Jeff Burt

The booming bring-your-own-device trend carries with it increases in employee productivity, but also continues to be a security headache for enterprises, according to two surveys from security software maker Trend Micro. The two surveys, released Aug. 8, reinforce what similar studies and reports have found: The BYOD trend, fueled by the rise of smartphones and […]

Nokia, which continues to restructure as it increasingly leans on Microsoft€™s Windows Phone to shore up its business, is now getting out of software development by selling its Qt unit to Finnish vendor Digia. The Qt open-source software development toolkit enables developers to create applications that can run across multiple platforms, including Microsoft€™s Windows, Apple€™s […]

Embattled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion finally caught a break when a federal court judge overturned a $147.2 million verdict against the company in a patent-infringement case with Mformation Technologies. A jury in San Francisco last month found that RIM had infringed on a patent from Mformation, which makes mobile device management software. The patent […]

Unified communications vendor Mitel is cutting 200 jobs and lowering its quarterly financial forecast in the wake of order delays and the struggling global economy. Mitel executives said in a brief announcement Aug. 8 that its revenue in the most recent quarter€”which closed July 31€”will now come in between $138 million and $139 million, significantly […]

SevOne officials are unveiling an update to the company’s network and cloud performance-management appliances, which can be used in a peer-to-peer cluster environment to enable the monitoring of millions of objects across networks. The ability to cluster the SevOne appliances in a P2P fashion allows for significantly greater scalability than in competing network performance-management tools, […]

VMware officials continue to build up their cloud computing capabilities through acquisitions, this time buying the Log Insight big data analytics platform from small technology vendor Pattern Insight. Log Insight is designed to collect and analyze in real time the massive amounts of machine-generated data created in cloud and virtualized environments, and quickly let IT […]

Hewlett-Packard continues to pay for the $13.9 billion it spent in 2008 to buy services vendor EDS Systems, a company HP executives hoped would put them on par with their counterparts at IBM Services. Instead, HP€™s services business has underperformed, validating those critics who said the company greatly overpaid for EDS. The harsh impact of […]

Hewlett-Packard should shed its PC and printer businesses, according to an analyst in a research note that raises once again a controversial proposal that helped lead to the ouster of the company€™s CEO last year. In a note Aug. 8, Steven Milunovich, an analyst at UBS Investment Research, said that in its current state, HP […]

EMC is offering businesses a high-end disk archive for their mainframe systems that will give them an alternative to physical tape libraries, which can be problematic, particularly for such areas as disaster recovery. With EMC€™s new DLm8000, introduced Aug. 6, large enterprises using IBM€™s z/OS mainframe systems can move from tapes to disk for their […]

The hack into a Gizmodo writer€™s Amazon and Apple accounts over the weekend is being used as a cautionary tale for consumers, a call to action for cloud providers regarding security policies and a sounding board for concerns about the rush to the cloud. In a lengthy first-person account in Wired magazine, writer Mat Honan […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new FirePro chips that integrate both discrete-level graphics capabilities with a CPU, similar to the processors the company sells for consumer desktop and notebook PCs. AMD€™s FIrePro chips in the past have been high-end GPU offerings for professionals rather than consumers. However, the company on Aug. 7 unveiled the […]

Avaya is expanding its collaboration technology lineup with the latest version of its Aura Conferencing solution and the expansion of its Avaya Flare Experience to Apple’s iPad tablet and desktops and notebooks running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The company on Aug. 8 also unveiled a new version of its Avaya Aura unified communications (UC) platform […]