Jeff Burt

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, just weeks after having to explain disappointing quarterly financial numbers, had to go before investors to discuss how his long-term plans for the embattled company will eventually return it to where it can compete against the likes of Apple and Samsung. During the company’s shareholders meeting July 9, Heins preached patience […]

Apple conspired with five publishers to fix the prices of ebooks when the technology giant entered the Amazon-dominated market in 2010, according to a federal judge. U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote’s July 10 ruling came after a three-week trial in June, during which federal prosecutors argued that Apple played a central role in a […]

Even though most organizations continue to update their data center environments, many of those infrastructures are running on outdated resources, making them incapable of keeping up with the demands for a more virtualized, mobile and cloud-based world, according to a survey by Brocade. At the same time, a growing number of organizations are deploying fabric-based […]

Intel and Samsung Electronics are looking to boost their nascent Tizen mobile operating system with an app developer contest that will offer more than $4 million in cash prizes. Top winning applications in the Tizen App Challenge, which launched July 9 and runs through Nov. 1, could win as much as $200,000. Intel and Samsung […]

EMC is bolstering the identity and access management capability of its RSA security division with the acquisition of Aveksa, a private company whose products offer greater intelligence and business context in determining who gets access to what corporate data. Enhancing the intelligence and business context capabilities in identity and access management (IAM) is increasingly important […]

A high percentage of employees who use their own mobile devices for work do not trust their employers with their personal information, highlighting a risk to corporate data in an enterprise environment increasingly driven by the bring-your-own-device trend, according to a survey by Aruba Networks. Because employees don’t believe their IT departments are doing enough […]

Netsocket, a 6-year-old startup that has made its name with technology that detects problems with unified communications systems, is now turning its attention to the burgeoning software-defined networking market. Company officials on July 8 unveiled the Netsocket Virtual Network (NVN) suite of products aimed at the network virtualization and software-defined network (SDN) spaces. The technology […]

Polycom is rolling out its latest 360-degree video collaboration systems that are built to run with Microsoft’s Lync unified communications solution. Polycom officials unveiled the CX5500 and CX5100 Unified Conference Stations July 8 at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, unveiling the latest of more than 40 solutions that work with Lync 2010 or 2013 that the […]

Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion bid to buy his namesake company and take it private received a significant boost July 8 when the influential Institutional Shareholders Service recommended that investors vote for the proposal over a competing one from Carl Icahn. The ISS’ recommendation was somewhat surprising, given the reports last week that indicated the proxy […]

Fujitsu Laboratories officials say they have developed a platform for physical servers in cloud environments that can be installed and configured in 10 minutes, making these systems more responsive to changing workloads and as easy to configure as virtual machines. While virtual servers are used in most infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments, there are data-processing applications that […]

Samsung and HTC both are feeling the impact of a high-end smartphone market that analysts say is hitting the saturation point and beginning to slow. Samsung officials on July 5 announced that the company’s financial numbers for the second quarter will be lower than had previously been expected, coming in between $8.2 billion and $8.5 […]

Dell officials reportedly are eyeing the wearable computing market, an increasingly competitive space that is garnering attention from top consumer tech vendors like Google and Apple. As they continue to contend with shrinking global PC sales and a controversial bid by CEO Michael Dell to take the company private, Dell officials are looking for potential […]