Jeff Burt

HTC officials are coming out with their One Max oversized smartphone a day early, showing off an Android device that comes with an oversized screen and fingerprint scanner. The company reportedly unveiled the device Oct. 14 after details of the One Max were released early on the Internet. HTC officials were expected to launch their […]

Imagination Technologies officials are unveiling the design for a six-core MIPS processor aimed at a range of devices, including smartphones and tablets. Imagination’s MIPS P5600 is the first in its Series5 “Warrior”chips, a 32-bit design that company officials said offers CPU cores that are 30 percent smaller than competitive cores, which makes it suitable for […]

Cloud, Mobility, 3D Printing Make Gartner’s 2014 Key Technologies List by Jeffrey Burt Getting a Handle on the Growing Numbers of Mobile Devices The size of the mobile workforce will only grow, fueled by such trends as bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and along with that growth will come increasing diversity in the kinds of mobile devices and […]

Supercomputer maker SGI is feeling the impact of the government shutdown and the looming threat around the debt ceiling. SGI executives told analysts and journalists Oct. 10 that sales and profits for the most recent financial quarter were hurt by the partial government shutdown, and that revenues for the current fiscal year—which will end in […]

Giant Chinese IT vendor Huawei Technologies reportedly will spend the next several years focusing on its management structure and growing the business rather than making any significant acquisitions. Chen Lifang, senior vice president in charge of Huawei’s external relations and one of 13 board directors, also told The Wall Street Journal that the company will […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Individuals, companies and governments are going to have to reconsider how they think about and deal with privacy as increasing amounts of personal data are collected and stored, according to speakers at the EmTech 2013 conference here. Devices, Websites and sensors continue to collect more information on people, from what they’re buying, to how […]

Intel Begins to Lay Out Its Road Map for the Internet of Things By Jeffrey Burt Intel’s Expansive Look at the Internet of Things Ton Steenman, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Intelligent Systems Group, said the chip maker’s IoT plans will accelerate the market and open it up to more businesses. “Intel has […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—One of the key challenges facing the tech industry in the United States is the issue of immigration, according to Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and current chairman and CEO of the Revolution venture capital fund. Speaking during the EmTech 2013 event on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) here Oct. […]

Apple’s expected release this month of a 64-bit iPad may be a blow to PC makers hoping to see a boost in corporate PC sales as businesses migrate away from Microsoft’s 12-year-old Windows XP operating system. In a research note Oct. 7, Chris Whitmore, an analyst with Deutsche Bank Equity Research, said an iPad armed […]

Back-to-school sales did little to buoy a faltering global PC market in the third quarter, which saw shipments decline again despite the silver lining of a small bump in the corporate PC space, according to analysts with both IDC and Gartner. Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, which all have a strong presence in the enterprise, saw […]

Cisco Systems’ $2.7 billion acquisition of cyber-security company Sourcefire on Oct. 7 could significantly boost its growing security business, a key part of the tech vendor’s efforts to expand its networking roots to become an enterprise IT solutions and services provider. The deal, which was first announced in July, came several months after the company’s […]

Yahoo has donated 125 servers to Washington, D.C.’s Howard University to help form the basis of its new Yahoo Data Center. This new data center will be housed in Howard University’s Computer Learning and Design Center (CLDC) as part of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences. Sonya Smith, director of the CLDC, said […]