Jeff Burt

Cisco System is rolling out a ruggedized version of its TelePresence immersive video conferencing endpoint that is designed for such harsh environments as the military, emergency response, oil and gas, and construction sites. The release of the new VX Tactical endpoint€”as well as the ISDN (integrated services digital network) Link and ISDN Gateway€”are part of […]

Intel officials are expanding the company€™s blitz into the mobile device space, saying there are more than 35 new Ultrabooks that will be available within 30 days and 110 more expected over the next year, and that there also are 20 tablet designs in the works based on the company€™s upcoming €œClover Trail€ Atom chip. […]

ARM Holdings executives reportedly are demonstrating a server running on ARM technology, this one built by Taiwanese systems maker MiTac International. The demonstration with MiTac at the Computex 2012 show in Taipei, Taiwan, June 5 represents the latest step by ARM in its efforts to make inroads into the a server market dominated by Intel. […]

Mark Hurd Mark Hurd is at the center of the case. A close friend of Larry Ellison’s, the two reportedly discussed merging the two companies, and another time talked about jointly buying Sun. When Hurd was forced to resign over his personal conduct, Ellison blasted the board, calling the move “the worst personnel decision since […]

Broadcom is looking to enable smaller businesses and home offices to leverage next-generation WiFi networks with two new systems-on-a-chip that offer greater integration of technologies and greater performance capabilities than competing offerings. At the Computex 2012 trade show in Taiwan June 5, Broadcom officials are previewing the StrataGX series for routers and network-attached storage (NAS) […]

For Intel, driving down the cost of Ultrabooks is a key to driving adoption of the very thin and light notebooks. Now officials with the giant chip maker are saying they have created a concept chassis for Ultrabooks made of plastic that could prove just as sturdy as the current machined aluminum and die-cast metal […]

Go to the Internet Society€™s Website, and across the top of one of the pages is a countdown clock, the seconds ticking away as time closes in on World IPv6 Day June 6. A year ago, many large Internet companies kicked off the event with a day-long test of IPv6, the next generation of the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling five new Opteron server chips€”including two more 16-core processors€”that the chip maker said will appear in systems from Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The new processors€”three from the Opteron 6200 Interlagos and three from the Opteron 4200 Valencia portfolio€”offer 100MHz of improved performance over current processors without increasing the power consumption, key […]

ARM executives used the run-up to the 2012 Comdex show to set the stage for the next few years, forecasting up to a 20 percent share of the notebook market within three years and promising 20-nanometer processors by next year. In addition, apparently company officials, whose chip designs run in the bulk of smartphones and […]

Dell€™s bid to buy Quest Software reportedly has broken down, just more than a week after reports said the two sides were close to making a deal. According to reports by Reuters and BloombergBusinessweek, unnamed sources said talks between the two companies broke down late last week for unknown reasons. Sources told Reuters that despite […]

What’s in a Name? Founded in 1984, Cisco’s name came from the city of San Francisco, which was why in the early days the name was in lower-case letters. In the Beginning Cisco was founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, a husband-and-wife team that, while both were working for Stanford University, created the first […]

What’s in a Name? Founded in 1984, Cisco’s name came from the city of San Francisco, which was why in the early days the name was in lower-case letters. In the Beginning Cisco was founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, a husband-and-wife team that, while both were working for Stanford University, created the first […]