Jeff Burt

WebOS’ troubled history with Hewlett-Packard will come to an end in January. The widely regarded mobile platform has made its way through three companies over the past several years, never really being able to compete with the likes of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. HP inherited webOS in 2010 when it bought Palm for $1.2 […]

VMware is making a deeper push into the Internet of things, joining an industry standards group and partnering with another vendor to help organizations more easily manage and secure connected smart devices. At the IoT World Forum this week, the virtualization technology giant announced that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), one of […]

Mimosa Networks, a 2-year-old company that is working to bring fiber-level capabilities to wireless network technology, in August unveiled its first products aimed at Internet service providers. The startup now is turning its focus to the end users, unveiling a suite of access points and consumer devices that officials said will bring broadband speeds via […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ restructuring will continue, with executives saying Oct. 16 that the chip maker will cut about 700 jobs. The announcement from President and CEO Lisa Su came a week after AMD surprised the industry when Rory Read, who had led the company for more than three years, stepped down, giving way to Su […]

Cisco Systems officials are looking to leverage the company’s “fog computing” initiative to drive its push to become the foundational technology provider for the burgeoning Internet of things. Cisco CEO John Chambers has said the Internet of things (IoT) will be the most significant transition in the tech industry since the Internet, and that he […]

Supercomputer maker Cray is unveiling the second of its appliances designed to address big data in the high-performance computing space. Cray officials two years ago rolled out their YarcData Urika system—now called Urika-GD—which offers real-time data discovery using graph analytics. In December, the company will begin selling the Urika-XA appliance, a system that comes integrated […]

Hewlett-Packard is broadening its network virtualization efforts with a solution designed to more easily deploy cloud networks and new members signing onto its network-functions virtualization program. Among the announcements HP officials made Oct. 14 at the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress 2014 show included the unveiling of the company’s Distributed Cloud Networking (DCN) solution, which […]

Intel’s embattled mobile chip business has finally gotten some good news in the form of an Asus smartphone. Intel executives Oct. 14 said that in the third quarter the company saw significant revenue gains in the PC and data center businesses, but the chip maker’s Mobile Communications Group lost $1 billion over those three months […]

Qualcomm officials are pushing forward the company’s efforts around the Internet of things with the planned $2.5 billion acquisition of British chip maker CSR. CSR has expertise in a range of areas, including Bluetooth technology, automotive infotainment and indoor location, all of which are expected to become increasingly important as the Internet of things (IoT) […]

Intel has spent a lot of effort and money over the past several years trying to diversify its portfolio by extending its reach into such areas as chips for mobile devices in hopes of reducing its reliance on PCs and servers. However, it is the PC and data center businesses that are driving the chip […]

Dell is rolling out its network-functions virtualization platform with the goal of giving telecommunications companies an open solution they can use to accelerate their deployments of the technology. At the same time, Dell officials on Oct. 14 also unveiled network-functions virtualization (NFV) starter kits in hopes of fueling the development of trials and proofs-of-concept (PoCs) […]

Lenovo, in its first announcement after buying IBM’s x86 server business for $2.1 billion, is teaming up with VMware to build new software-defined data center offerings for cloud and end-user computing environments. The two companies unveiled the partnership Oct. 14 at VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, a move that Lenovo officials said extends a […]