Jeff Burt

Intel, which made a splash at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in January, reportedly is buying smartwatch maker Basis Science. News site TechCrunch, citing unnamed sources, said the giant chip maker is acquiring Basis for between $100 million and $150 million, a move that comes after reports surfaced late last month that Basis officials were […]

Cisco Systems officials have said that by 2020, there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet—from notebooks, tablets and smartphones to appliances, manufacturing systems and automobiles. Having all these connected systems and devices—which will make up the Internet of things (IoT)—will change the way people communicate and live, but they also will offer […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is generating a lot of headlines for pushing back against a right-wing think tank that tried to use the company’s annual shareholder meeting Feb. 28 as an avenue for furthering its own anti-climate–change agenda. Representatives with the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) issued a statement to Cook and Apple […]

Freescale Semiconductor and Broadcom are unveiling new software and interfaces designed to make it easier for organizations to make the move to software-defined networks. The two companies announced their respective offerings March 3 on the first day of the Open Networking Summit 2014 in Santa Clara, Calif. The products look to enable businesses to leverage […]

Apple Mac users whose systems run the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system—and according to most counts, that’s about one in every five Mac users—apparently are going to need to move to another OS. Apple reportedly has signaled to its customers that it no longer will be issuing security updates for Snow Leopard, the […]

Editor’s Note: This article concludes eWEEK’s series of retrospective articles that look back at 30 years of personal computer history—from Feb. 28, 1984, the publication date of the first issue of PC Week, the print predecessor to eWEEK. This final feature brings us to the 30th anniversary of PC Week’s debut as eWEEK continues to […]

Growing demand for 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet is driving strong growth in Ethernet switching in enterprises, according to analysts at IDC. Revenues in the global Ethernet switch market hit a record $5.96 billion in the fourth quarter, a jump of 4.8 percent from the same period in 2012. For the entire year, revenues grew […]

Freescale Semiconductor in March will begin sampling a tiny ARM-based microcontroller that company officials say will be ideal for the burgeoning Internet of things. Introduced this week at the Embedded World Conference show, Freescale’s Kinetis KL03 MCU comes in a package that is 1.6 by 2.0mm and an ARM Cortex-MO+ core that makes the microcontroller […]

Big data is one of the hotter trends in the tech industry. It’s a term given to the massive amount of structured and unstructured data that is being generated and the need to find ways to process, store and analyze it to make business decisions based the insights. Business people tend to have a high-level […]

Interest in video conferencing—particularly cloud- and software-based solutions—remains high even as sales of hardware continues to tumble, according to IDC analysts. The trend in the video conferencing equipment space has been downward over the past several quarters, and that trend continued in the fourth quarter of 2013, the analysts said in a Feb. 25 report. […]

While server vendors like Hewlett-Packard and IBM shipped a record number of systems in the fourth quarter, revenues continued to slide as the slowing demand for higher-end machines could not be offset by the growing hyperscale data center infrastructure segment, according to analysts at IDC. According to numbers released late Feb. 26, worldwide server shipments […]

Lenovo will get Motorola Mobility profitable again within four to six quarters after the PC maker’s $2.9 billion deal for the struggling business with Google closes, according to Lenovo’s top executive. Speaking to Bloomberg at the Mobile World Congress 2014 show in Barcelona, Spain, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said his company—the world’s largest vendor in […]