Jeff Burt

Cumulus Networks is rolling out the latest version of its Linux network operating system, expanding the networking platforms and architectures it supports. The company is announcing Cumulus Linux 2.0 five months after it debuted with version 1.5. The operating system is designed to enable businesses to separate the buying of the network hardware from the […]

Pertino, which debuted its cloud-based network-as-a-service solution in February, is expanding its capabilities with, among other things, a networking app store. The company’s AppScape app store is part of its Cloud Network Services efforts, and eventually will offer a range of free and paid network services apps not only from Pertino but also from partners […]

Intel officials, who have been furiously driving down the power consumption and size of the company’s Atom chips to make them a better fit for smartphones and tablets, are making another significant move in their efforts to expand Intel’s reach in the highly competitive mobile device space. Intel is now shipping its long-awaited XMM 7160 […]

Since June, many Dell customers opening up the box to their new Latitude 6430u laptop were greeted with an odor strongly reminiscent of cat urine, and apparently, the odor never went away. During months of comments and complaints in an online discussion on the Dell support site titled “New 6430u smells awful” that run as […]

Startup Midokura is rolling out the latest release of its MidoNet solution, a software-defined networking offering aimed at cloud providers that now includes support for the latest versions of the Apache OpenStack cloud orchestration platform. Midokura officials first introduced MidoNet in October 2012, made it generally available in April and then added CloudStack integration in […]

Intel and ARM compete in an increasingly growing number of areas including smartphones, tablets and microservers, as well as embedded devices and the Internet of Things. Now, in a twist of sorts, Intel will begin manufacturing quad-core ARM processors for Altera starting next year, as part of the chip maker’s efforts to use its fabrication […]

Cisco Systems wants the H.264 video codec to be the default standard for real-time communications on the Web, and is willing to put up its own money to make it happen. The giant networking vendor announced Oct. 30 that it is open-sourcing its H.264 codec implementation to enable it to be used for free in […]

Intel’s troubled Internet TV unit may soon be Verizon’s problem. Citing sources familiar with the situation, AllThingsD reported that Intel and Verizon officials are in late-stage talks about the telecommunications giant taking over Intel Media, the business unit created to pave the way for the chip maker’s Internet TV operation. The move would end Intel’s […]

Hewlett-Packard next year reportedly will ship the first of its low-power Project Moonshot servers running on 64-bit ARM-based processors from Applied Micro. The tech giant, which earlier this year launched the first Moonshot systems powered by Intel’s Atom systems on a chip (SoCs), has three ARM-powered servers running in its labs now, including ones running […]

Cisco Systems officials are aggressively building the networking vendor’s Internet of things strategy, including creating a business unit dedicated to the burgeoning trend. At the inaugural Internet of Things World Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 29, Cisco executives outlined the company’s plan to accelerate the adoption of Internet of things (IoT) technology in the marketplace, […]

Business leaders are starting to look into how their companies can take advantage of the burgeoning Internet of things, with 96 percent expecting their organizations to be using it in some way by 2016, according to a report published by chip designer ARM. In the report done with The Economist Intelligence Unit, ARM also found […]

ARM officials are looking to bring greater graphics capabilities to smartphones and tablets with two new GPUs. ARM introduced two additions to its Mali GPU portfolio, including a 16-core graphics chip, which partners will license and build for low- and high-end mobile devices. The new ARM GPU designs will bring new levels of performance and […]