Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices is being squeezed by a weakening consumer PC market and strong rivals in both traditional x86 processors and the booming mobile device space. How CEO Rory Read and the executive team that he has put together over the past few months respond will go a long way in determining the future for […]

Microsoft saw revenue grow in its fiscal fourth quarter by 4 percent, but the software giant swung to its first-ever loss due to the write-down from its troubled aQuantive acquisition five years ago and deferred revenue related to its Windows 8 upgrade program. Microsoft officials announced earlier this month that it was taking a $6.2 […]

Microsoft€™s release later this year of its Windows 8 operating system, along with continued strong demand for smartphones and tablets and the rebound from flooding in Thailand last year that strangled hard-disk drive inventories, are fueling growth in the global semiconductor industry, according to analysts at market research firm IDC. However, offsetting some of those […]

The Internet Defense League, a loose coalition of Internet sites that was first announced in May to help protect the Web against proposed laws and other actions members deem are aimed at hindering Internet freedom, is ready for its official launch. The group€”which includes advocacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), OpenCongress and Fight […]

Palo Alto Networks is bumping up the price it€™s looking for as it prepares for what will be the largest tech initial public offering since Facebook’s controversial IPO in May. The company, which makes next-generation network firewall software, is now expected to charge $38 to $40 a share in its initial public offering, up from […]

Intel executives are remaining optimistic about sales of Ultrabooks in the second half of the year, despite the struggling global economy and weakening consumer PC sales. Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini, in a conference call with analysts and journalists July 17 to discuss the company€™s second-quarter financial numbers, said that Ultrabook sales in the […]

Intel is the world€™s dominant chip maker, but its business model doesn€™t align well with the move in computing toward mobile, and that will make it difficult for the company to make significant inroads into smartphones, tablets and other devices, according to an official with ARM Holdings. ARM-designed chips can be found in more than […]

Hewlett-Packard, Calxeda and Canonical are heading up a project designed to show how the OpenStack open-source cloud platform can perform on servers powered by ARM-based processors. Announced July 18 at the OSCON open-source show in Portland, Ore., the community behind OpenStack has created a new zone in its TryStack test sandbox for HP servers powered […]

ShoreTel is expanding the video conferencing and instant messaging capabilities of its unified communications platform, leveraging open standards to help businesses increase employee productivity. The company€™s ShoreTel 13 software release, announced July 17, takes advantage of new capabilities within ShoreTel Communicator, the platform€™s call manager application, to broaden the video collaboration and IM features. The […]

Dell officials are unveiling their latest containerized data center, a highly mobile solution that targets military operations and first responders when speed and mobility are crucial. Unlike larger mobile data centers from Dell and other vendors, Dell€™s customizable Tactical Mobile Data Center is smaller€”in the area of 10 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet, […]

Intel is feeling the impact of an uncertain global economy and slowing consumer demand for PCs, with profits falling slightly in the second quarter and officials lowering their outlook for the second half of the year. The consumer PC market, particularly in established markets like the United States and Western Europe, has been slowing for […]

Intel is bulking up its supercomputing capabilities by buying Whamcloud, a startup that is a proponent of the open-source Lustre parallel distributed file system. Intel bought the company to help in its push toward exascale computing, according to Brent Gorda, former president and CEO of Whamcloud and now general manager of Intel€™s High Performance Data […]