Jeff Burt

Intel is making another push into the wearable computing device space, this time making a “significant investment” in Recon Instruments, a 5-year-old company that makes Google Glass-like headsets for sports participants such as bicyclists, skiers and runners. The money invested by Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, will help Recon in everything from product […]

In December 2012, Linux developer Ingo Molnar sent Linus Torvalds a note, suggesting that he drop support of Intel’s iconic i386 processor from Linux. The problem, Molnar, a Red Hat employee, explained, was that the work involved in continuing support of the processor far outweighed any benefits. The “complexity has plagued us with extra work […]

Cisco Systems and Polycom are still the top two vendors in a video conferencing equipment market that grew 8 percent in the second quarter, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. In a report issued Sept. 23, Infonetics analysts said revenue for the enterprise video conferencing and telepresence market in the second quarter hit $735 […]

Nvidia, the graphics technology vendor that Linus Torvalds last year called the “single-worst company” Linux developers have had to deal with, appears ready to move a little closer to the open-source community. In a Sept. 23 email to developers of Nouveau—an open-source driver for Nvidia’s graphics cards—Nvidia’s Andy Ritger wrote that the company will reveal […]

Brocade and Aruba Networks are looking to challenge Cisco Systems by jointly developing a converged wired and wireless networking solution for campus environments. At the same time, the two companies will look to bring software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities to campus networks to make the infrastructures more automated, programmable and cost-effective, according to officials with both […]

Cisco Systems officials are launching a new networking platform aimed at helping service providers prepare for and address the expected explosion of Internet traffic brought on by the rapid growth of communications, not only between people and devices, but also between systems. The networking giant’s Network Convergence Systems (NCS), introduced during a Webcast event Sept. […]

Executives at Cisco Systems might soon be ready to unveil what its startup company Insieme Networks has been developing. Cisco is setting up an event in New York City for Nov. 6 in which the networking vendor will launch an “application-centric infrastructure” that will “usher in a new era of simplicity and automation for data […]

Zoom Video Communications is the latest cloud-based collaboration company to raise more funding, announcing another $6.5 million that officials say will be used to expand its global reach and increase its focus on the education and health care markets. Officials with the 2-year-old company, which previous had raised $6 million, said the latest round of […]

Cisco Systems executives on Sept. 24 will unveil a networking system they say will underpin the infrastructure for the upcoming wave of the Internet of Everything. For the longest time, networking was about speed and cost—increasing how quickly data could move around and between data centers, and doing so while continuously reducing costs. However, that’s […]

Nvidia officials are saying Java workloads could see significant performance gains now that developers will soon be able to take advantage of GPUs to speed up the their programs. Sumit Gupta, general manager of Nvidia’s Tesla Accelerated Computing business unit, pointed to the Sept. 22 JavaOne keynote address by John Duimovich, IBM’s chief technology officer […]

Cisco Systems is upgrading its video surveillance capabilities, including offering a development platform, as part of a larger push to highlight the vendor’s growing portfolio around the burgeoning Internet of Things space. Cisco officials on Sept. 23 unveiled Video Surveillance Manager 7 (VSM7), which is rolling out about a year after the networking giant added […]

The vote earlier this month enabling Michael Dell and his financial partners to buy the namesake company for about $25 billion and take it private is the latest example of a trend where corporate boards of directors ignore the desires of their shareholders and do what they want, according to activist investor Carl Icahn. In […]