundry Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take Big Blue’s semiconductor business off its hands. The deal, which executives announced Oct. 20 along with the company’s disappointing third-quarter financial results, […]