Jeff Burt

Polycom is the latest tech vendor to announce job cuts, as the company continues to deal with the transition in the video conferencing and unified communications market from hardware to software and the cloud. Officials with the company, which is the second-largest video conferencing vendor behind Cisco Systems, said Polycom will cut 6 percent of […]

Huawei Technologies, the huge Chinese tech vendor that is the target of U.S. lawmakers’ distrust, is trumpeting its investments and plans in Europe, a region company executives say is friendlier and more open to their products. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Huawei officials said the vendor spent $3.4 billion in 2013 buying […]

Michael Kendall stood in the Lenovo booth on the chaotic show floor at the Intel Developer Forum in September 2013 talking about Lenovo’s small x86 server business. Kendall, director of product marketing at Lenovo and a former longtime employee at Hewlett-Packard, spoke about two new low-cost tower servers the company was rolling out at the […]

Lenovo, which during the past nine years has leveraged its acquisition of IBM’s PC business to become the world’s top vendor in that market, is now buying Big Blue’s low-end x86 server unit for $2.3 billion. The two companies made the announcement Jan. 23, about eight months after talks on the server business broke off […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out two new Opteron server chips that offer 12 and 16 cores and are aimed at virtualized workloads in enterprise and cloud environments. The x86 12-core Opteron 6338P and 16-core 6370P, previously codenamed “Warsaw” and launched Jan. 22, are part of AMD’s larger Opteron 6300 family of processors and are […]

Fujitsu reportedly is the latest tech vendor that is interested in IBM’s low-end x86 server business. Citing unnamed people “familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal reported that the giant Japanese company is considering buying all or part of IBM’s System x portfolio, which includes systems powered by chips from Intel and Advanced Micro […]

The new generation of employees entering the workforce are highly mobile, are demanding non-traditional, flexible work hours and say they are more productive working from home, according to a recent report compiled by Aruba Networks. Referring to the group as #GenMobile, Aruba officials said these employees are molding their work lives around their mobile devices, […]

Advanced Micro Devices was profitable for the second consecutive quarter, thanks in large part to the success of the gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony that are powered by the vendor’s chips. Now AMD officials are predicting full-year revenue growth and profitability for 2014, which will mean having to negotiate through the minefield that is […]

The good news? The word “password” is not the weakest password found on the Internet. The bad news? It’s still number two, and the top one is “123456.” That’s according to SplashData, a company that makes software for mobile phones and has been keeping the list for at least three years. The company compiles the […]

Lenovo reportedly is back in negotiations to buy IBM’s low-end x86 server business, a move that would give the PC maker’s data center ambitions a boost while enabling Big Blue to shed another low-margin commodity business as it looks to focus more of its efforts on software and services. Talks between the two vendors reportedly […]

Intel is officially out of the Internet TV business. After months of predictions and rumors, Verizon Communications has agreed to buy Intel’s OnCue cloud television unit, a business that had fallen out of favor after Brian Krzanich took over as CEO of the giant chip maker in May 2013. The two companies announced the deal […]

Intel will cut about 5,000 jobs as it continues to negotiate its way through a rapidly changing tech industry that is moving away from the chip maker’s strengths in PCs and servers. The job losses will reduce Intel’s global workforce of about 107,000 by 5 percent and come a day after executives on Jan. 16 […]