Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems, three years after introducing Videoscape TV at the Consumer Electronics Show, is bringing the video service to the cloud. Cisco officials at this year’s CES said the company will be offering Videoscape as a service supported by the OpenStack open cloud platform. The goal is to give service providers and media companies another […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich wants Intel to be at the forefront of the burgeoning wearable computing market, and at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas he laid out a range of new products and initiatives that the giant chip maker is offering on this front. During his CES keynote address Jan. 6, Krzanich, […]

The Internet of everything will take center stage when Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers gives his keynote address Jan. 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014. Chambers over the past year has talked about Cisco’s ability to take advantage of key transitions in the tech industry, and has pointed to the Internet of everything as […]

Qualcomm and Nvidia are looking to expand their mobile chip technologies beyond smartphones and tablets and into cars, smart TVs and other systems on the list of increasingly connected and intelligent systems. Both vendors unveiled new chips at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 that build off their capabilities in mobile devices to make moves […]

The unified communications market could grow from $22.8 billion in 2011 to $61.9 billion by 2018, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. Businesses are still looking for ways to cut expenses, grow productivity and increase efficiencies, and unified communications (UC) represents a way to do this via real-time collaboration, Transparency Market Research […]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing an Android-based all-in-one PC to the commercial space, part of a larger rollout of systems during the first day of the International Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas. The Slate21 Pro AiO is part of HP’s larger strategy to offer a wider range of operating systems on their PCs and other […]

Intel officials reportedly will be showing off new wearable computing devices powered by the chip maker’s Quark processing technology at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 this week. Speaking to the Website Recode, CEO Brian Krzanich said the vendor at CES will announce its latest Quark chip and will demonstrate some wearable devices that Intel engineers […]

Cisco Systems was one of several top-tier tech companies to respond to reports that the National Security Agency had compromised various systems—from network switches to smartphones—to help with its spying activities, promising to investigate the allegations that first arose in a report Dec. 30 in Germany’s Der Spiegel publication. The Der Spiegel report said that […]

Most of the talk around Intel involves its efforts to gain traction against ARM and its partners in the highly competitive mobile device space, as well as its anticipated competition with ARM in the burgeoning low-power microserver market. The chip maker also is making moves in such diverse areas as the Internet of things, the […]

The United States will lead the way in a global technology market that will see 5.5 percent growth in 2014, though it will still take a year for the market to see strong growth, according to a Forrester Research analyst. While the market growth this year will be better than in 2013, it will still […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are upping the number of jobs cuts that will be part of the company’s multiyear turnaround efforts, saying now that 34,000 jobs will be gone by the end of 2014. The giant tech vendor outlined the numbers as part of its annual report filed Dec. 30 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), […]

Acer, the slumping PC maker that saw its CEO and president both resign less than two months ago and a new CEO named in late December, reportedly will now have to deal with the loss of several other executives. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that three executives—CTO Arif Maskatia; Walter Deppeler, head of […]