Jeff Burt

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is continuing to stress the chip maker’s push into such growth areas as wearable devices, embedded systems and the mobile space. During an appearance May 28 at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Krzanich reportedly showed off a “smart shirt” made with a company called AiQ that includes sensors […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a private cloud offering for government agencies that is based on the Helion cloud platform the tech vendor announced three weeks ago. HP’s Helion Managed Private Cloud for Public Sector is designed to give governments on all levels—federal, state and local—a managed and dedicated private cloud solution that enables them to […]

Broadcom is unveiling a power management unit that will enable smartphone users to wirelessly charge their devices without having to worry about what wireless specification their devices support. Broadcom’s new BCM59350 wireless charging power management unit (PMU), announced May 28, supports the standards from the three industry organizations that offer competing specs for wirelessly charging […]

Intel is turning to a Chinese chip maker with a history in ARM processors to help it expand deeper into the highly competitive low-end Android tablet market. Intel officials on May 27 announced a partnership with Rockchip in which the companies will build a new family of mobile SoFIA systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that will feature Intel’s […]

China reportedly is ramping up its cyber-security and spying dispute with the United States by asking banks in that country to remove IBM servers and replace them with systems built by Chinese companies. Citing four unnamed people familiar with the Chinese government’s review on the matter, Bloomberg is reporting that government officials from such agencies […]

Giant Japanese service provider NTT Docomo plans to offer services leveraging network-function virtualization by March 2016 after completing proof-of-concept trials with three top-tier networking vendors. Docomo officials announced May 27 that the trials—conducted with Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC—proved the feasibility of network-function virtualization (NFV), an emerging trend that along with software-defined networking (SDN) promises […]

Amid Cisco Systems’ talk about collaboration and cloud computing, security emerged as a key subject at during the Cisco Live 2014 event this week. The networking company at the show unveiled a range of new and enhanced security offerings—including enhancements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) products—and announced it is buying malware analysis vendor ThreatGrid, […]

The executive who headed up Cisco Systems’ Internet of things strategy has taken a job with a Chinese green energy company. Guido Jouret, a 20-year veteran of the networking vendor and vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Internet of things business unit, left the company earlier this month, but neither he nor Cisco said […]

Imagination Technologies is taking the open-source route in hopes of driving wider adoption of its low-power MIPS processor architecture in everything from small devices that are part of the Internet of things to servers and networking gear that run in data centers. Imagination and several other vendors—including Broadcom, Qualcomm, Cavium and PMC—have created an open-source […]

Cisco Systems has never been shy about buying a company if executives think the deal will add to the vendor’s wide range of ambitions, from security and cloud to the data center and Internet of everything. However, despite speculation in the industry, cloud provider Rackspace isn’t going to be one of those acquisitions. Rackspace has […]

Hewlett-Packard’s workforce will take another hit as the tech giant continues on its multiyear turnaround effort. In talking about the company’s latest quarterly financial numbers May 22, CEO Meg Whitman said HP will shed another 11,000 to 16,000 jobs on top of the 34,000 layoffs already announced. By the end of the year, HP will […]

Dell is broadening its sustainability efforts with new initiatives that include building some PCs with recycled plastics. Dell officials announced the moves May 21, saying they are part of the tech vendor’s larger 2020 Legacy of Good plan, which outlines almost two-dozen sustainability and social goals that the company hopes to reach by the end […]