Jeff Burt

Fujitsu Laboratories has created a technology that company officials said enables organizations to perform batch searches of encrypted data while it’s still encrypted, a capability that would enhance the privacy of the information. The technology is based on homomorphic encryption, which lets users perform computations on confidential and encrypted data without having to unecrypt it […]

FuzeBox wants to make it easier for users of its cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services to share content on disparate video conferencing platforms. In addition, the company is expanding IT departments’ abilities to manage the FuzeBox environment. Both enhancements, announced Jan. 16, were driven by demands by the company’s users, according to Kevin Young, […]

Just as Intel officials began to see a little life in its PC chips business in the most recent financial quarter, sales of its enterprise servers showed more softness than expected. Like many tech vendors that are closely tied to the ailing global PC space, Intel’s financial numbers over the past couple of years have […]

SGI continues to feel the impact of the Congress’ highly partisan budget debates, with officials at the high-performance computing vendor saying that the government shutdown last fall will hurt fiscal second-quarter numbers and impact the company through the rest of the fiscal year. Company executives said Jan. 14 that SGI generates a lot of revenue […]

Hewlett-Packard is getting back into the smartphone market with a pair of 6-inch and 7-inch “phablets” that at least initially will be offered in India. The unveiling of the Android-based devices—the Slate6 VoiceTab and Slate7 VoiceTab—comes days after reports began surfacing that HP would soon make a re-entry into a smartphone space the company exited […]

Intel over the years got a lot of mileage out of its well-known “Intel Inside” campaign that highlighted the processor technology running PCs. Now the giant chip maker is looking to a similar program to grow its presence in the cloud. Intel officials on Jan. 15 are unveiling the company’s “Powered by Intel Cloud Technology” […]

The personal data on the magnetic stripe of payment cards continues to be a prime target for cyber-thieves, whose job is made significantly easier by the vulnerabilities in the point-of-sale machines being used by retailers such as Target, according to security officials at Cisco Systems. The company’s Threat Research, Analysis and Communications (TRAC) team took […]

Alcatel-Lucent reportedly is looking to sell its enterprise business and is negotiating with communications technology vendor Unify and possibly other companies. Citing three unnamed sources, Bloomberg has reported that the sale of the enterprise group—which sells telecommunications products and services—would push forward the plan by Alcatel-Lucent executives to pare down the company’s business units and […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and other executives have been saying for more than a year that the tech giant needed to get back into the smartphone market, despite its high-profile problems with its webOS-based devices in 2011. According to reports, a new low-cost smartphone running Google’s Android operating system and aimed at prepaid and emerging […]

Acer is paying the price for jumping too aggressively in to the Ultrabook space and touch-enabled notebooks, according to new CEO Jason Chen. According to reports, Chen, speaking in Taiwan during his first press conference as CEO, said the company must now “dig [itself] out of a hole” through the strength of its hardware business […]

Juniper Networks is the latest networking vendor to catch the eye of Elliot Management, which a week ago put in a $3 billion bid to buy WAN optimization solution provider Riverbed Technology. Officials with the activist investment firm, which owns about 6.2 percent of Juniper’s common stock, outlined in a statement Jan. 13 and a […]

Smartwatches at CES: Intel, LG, Pebble, Others Unveil Devices By Jeffrey Burt Intel Jumps Into the Smartphone Pool During his keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled the chip maker’s aggressive push into the wearable device space, including showing off a smartwatch proof-of-concept that includes its own network capabilities and a geo-fencing feature that keeps track […]