Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices executives have started talking about what they are calling the upcoming “Surround Computing Era,” a vision of a future with myriad compute interfaces and devices infused with greater intelligence, found in everything from PCs and appliances to automobiles and clothing. The vision laid out at the recent Hot Chips 2012 conference by […]

ZTE has become the latest phone maker to unveil a smartphone powered by Intel technology, introducing the Grand X IN device that will begin selling in Europe next month. The Grand X IN, announced Aug. 30 at the IFA 2012 show in Berlin, will be powered by Intel’s Atom Z2460 Medfield processor and will run […]

No Title PROS: PC Businesses Are a Drag As Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told The Wall Street Journal, “If you took out the PC business, [Dell] would have had a damn good quarter.” Dell saw revenue in its Enterprise Solutions unit grow 6 percent, while notebook PC sales fell 26 percent […]

Cisco Systems is changing the licensing structures of its unified communications portfolio to reflect the evolving ways people are working and the growing trend toward software-based collaboration tools. The networking and collaboration giant announced the modified licensing for its Unified Communications Manager UC Release 9.0 Aug. 30, including making the licensing software-based rather than device-based, […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and former top HP executive Carly Fiorina are both being talked about as possible administration officials under Mitt Romney should the former Massachusetts governor win the presidency in November. However, while Fiorina did not back away from taking on a position in a Romney administration, Whitman reportedly has said she plans […]

Advanced Micro Devices shook up the server chip space in 2003 when officials unveiled the first Opterons, x86-based processors that could run both 32- and 64-bit applications and offered an integrated memory controller, among other features. The new chip came at a time when rival Intel was still looking to Itanium to be the 64-bit […]

When Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO a year ago, replacing an ailing Steve Jobs who would die only weeks later, the question was whether Cook, a strong operations guy as COO, could bring the same vision and innovation that had defined his predecessor. Cook had served as interim CEO several times before, during […]

Dell is offering a service that will enable businesses to leverage servers and other infrastructure in a Dell data center to create their own private clouds. Through Dell’s Cloud Dedicated Services, businesses would get access to all the technology they need-from servers and storage to networking and managed services options-to deploy a managed private cloud […]

Video conferencing continues to draw interest from enterprises, but the uncertain global economy and reduced IT spending in the public sector are conspiring to drive down revenue in the market, according to analysts with market research firm IDC. The analysts reported Aug. 24 that revenue in the video conferencing space fell 10 percent in the […]

McAfee is expanding its mobile security solution with privacy features to protect Android tablet and smartphone users from apps that may look to access personal information on their devices. At a time when the number of cyber-attacks on Android-based devices is skyrocketing, McAfee’s Mobile Security software also reports to the user apps that may be […]

Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in a growing Ethernet switch market that is being fueled by such trends as cloud computing, virtualization and mobility, according to IDC analysts. In the second quarter, revenue for Ethernet switches worldwide jumped 8.5 percent, to $5.5 billion, while 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch sales increased 22.9 percent […]

Intel has found another small overseas smartphone vendor to sell devices powered by the chip maker’s low-power Atom platform. MegaFon, a Russian telecommunications services provider, is selling the MegaFon Mint in that country starting Aug. 22. The MegaFon Mint is based on Intel’s Smartphone Reference Design, which includes the chip maker’s Atom Z2460 Medfield processor. […]