Jeff Burt

BOSTON—Cisco Systems, which is better known for selling into the enterprise, is focusing much of the attention at its Partner Summit here on the midmarket. During his talk in front of 12,000 or so channel partners June 4, CEO John Chambers spoke of the importance the networking vendor is placing on the midmarket, and Robert […]

Advanced Micro Devices, in the latest step to expand its reach in the computing industry, reportedly will design chips that can run Google’s Android and Chrome operating systems. The move would be a significant break for the chip maker, which traditionally has developed x86-based processors that run Microsoft’s Windows OS. However, under CEO Rory Read, […]

Intel officials at the Computex 2013 show introduced the much-anticipated next-generation Core “Haswell” chips that they hope will give the PC market a jolt, and a number of OEMs followed with various systems powered by the processors. The 22-nanometer Haswell chips—now called the fourth-generation Core processors—promise greater performance and power efficiency, and significantly improved graphics, […]

BOSTON—A confident Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers stood on stage before some 12,000 channel partners and issued a challenge both to them and to the networking giant’s competitors. Cisco has a history of betting correctly on market transitions, from everything shifting to the Internet and cloud computing to video, emerging markets and mobility, Chambers said […]

Samsung executives have made official what has been rumored for a couple of weeks—the tech giant will use Intel chips in one of its popular Galaxy Tab 3 tablets rather than an ARM-based processor. Samsung on June 3 announced two new versions of its Galaxy Tab 3—an 8-inch model and a 10.1-inch device, the latter […]

Dell officials at the Computex show in Taiwan are showing off a Windows 8 laptop that can be converted into a tablet with the flip of its 11.6-inch screen. The Intel-powered XPS 11 Ultrabook has generated a lot of interest on the first day of the show, which is Asia’s largest tech event every year. […]

ARM is unveiling a new processor design that is aimed at the midrange mobile device market, a move that comes as Intel is making its strongest push into the space for such devices as smartphones and tablets. At the Computex 2013 show in Taiwan June 3, ARM officials announced the Cortex-A12 processor, which falls between […]

Juniper Networks and Sonus Networks are partnering to develop software-defined networking solutions for service providers that integrate the companies’ offerings and make it easier to manage and deliver cloud-based video and unified communications services. The Juniper-Sonus partnership, announced May 28, came the same week that software-defined networking (SDN) vendors Cyan and Adara Networks unveiled new […]

The notion of a Samsung tablet being powered by an Intel chip is getting more credence. There has been speculation that Samsung, which has relied on ARM-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) to power its popular Galaxy Tab tablets, will use a low-power Atom chip from Intel in its upcoming Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 device, which runs the […]

Dell’s board of directors is backing CEO Michael Dell’s buyout bid and has set a shareholder vote on the $24.4 billion proposal for July 18. After almost four months of possible competing bids and shareholder criticism of the deal, the directors sent a letter to investors saying that the offer from Michael Dell and private […]

Cisco Systems officials say Microsoft was able to create a monopoly in the video communications market when it bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and they want European regulators to do something about it. Lawyers for both Cisco and Microsoft were in Luxembourg this week arguing over whether the European Commission—the antitrust arm of […]

Internet traffic worldwide will grow three-fold by 2017, with non-PC devices like smartphones and tablets increasingly becoming the drivers of that traffic, according to a report by Cisco Systems. The networking giant’s annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast for 2012 to 2017 paints a picture of a rapidly growing Internet that will have more people […]