Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems and Samsung are the latest major tech vendors to sign a long-term cross-license patent deal in hopes of reducing their risk to patent-infringement lawsuits from other vendors or patent trolls. The companies announced the 10-year agreement Feb. 5. Under the terms of the deal, both vendors will be able to access the patents […]

Cisco Systems scored a win against a patent firm that had sent more than 14,000 letters to organizations that use Cisco WiFi equipment demanding thousands of dollars in licensing fees. The patent firm, Innovatio IP Ventures—which Cisco officials had accused of trying to leverage $4 billion from business through the licensing demand—on Feb. 6 agreed […]

Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks appear headed to trial in their patent infringement dispute after a federal judge in Delaware rejected Juniper’s request to have the court rule in its favor before trial and also refusing Palo Alto’s motion to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence. That means that unless an agreement […]

IBM, which already has a deal in place to sell its low-end x86 server business to Lenovo, now reportedly will shop around its chip manufacturing unit. Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reported that while IBM is looking for someone to buy the semiconductor manufacturing business, the company will keep its chip design capabilities. […]

Sony has become the latest system maker to shift its focus to the mobile device in the face of dwindling global PC sales, announcing that it is selling off its Vaio business and instead concentrating more of its efforts on tablets and smartphones. The shedding of the troubled PC business is part of a larger […]

Facebook at 10: Highlights in the Social Networking Pioneer’s History by Jeffrey Burt Facebook Is Lauched Actually, on Feb. 4, 2004, Thefacebook was launched. It was the result of the site Zuckerberg and three friends at Harvard initially called Facemash. Just days later, three other Harvard students—including the Winklevoss twins—start complaining that Zuckerberg stole their […]

Extreme Networks is rolling out a product that not only gives organizations greater visibility into application use and performance on their networks, but also turns that data into information that customers can use. The new offering, called Purview, comes from technology Extreme inherited when it bought Enterasys Networks in September 2013 for $180 million. Purview […]

Vidyo is expanding its partnership with Google by developing a video conferencing product that will enable users of the Google+ Hangout feature to connect with voice and video solutions from a wide range of vendors, including Cisco Systems, Polycom and Avaya. In addition, Vidyo’s VidyoH2O for Google+ Hangouts also will let remote workers dial into […]

The skyrocketing growth of data running over wireless networks will only increase over the next five years as more people use more connected mobile devices to run more video over faster networks, according to Cisco Systems. In its latest mobile traffic forecast, Cisco officials said worldwide mobile data traffic—which also is being impacted by the […]

Dell has developed an ARM-based proof-of-concept microserver that company officials hope will help expand the ecosystem around 64-bit ARM server processors. The system is being housed at the Dell Solutions center in Texas and can be remotely accessed by organizations and programmers for testing and development, Stephen Rousset, director of Data Center Solutions (DCS) at […]

Cisco Systems and Google are entering into a long-term patent deal designed to give each company licenses to the other’s patents, but also to protect them against patents trolls and future litigation. The agreement, announced Feb. 4, covers what officials with both companies said is a broad range of products and technologies, though they did […]

The OpenDaylight Project is rolling out the initial software release of its open software-defined networking platform, dubbed Hydrogen. The release comes 10 months after the OpenDaylight Project was launched by a group of tech vendors led by Cisco Systems and IBM, and less than five months after the organization first began talking about Hydrogen. At […]