Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is joining such major tech firms as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Microsoft€”and rivals like Polycom€”in an industry consortium pushing for greater interoperability among the disparate video conferencing platforms on the market. Cisco€™s joining the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) is a significant step forward for the 8-month-old group, which had some notable heavy […]

Struggling BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, besieged by competition from the likes of Apple and Android device makers and internal missteps, is now pushing back the launch of smartphones running its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, the very devices executives are betting the company€™s future on. The delay is part of a widening eddy of bad […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to fill out their respective chip lineups for low-power systems. Intel this week reportedly introduced a pair of third-generation Core i3 chips for the mobile market, while rival AMD unveiled its latest Embedded G-Series accelerated processing unit (APU) for small-form-factor embedded designs that call for very low power and […]

Hewlett-Packard is unveiling a software platform for its Smart Zero Client thin clients that will improve network performance, which is particularly important for telecommuters or other employees working off-site, or those using bandwidth-hungry applications. HP officials announced the company€™s Velocity software June 27, the same day they rolled out their latest thin client, the t410 […]

MediaTek is coming out with a dual-core ARM-based processor designed for low-cost smartphones, a booming part of the overall smartphone market. The MT6577, based on the Cortex-A9 architecture at ARM, is aimed specifically at smartphones costing less than $200 and running Google€™s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system. The Taiwanese chip maker is […]

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle will find out sometime after mid-July whether there is a contract between the two tech giants regarding Intel’s Itanium platform. The decision by Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg will end the first phase of the lawsuit between HP and Oracle€”which began June 4€”and will set the stage for the second […]

Extreme Networks is joining Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and other established networking vendors in embracing the OpenFlow protocol as a key part of their larger software-defined networking strategies. The company will provide OpenFlow support throughout its portfolio of ExtremeOS-based Ethernet switches. At the same time, the company will support OpenFlow controllers from other vendors, including […]

Blue Jeans Network, the cloud-based video collaboration startup that came out of stealth mode a year ago, is celebrating that anniversary with new Web browser access to its technology and another $25 million in funding. Blue Jeans is among a growing number of companies looking to offer businesses video conferencing that is simple and significantly […]

Cisco Systems is greatly expanding the tools and services in its unified communications (UC) solution to address the demand from users for easier and more flexible collaboration options, and from businesses for simpler management and better cost efficiency. The networking and collaboration vendor is rolling out UC Release 9.0, which offers features that Cisco executives […]

Facebook€™s decision to replace users€™ chosen email addresses with their Facebook email address as the default on profile pages likely will make those @facebook.com addresses even more attractive to spammers and other cyber-criminals, according to one security expert. In a blog post June 26, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security software provider Sophos, noted […]

Cisco Systems is streamlining its upper management, giving CTO Padmasree Warrior more duties and saying goodbye to Ned Hooper, the chief strategy officer who oversaw some of the key acquisitions for the networking giant over the past few years. In addition, Pankaj Patel, senior vice president of engineering, will assume control over Cisco€™s engineering group, […]

Advanced Micro Devices will have a growing presence at the San Francisco Giant€™s ball field over the next three years. Officials with AMD and the Giants announced a multi-year partnership June 26 that will include the baseball team standardizing its customer-facing and corporate computing systems on AMD€™s processors, starting with 66 TouchSmart 320m all-in-one (AiO) […]