Jeff Burt

Fujitsu, NEC and NTT Docomo jointly are creating a company that will make and sell wireless chips for smartphones in an attempt to reduce the reliance of Japanese mobile device makers on foreign chip vendors. The new venture, Access Network Technology, will enable the companies to develop chips on their own without having to rely […]

AT&T is expanding its hosted video collaboration service, including adding Polycom€™s RealPresence platform to make it easier for business users to host, schedule and join video meetings on AT&T€™s network. The carrier also is supporting Cisco Systems€™ new three-screen TX9000 Series telepresence offerings, expanding the interoperability of its telepresence services, and enabling users to conduct […]

Intel is taking another step in its mobile computing strategy with a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) design with integrated 3G power amplifiers that will target such markets as entry-level mobile phones and machine-to-machine systems. Intel€™s SMARTi EU2p SoC integrates the 3G powe4r amplifiers and the company€™s 3G (High-Speed Packet Access, or HSPA) radio-frequency transceiver SMARTi EU2 […]

Cisco Systems has closed its $5 billion acquisition of NDS Group, a week after getting final approval for the deal from European antitrust regulators. The networking giant is looking to NDS to help bolster its ambitions in the booming video space, with the company€™s technology expected to help drive the delivering and adoption of Cisco€™s […]

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are using a Cray supercomputer to make ice cream taste better and last longer. The Scotland university is leveraging a 10-cabinet Cray XK6 supercomputer€”armed with a combination of standard x86-based Opteron chips from Advanced Micro Devices and 936 Tesla graphics technology from Nvidia€”to simulate ice cream with the aim […]

Oracle and VMware over the last week have hammered home what many in the industry have been saying for a few years: You can€™t have a real virtualized infrastructure unless the network is included. Oracle, which is making a rush into the cloud computing space, bolstered its efforts July 30 with the acquisition of Xsigo […]

The Economy Every tech company is going to feel the sluggish global economy. That said, given its size, the breadth of its product portfolio, and number and size of its customers, Cisco is going to be impacted by the problems in the Eurozone, a decelerating economy in China or government agencies in the United States […]

Apple€™s new Mac OS X Mountain Lion is being embraced by users more quickly that past versions of the operating system, according to one report. Chitika, an advertising and analytics firm, said in a blog post July 27 that 3.2 percent of Macs are running the highly praised version 10.8 of the OS, just two […]

Google is again drawing the ire of British officials over its Street View program, this time after admitting that it had not deleted all the personal information collected by the cars in England and other countries. Executives with the search giant sent a letter to Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) July 27 saying that they […]

Networking equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent will slash another 5,000 jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting program, as the company looks to stabilize its financial numbers, which have been under pressure since Alcatel of France merged with U.S.-based Lucent in 2006. Alcatel-Lucent executives announced the job reductions and their plan to cut $1.5 billion in costs […]

Consumers will spend $2.1 trillion on technology products and services this year, and that number will only grow faster over the next several years, according to analysts with market research firm Gartner. The $2.1 trillion€”which covers everything from mobile phones, tablets and smart devices to the services that enables these devices to connect to networks€”is […]

ARM Holdings is seeing the benefits of not being too closely tied to a stagnant PC market that has become a drag on rival chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Executives with Intel and AMD earlier this month reported relatively soft financial numbers for the second quarter, with slowing consumer PC sales being named […]