Jeff Burt

Lenovo executives, less than two months after disavowing rumors that they were interested in buying struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry, reportedly are again raising that possibility. Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing told a French financial newspaper in an interview that was published March 11 that a deal for BlackBerry “could possibly make sense,” though he would first […]

Intel is in the midst of difficult efforts to expand its reach beyond chips for PCs and servers and into new growth areas, and will soon be doing so under the direction of a new CEO. And according to reports, the new top executive could come from the outside, which would be a first for […]

Intel and Apple could be moving closer to a foundry relationship in which the giant chip maker will supply processors for the device vendor’s popular iPhones. An unnamed source “close to one of the companies” told Reuters that officials with both Apple and Intel have discussed the idea over the past year, though no deal […]

Michael Dell’s efforts to buy out his namesake company and keep control of it after taking it private are rapidly getting more complicated and problematic. The deal to sell the world’s third-largest PC maker to a group headed by Michael Dell and included investment firm Silver Lake Partners and software giant Microsoft—already under heavy opposition […]

Siemens Enterprise Communications wants to make it easier and more affordable for smaller businesses to adopt and deploy unified communications technology. Siemens is unveiling OpenScape Business, an all-in-one platform that offers the communications capabilities found in its existing HiPath 3000 and OpenScape Office portfolios, such as full voice over IP (VOIP) and data, and digital […]

Dell’s special committee that is overseeing the $24.4 billion sale of the world’s third-largest PC maker to a group headed up by founder and CEO Michael Dell is reiterating that, despite opposition from some large investors, the deal is the best one for the company and its shareholders. The group, made up of members of […]

Shoretel is bringing is its unified communications capabilities to Apple’s iPad via two apps, a move that officials said will make the popular tablet even more attractive to those looking to use it for business. Shoretel officials on March 5 announced the availability of Shoretel Mobility 6 and Shoretel Conferencing for iOS, two new releases […]

Cisco Systems continues to dominate a worldwide Ethernet switch market that saw revenue hit $5.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, a slight decline from the same period a year earlier but a healthy jump from the third quarter. Ethernet switch sales fell 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period in […]

During the first three or so years after co-founding Embrane in 2009, Dante Malagrino was content to let the startup fly under the radar while rivals large and small scrambled to begin pulling together the pieces of their software-defined networking strategies. Much of the initial focus of established players such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, […]

Apple for now will have to be satisfied with getting almost $600 million from Samsung. A federal court judge, citing concerns over a jury’s decision, slashed by almost half the $1.05 billion judgment awarded to the company last year following a bitter trial over patent disputes. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who oversaw the California […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell continued their dominance of the global server market, but Cisco Systems—on the back of its Unified Computing System converged data center offering—has muscled its way into the top five, according to numbers released by analyst firms Gartner and IDC. Cisco tied with Fujitsu and Oracle for fourth place in fourth-quarter 2012 […]

Juniper Networks is looking to give organizations the up-to-date security intelligence they need to protect themselves against cyber attacks on their networks. At the RSA Conference this week, Juniper unveiled a number of new and enhanced security products, in particularly Junos Spotlight Secure, a cloud-based service designed to give users greater intelligence about attackers, threats […]