Jeff Burt

Microsoft, as it has done with the current version of its Internet Explorer Web browser, is enabling support of the Do Not Track effort with its next-generation IE 10. However, unlike what Microsoft did with IE 9 and other browser vendors have done, Microsoft is making the Do Not Track capability the default setting, generating […]

One out of every six PCs either has no security software installed, or the security software subscription has expired, according to a recent study by security software vendor McAfee. McAfee analyzed data from voluntary scans of between 27 million to 28 million computers a month to determine the level of security on PCs being used […]

Juniper Networks, three months after buying Web security software vendor Mykonos Software for $80 million, is rolling out more than two-dozen new features and enhancements designed to expand the range of protection against attackers and hacker techniques aimed at Websites and Web applications. With the 30 new features, Juniper also is looking to make it […]

Somewhat lost in the blizzard of coverage this week of the Flame malware that set upon Iranian computers was another cyber-weapon uncovered by Trend Micro that has hit businesses and government agencies in Asia, and a German telecommunications company in the region. Dubbed IXESHE, the difficult-to-detect malware has been around since at least 2009, and […]

Intel a month ago launched the first of its Ivy Bridge processors, quad-core chips aimed at the desktop market. Now the giant chip maker is unveiling a new batch of its third-generation Core processors, including several aimed at the Ultrabook space. The new dual-core chips, announced May 31, include four tagged as Mobile Ultra processors […]

Oracle, fresh off its high-profile patent fight against Google, is heading back to court again, this time in its dispute with former partner Hewlett-Packard over the future of Intel€™s high-end Itanium processor platform. Jury selection at Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., is scheduled to begin May 31 in the case, which […]

Cisco Systems and Fujitsu were among the few bright spots in a worldwide server market that saw shipments increase slightly in the first quarter while revenues fell, according to market research firms IDC and Gartner. Analysts from both firms pointed to anticipated upgrades in x86 systems€”based on Intel€™s new Xeon E5 processors, launched in March€”as […]

1.3 Zettabytes By 2016, 1.3ZB annually will run over the Internet. That’s equivalent to 38 million DVDs coursing through networks every hour, or 10 times more traffic than the 121 exabytes that were generated in 2008, according to Cisco. It’s also more than the 1.2ZB that was the generated total between 1984 and 2012. 18.9 […]

Dell officials, who have been testing servers powered by ARM-designed processors for about two years, are now making those systems available to some customers, partners and software developers. Dell executives said May 29 that limited distribution of its ARM-based Copper servers will help build an ecosystem around the architecture that is seeing increased interest from […]

Internet traffic, fueled in large part by the rapid rise in the number of mobile devices and Internet users, will quadruple by 2016, according to networking giant Cisco Systems. In the latest release of its Visual Networking Index Forecast, which runs from 2011 to 2016, Cisco officials are predicting that in 2016 alone, Internet traffic […]

Cisco Systems continues to reign over an enterprise video conferencing market that saw a significant slowdown in growth in the first quarter, thanks in large part to weakness in such areas as immersive telepresence, according to market research firm IDC. The numbers, released May 29, add to a growing debate in the industry over the […]

Sprint will finally shut down its Nextel network by next summer, and will start transitioning its Nextel push-to-talk business and government customers onto its 3G Sprint Direct Connect network. Spring officials announced May 29 that the carrier will begin sending out letters June 1 notifying those customers of the eventual shutdown of the iDEN Nextel […]