Jeff Burt

A set of security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chipsets has put 900 million Android smartphones and tablets at risk of being taken over by hackers, according to researchers at security technology vendor Check Point Software Technologies. At the DefCon 24 show in Las Vegas on Aug. 7 and in a post on the company blog, Adam […]

Qualcomm continues to sign Chinese smartphone makers to licensing deals that allow the companies to use the chip maker’s 3G and 4G technologies in their products. Most recently, Qualcomm entered into a licensing agreement with Vivo Communication Technology, the third largest smartphone maker in a lucrative Chinese market. Through the deal, Vivo will pay royalties […]

Google and Facebook are fierce rivals with a common challenge: how to fit as much processing power into their data centers as possible to meet the always-growing demand for more capacity while keeping down the power and operational costs that come with adding servers. To address the issue, the two hyperscale players have looked beyond […]

Avaya executives in May said the business communications and networking vendor was evaluating its options for the future as it deals with a debt burden hovering around $6 billion. Now the company reportedly is considering selling its contact center business for as much as $4 billion. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported that officials with Genesys […]

Huawei is unveiling an interconnected group of laboratories that are designed to help network operators more quickly and easily embrace and deploy cloud computing solutions in their environments. The Chinese tech giant, whose reach extends from the data center through the network and out to the edge—it’s the world’s third-largest smartphone maker behind Apple and […]

Mitel’s failed bid to buy video conferencing vendor Polycom isn’t slowing down the company’s ambitions to use acquisitions to help it grow its place in the highly competitive business communications marketplace. In a conference call to review the company’s latest financial quarter, Mitel CEO Rich McBee said that the Polycom situation helped the company hone […]

ShoreTel officials are forming a committee to explore various options for the business communications company, which could include everything from selling all or parts of the company to joint ventures and partnerships. The company’s board of directors has formed a strategic advisory committee that will advise the full board on the various options while ShoreTel […]

BlackBerry CEO John Chen over the past several months has made software licensing a key part of his efforts to drive revenue in the struggling mobile device maker, saying he wants to better monetize the company’s more than 38,000 patents. Now BlackBerry is suing Avaya, claiming the networking and communications technology provider has infringed on […]

Protecting the Corporate Network, Apps From the Rio Olympics Companies typically experience network performance due to employees streaming high-profile events. With the Olympics upon us, here are ways to alleviate strains on the network this time around. Plenty of Livestreaming Opportunities During the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, there were 8.2 billion page views and 628 […]

Dell is expanding its long-time partnership with enterprise software maker SAP with the launch of an innovation lab designed to give businesses the tools they need to assess, develop and test workloads for SAP’s HANA in-memory analytics offering. Dell Services’ SAP HANA lab will enable customers to put as much as 30 terabytes of data […]

Intel officials, who have targeted the internet of things and wearable devices as key growth areas, are recalling its Basis Peak smartwatches due to overheating issues that they say could cause a user’s skin to burn or blister. The chip maker issued the voluntary recall Aug. 3 after almost two months of trying unsuccessfully to […]

Intel officials continue to push the chip maker away from the contracting PC space while putting more attention on areas such as the data center, cloud, connectivity and the internet of things (IoT). In a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), company officials reiterated the strategy that they call the “Virtuous […]