Jeff Burt

Radvision and LifeSize Communications are rolling out solutions designed to simplify the use of video conferencing, reduce its cost and significantly improve the user experience. Radvision, which networking and unified communications (UC) vendor Avaya bought last year, is introducing a hybrid multipoint control unit (MCU) that officials said will bring high-quality video collaboration capabilities to […]

Technology spending through U.S. distributors and resellers continues to remain flat, as small and midsized businesses try to negotiate the rapidly changing technology scene and the difficult macroeconomic climate, according to market research firm NPD Group. In numbers released Jan. 28, NPD Group analysts said that sales through the U.S. channel in 2012 were flat […]

Logitech executives will decide in the next three months whether to sell off its LifeSize Communications video collaboration unit, which is struggling to compete in a market that includes such heavyweights as Cisco Systems and Polycom. In an interview with Reuters after announcing the company’s most recent quarterly financial numbers, Bracken Darell—who became Logitech’s CEO […]

AT&T, which has aggressively been buying up spectrum over the past year following its failed attempt to acquire smaller rival T-Mobile, is spending $1.9 billion for spectrum from top competitor Verizon Wireless. The two wireless carriers announced the deal Jan. 25, saying that the $1.9 billion will buy AT&T spectrum in the 700 MHz B […]

Cisco Systems, which almost two years ago shuttered its profitable Flip video camera unit, is now getting rid of another remnant of its consumer business, selling its Linksys consumer networking unit to Belkin. The deal for the home networking business, announced Jan. 25, is the latest by Cisco in its effort to exit the consumer […]

AT&T in the fourth quarter of 2012 saw record smartphone sales and 780,000 contract subscribers, but was hurt by continuing issues around its employee pension program and costs associated with Superstorm Sandy. Officials with the No. 2 wireless carrier said Jan. 24 that AT&T generated $32.2 billion in revenues, but still lost more than $3.9 […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out several new mobility and collaboration products to help small and midsize businesses deal with such technology trends as cloud computing and a more mobile workforce. The goal of the products is to give small and midsize businesses technology tools that offer similar business-level capabilities larger companies enjoy, but that address […]

J.C. Penney The retailer’s nosedive really began in November 2011, when Ron Johnson, the one-time retail chief for Apple, became CEO and quickly changed the company’s pricing policy. According to 24/7 Wall St., sales in the first full quarter after the pricing change fell 20 percent and continued dropping, customers fled the store, the stock […]

Oracle is offering a host of data center hardware under an infrastructure-as-a-service umbrella that enterprises can install and operate on their own premises, and pay for via a monthly subscription rather than upfront. Oracle’s IaaS program enables businesses to deploy the vendor’s various hardware offerings—the Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, SPARC SuperCluster, Exalytics In-Memory […]

Intel is ramping down its desktop motherboard business after 20 years, at a time when demand for computing is moving away from desktops and toward such systems as notebooks and tablets, and the quality of motherboards from manufacturers in Asia continues to improve. Intel officials announced to the media that the giant chip maker will […]

Microsoft reportedly is joining the effort to buy Dell and take the company private, a move designed to help jump-start the struggling PC maker’s efforts to transform its business. Executives with the software giant are in talks with officials from Dell and Silver Lake partners—one of the private equity firms that was initially named last […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials reported another difficult financial quarter for the chip maker, which again was battered by slowing sales of PCs worldwide. AMD officials reported Jan. 22 that in the fourth quarter of 2012, the company lost $473 million on $1.16 billion in revenue, while the chip maker’s Computing Solutions Division—which makes processors for […]