Jeff Burt

Intel reportedly is developing a 48-core chip for mobile devices that could begin appearing in smartphones and tablets within the next five to 10 years. According to a report in Computerworld, researchers at Intel Labs in Barcelona are working on determining ways to use and manage so many cores on a mobile chip, but said […]

Hurricane Sandy knocked out 25 percent of all the cell towers in the 10 states that the massive storm hit, according to federal regulators. And while service has remained relatively strong after Sandy hit land, the situation could get worse before it improves. Many of the cell sites still online are running on backup power […]

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and other wireless carriers continue to try to restore communications and Internet services to the parts of the East Coast slammed by the massive Hurricane Sandy. New York City and parts of New Jersey, where the storm came ashore Oct. 29, were particularly hard hit, with reports of millions of people without […]

TACC The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), founded in 2001, has been a key computational research facility over the past 10-plus years, starting off with a midlevel Cray system and now housing several powerful supercomputers. Research TACC, located in Austin, is supported by the University of Texas at Austin and National Science Foundation, and grants […]

EMC might not be interested in buying networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks, but that doesn’t mean the two companies won’t partner together. The two companies announced Oct. 29 that Juniper’s QFabric data center networking portfolio can now interoperate with EMC’s VMAX and VNX storage arrays, after months of testing with EMC’s E-Lab. In addition, QFabric […]

Intel, IBM and Microsoft are among a large number of top-tier tech vendors that saw weak third-quarter earnings, with executives from many of these IT companies talking about a difficult global economy that is forcing enterprises to keep a tight grip on their IT dollars. However, while economic times in Europe are particularly difficult, issues […]

Huawei, under pressure in the United States and overseas over suspicion that its telecommunications equipment could pose a national security risk, reportedly is looking to allay those fears, starting in Australia. Officials in the U.S, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere have voiced concerns that Huawei’s close ties to the Chinese government make the company’s telecom […]

With the release of Microsoft’s Windows 8, the competition between Intel and ARM promises to escalate, particularly in the booming tablet market. However, if Intel CEO Paul Otellini is overly concerned about ARM, he isn’t showing it. In an interview with the AllThingsD news site, Otellini compared ARM with past competitors that eventually failed to […]

Storage giant EMC is not going to buy networking vendor Juniper Networks, and its relationship with Cisco Systems is still strong, according to CEO Joe Tucci. During a conference call with analyst and journalists to discuss EMC’s third-quarter financial numbers, Tucci said that despite rumors that began in July when EMC-owned VMware bought Nicira—a player […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives will be in San Francisco Oct. 29 to talk about the company’s ambidextrous strategy of using third-party silicon technology in its own server processors, and are promising that a “special guest” will appear on stage alongside AMD CEO Rory Read. The event—which comes the same week as ARM’s developer conference in […]

Dell is donating an ARM-based server concept to the open-source community, the latest step by the systems maker to fuel the creation of an ecosystem around the idea of servers powered by ARM’s low-power chip designs. Dell officials announced Oct. 25 that they have donated the server, which runs Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore system on a […]

Microsoft has failed to offer Windows users in Europe a choice of Web browsers in the operating system, violating a commitment the software giant made almost three years ago, according to European antitrust regulators. The European Commission—the antitrust arm of the European Union—issued a “statement of objections” Oct. 24 formally noting Microsoft’s noncompliance with the […]