Jeff Burt

Mobile carriers will be among the leading adopters of software-defined networking technology as they look to make their networks more flexible and scalable to deal with the growing demand for data-intensive applications, according to a recent survey. Ninety-three percent of mobile carriers expect to implement SDN initiatives in their businesses within the next five years, […]

Diane Bryant took over Intel’s data center business at an interesting time in the industry. The rise of cloud computing, virtualization, big data, mobility and other trends has rapidly changed the dynamics in the data center and expanded the field of competitors in a part of the industry that has been dominated by Intel and […]

Gartner analysts’ recent numbers regarding worldwide IT spending for 2013 only added to a string of reports and observations that indicate that global sales of PCs will continue to slow as the year wears on. The analysts, in a July 2 report, reduced the expected growth for IT spending for the year from 4.1 percent […]

Michael Dell reportedly is under increasing pressure to increase his offer to buy his namesake company or risk having his bid rejected by shareholders later this month. The $24.4 billion proposal from Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to buy the PC maker and take it private has been criticized by some […]

Fujitsu Semiconductor will develop chips for consumer devices and industrial systems based on ARM’s big.Little architecture. Fujitsu officials announced July 2 that the company will leverage ARM’s dual-core Cortex-A15 processor, dual-core Cortex-A7 chip and Mali-T624 GPU for a wide range of systems as well as for visualization systems that enable users to better control, through […]

With the vote on Dell’s future less than three weeks away, investor Carl Icahn is again pressing the company’s board of directors to consider his bid superior to that of CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In an open letter to Dell shareholders and the board’s special committee overseeing the bids […]

Gartner analysts are reducing their forecast for worldwide IT spending for 2013, due in large part to the continued decline of PC sales. Gartner is now expecting spending on IT to hit $3.7 trillion this year, a 2 percent increase from $3.6 trillion in 2012. It’s less than the 4.1 percent growth Gartner had forecast […]

A Hewlett-Packard official is reiterating the company’s intention of re-entering the highly competitive smartphone market. Speaking to the Indian Express news site, Yam Su Yin, HP’s senior director of consumer PC and media tablets in the Asia-Pacific region, said the tech giant is looking at smartphones as part of a larger consumer business pitch that […]

Intel’s new leaders say the giant chip maker will have a sharp focus on the mobile device space going forward, and that wearable technology—like Google Glass—will also be of keen interest to them. Intel, whose x86-based processors dominate the PC and server markets, has begun to make strides in the building chips for mobile devices […]

Officials with startup Altair Semiconductor are betting that, as the prevalence of 4G Long Term Evolution networks grows, the need for mobile devices and IT products that support previous generations will decline and eventually disappear. Some investors apparently feel the same way. The Israel-based startup announced July 1 that it has raised another $25 million […]

Intel officials are prepared to begin selling a set-top box later this year, enabling customers to receive taped and live programming over the Internet. At the TV of Tomorrow conference June 25, Eric Free, vice president and general manager of content and services at Intel Media, said the company was on track to sell the […]

Oracle officials are rolling out their new SuperCluster T5-8, the latest in the company’s engineered systems that is designed to help businesses consolidate applications and databases and deploy private clouds. The SuperCluster T5-8’s features include Oracle server, storage and software and is powered by the company’s latest SPARC processor, the 16-core SPARC T5, which was […]