Jeff Burt

Qualcomm officials are unveiling the latest editions to its 64-bit Snapdragon mobile chip, calling the 808 and 810 processors the company’s fastest yet. The 20-nanometer chips, which company officials said will begin appearing in smartphones and other devices in the first half of 2015, will be faster and consume less power than the vendor’s current […]

Lenovo is buying thousands of mobile technology patents from NEC as it looks to expand its smartphone and tablet businesses. Lenovo is purchasing more than 3,800 patent families from NEC that cover such mobile technologies as 3G and 4G LTE, as well as other technologies found in such devices as smartphones, according to officials. The […]

Intel Talks Mobile, PCs, Internet of Things at IDF China by Jeffrey Burt CEO Krzanich Addresses the IDF China Crowd According to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, the goal for his company is simple: “Deliver on the promise that ‘if it computes, it does it best with Intel.’” The New and Improved Edison Krzanich holds up […]

Google is making its in-house software-defined networking technology available to organizations using its Compute Engine cloud computing platform. Google has been at the forefront of software-defined networking (SDN) for the past couple of years, developing an OpenFlow-based system dubbed Andromeda for internal use. Now the Web giant is bringing that network virtualization technology to Compute […]

Huawei Technologies’ pathway into the U.S. enterprise market has not been an easy one, given the security worries lawmakers here have voiced about the Chinese tech giant and, most recently, reports in The New York Times and elsewhere that the U.S. National Security Agency had hacked into the company’s servers at its Shenzen, China, headquarters. […]

Video conferencing vendor FuzeBox is now Fuze, and with the name change comes a new user interface for Apple’s iPad tablet and a partnership with service provider British Telecom to expand the reach of Fuze’s freemium service. The company is helping to drive the ongoing trend of consumerization of video collaboration, and the name change […]

Dell last year introduced its XPS 12 convertible device, which can be used as a traditional laptop or—when its “ferris wheel” screen is flipped—as a tablet. Now the systems maker is putting that same capability into one of its newest ruggedized notebooks. Dell officials April 2 unveiled the Latitude 12 Rugged Extreme convertible notebook and […]

Intel officials at the company’s developer conference in China are continuing to push their efforts in PCs and the mobile space, unveiling plans for a new 14-nanometer Atom chip for entry-level desktops and notebooks and expanded work with Google’s Android operating system. Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC Client Group, […]

Juniper Networks will cut 6 percent of its workforce, exit the application delivery controller business and consolidate facilities as part of a streamlining effort that comes as some shareholders push the networking company to cut costs and return more money to investors. Juniper executives laid out their plans in an April 2 filing with the […]

Arista Networks, led by a former Cisco Systems executive and taking aim at the networking industry leader, is looking to raise $200 million by going public, according to an IPO document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the initial public offering (IPO) filing, officials with the 10-year-old company said they are looking to […]

Cisco Systems is pushing forward with its Application Centric Infrastructure as an alternative to the software-defined networking platforms that are hitting the market. Now, the networking giant is unveiling a standards-based protocol that would play the same role as OpenFlow. Cisco officials at Interop Las Vegas April 2 introduced OpFlex, southbound protocol that they said […]

Imagination Technologies, which is looking to carve a space for itself in the mobile chip space among ARM and Intel, is touting advances its MIPS-based CPUs are making in the burgeoning worlds of the Internet of things and wearable devices. At the EE Live show in San Jose, Calif., Imagination officials unveiled a small computing […]