Jeff Burt

Dell Technologies has officially brought top-tier storage vendor EMC and its federated businesses into the fold, 11 months after announcing the $60 billion-plus deal that will create a massive company that will compete across all segments of the enterprise IT landscape. Dell closed the deal Sept. 7, a week after Chinese antitrust regulators gave their […]

Qualcomm is partnering with top-tier carriers AT&T and Verizon as it looks to gain traction in the emerging drone and internet of things markets. On the first day of the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 show Sept. 6 in Las Vegas, officials with the mobile chip maker said Qualcomm and AT&T plan to run tests to […]

Polycom shareholders this month approved the sale of the company to private equity firm Siris Capital for about $2 billion, paving the way for the deal to be completed later this month or in October. Officials for the video conferencing vendor didn’t indicate how big the vote margin was, only that the vote passed Sept. […]

Taking a Tour of How IoT Is Put to Use by Smaller Businesses INEX Advisors’ IoT Impact Labs are working to show the significant impact the internet of things can have on SMBs. Here are examples of how the IoT is helping SMBs become more efficient and profitable. Keeping It Real Rezendes said that although […]

Advanced Micro Devices is shipping its latest desktop processors that will come with up to four of the vendor’s current “Excavator” cores and will appear in systems from HP Inc. and Lenovo later this year. While the new 7th Generation A-Series “Bristol Ridge” desktop chips won’t feature AMD’s high-profile upcoming ‘Zen’ core—those processors will begin […]

Intel is expanding its capabilities in virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the internet of things with the planned acquisition of Movidius, whose low-power processors are designed to enable much of the processing of data gathered from such technologies as Intel’s RealSense computer vision platform. Intel officials are positioning the move as a way to increase […]

Ericsson and Nokia are getting new products ready for next year that officials with both companies say will push telecommunications companies closer to creating 5G wireless networks. In fact, Ericsson executives said last week that the addition of a 5G NR radio for massive MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) support combined with other 5G technologies […]

Contact center specialist Genesys is buying rival Interactive Intelligence for about $1.4 billion, the latest move in a unified communications space that is undergoing rapid change as businesses push to move their collaboration and customer experience environments to the cloud. The companies announced the deal this week, with officials from both saying it will combine […]

Avaya is adding greater security and resiliency capabilities in its unified communications offering for smaller businesses that company officials say are seeing an increase in the number of attacks. The company this week unveiled Avaya IP Office release 10, which includes built-in signaling and media encryption between endpoints and unified communications (UC) clients that will […]

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips aimed at the wearable device market are powering the latest smartwatches from Fossil Group. At the IFA 2016 show in Berlin this week, officials with both companies announced that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), which were first introduced in February, are powering both the Fossil Q Marshal and Fossil Q Wander […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials reportedly are negotiating with investment firm Thoma Bravo to sell its software business, the latest step in an ongoing story that started earlier this summer. According to a Reuters report citing unnamed sources, Thoma Bravo is one of several private equity firms to make bids on HPE’s software assets, coming in […]

Qualcomm officials are introducing a reference platform for virtual reality headsets that they say will free users from having to use a smartphone or exterior sensors or to be tethered to a PC. At the IFA 2016 show in Berlin Sept. 1, the company unveiled the Snapdragon VR820, a head-mounted display (HMD) that will be […]