Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems officials are continuing to try to calm customers still riled up over the automated updates to some of their Linksys wireless routers, most recently by announcing that Cisco Cloud Connect will no longer be the default management tool. The move follows a week and a half of consumer backlash to Cisco€™s clumsy rollout […]

Tech companies in the future will continue to be influenced by the competing pressures of customer demands and profits when deciding how to deal with repressive regimes, according to respondents to a survey put out by the Pew Research Center€™s Internet and American Life Project. In survey results released July 4, about 51 percent of […]

Intel officials may be considering cutting the price of particular low-power chips in hopes of driving down the cost of Ultrabooks, which are competing with such devices as Apple€™s MacBook Air, tablets and new systems coming out powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices. The move would be the latest effort by Intel to drive […]

Cisco Systems officials are trying to repair the damage from the ham-fisted rollout of its Connect Cloud service, which angered users of some of the company€™s Linksys wireless routers who suddenly found they could no longer log in after an update, and then were told that Cisco was collecting their Internet histories. The problems started […]

Spammers have developed malware that is creating a botnet from Android mobile devices, the latest example of the explosive growth in attacks on Google€™s mobile operating system. According to a Microsoft researcher, the malware is downloaded onto the smartphone via a rogue app, which then gets into users€™ Yahoo free email accounts to send out […]

Intel is asking a European court to overturn a $1.33 billion fine by antitrust regulators in 2009, claiming investigators relied on inadequate evidence and erred in their analysis. Lawyers for Intel and the European Commission (EC)€”the antitrust arm of the European Union (EU)€”were in Luxembourg July 3 arguing before five judges at the General Court […]

Amazon Web Services€™ lengthy outage over the weekend after powerful storms through the Mid-Atlantic region knocked out power has put renewed focus on the risks of cloud computing and how users can minimize those risks going forward. It also has generated promises from Amazon at a time when competition in the booming infrastructure as a […]

Dell€™s months-long pursuit of Quest Software is finally complete, with the tech giant announcing July 2 that it is buying the software vendor for $2.4 billion following a bidding war with investment firm Insight Venture Partners. Quest will become the foundation of Dell€™s burgeoning software business, which itself is a key part of Dell€™s ongoing […]

Google executives reportedly are proposing changes to the way the company runs its search engine in hopes of staving off formal charges by European antitrust regulators. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has sent a letter to the European Union€™s antitrust head, Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, that outlines steps the massive Web company would be willing to […]

Apple€™s iOS is a dominant presence on the mobile Web, though how dominant depends on who is doing the calculating. In separate reports, Net Applications and StatCounter found that iOS or Google€™s Android mobile operating system continue to capture an increasingly large share of the mobile traffic at the expense of such platforms as Research […]

Apple, which faced harsh criticism of its response to the massive Flashback exploit earlier this spring, appears to be changing its approach to security at a time when its Mac OS X operating system is getting more attention from cyber-criminals. Some of it is in Apple€™s messaging€”the company recently quietly changed the pitch it had […]

Ultrabooks, the very light and thin notebooks that Intel championed as alternatives to Apple€™s MacBook, are giving a boost to a struggling Windows laptop market, particularly in the high end, according to market research firm NPD Group. Ultrabooks now account for 11 percent of sales of Windows notebooks that cost more than $700, NPD Group […]