Jeff Burt

The worldwide semiconductor market is poised to make a significant rebound in 2013, due in large part to a growing demand for memory that is being fueled by increasing sales of tablets and smartphones, according to market research firm IHS. In particular, markets for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash memory are particularly […]

Polycom has a new CEO, four months after Andrew Miller resigned the position amid questions about his expense reports. The video conferencing technology vendor announced Dec. 3 that Peter Leav, an executive with NCR, will be president and CEO, and serve on the company’s board of directors. Board Chairman Kevin Parker became the interim CEO […]

The video conferencing market continues to be impacted by an uncertain global economic environment and the trend toward lower-cost and software-only solutions, according to analysts at IDC. However, businesses still view video conferencing as an important and growing part of their larger collaboration efforts, the IDC analysts said in a recent report. That combination of […]

Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, which seems to have been in perpetual reorganization since its creation in 2006, may be seeing its turnaround efforts finally gaining traction. The company, created seven years ago via the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies to challenge such networking giants as Cisco Systems and Ericsson, has seen its stock price […]

Tablets and smartphones may be the key drivers behind the sharp decline in PC sales worldwide, but the bulk of holiday shoppers looking for an online deal on Cyber Monday will be doing so on a desktop or laptop PC rather than a mobile device, according to analysts at Ovum. Consumers continue to worry about […]

Businesses are increasingly turning to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, and that usage will only go up, according to WAN-optimization specialist Riverbed Technology. During the AWS re:Invent cloud computing show earlier this month, Riverbed commissioned a survey of attendees to get a gauge of their use of infrastructure as a service […]

Smartphones and tablets are replacing PCs as the key drivers behind processor shipments, according to market research firm IHS. The worldwide market for processors is expected to jump 24 percent in 2013, with shipments reaching 1.5 billion units, an increase over the 1.21 billion that shipped last year, IHS analysts said in a Nov. 26 […]

Hewlett-Packard and CEO Meg Whitman will have to defend themselves in a class-action suit filed by investors who believe they were misled about the details around the company’s troubled $11.3 billion acquisition of software vendor Autonomy in 2011. A U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco ruled Nov. 26 that there were enough legitimate issues […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has been battered over the past couple of years by a slowing PC market and instability in the executive ranks, saw some positive financial numbers coming out of the last fiscal quarter, adding some momentum behind CEO Meg Whitman’s multiyear turnaround plan for the tech giant. However, despite the numbers in some of […]

Tablet shipments will continue to grow at the expense of traditional notebooks and desktops, accounting for essentially half of all PCs shipped next year, according to market research firm Canalys. In a report Nov. 26, Canalys analysts, who count tablets among PCs, said that 285 million tablets—led by systems running on Google’s Android mobile operating […]

Western Digital wants to give PC users the best of both worlds in their storage. The company’s new WD Black2 dual-drive combines a 1TB hard-disk drive (HDD) and a 2.5-inch 120-GB solid-state drive (SSD) that officials said is aimed at consumers and service providers that want to upgrade their notebooks, smaller desktop PCs and all-in-one […]

Intel reportedly is looking for $500 million for its Internet TV service and wants to finalize a deal by the end of the year. According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources “with knowledge of the process,” Verizon Communications officials already are contacting broadcast and cable channels to talk about programming for a streaming service, […]