Jeff Burt

Some of the organizers of the Internet protest that led to Congress ditching the controversial SOPA and PIPA legislation in January are now looking to make it easier to fight back against similar federal bills. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the social media site Reddit, and Fight for the Future have created the Internet Defense League, […]

Dell reportedly is considering buying Quest Software, whose offerings are designed to help businesses in a number of key areas, from database, server and user workspace management to data protection and backup, performance monitoring, and identity and access management. According to a May 25 BloombergBusinessweek article citing €œpeople with knowledge of the matter,€ Dell is […]

When more than 600,000 Mac users were under siege last month by the Flashback malware infecting their systems, officials at Kaspersky Lab were among the most vocal critics of Apple€™s response to the security problem. They and security experts from other organizations chastised Apple for the two-month delay between the time Oracle issued a patch […]

Polycom is introducing a rebranding of the company to emphasize its continued shift away from being a video conferencing hardware vendor to its software-based approach to communications technology. Polycom executives last year began to talk about the 22-year-old company€™s shift toward a software focus, and much of what Polycom has done in recent months has […]

Cisco Systems€™ Android-based Cius tablet has become a victim of the rapidly growing bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, trend in the enterprise. The networking giant will no longer invest in the 2-year-old device, though it will offer Cius in a limited way to customers with specific needs. But there won€™t be any more development of the platform, […]

Google officials once again are being accused by regulators of not being cooperative with investigators looking into privacy issues concerning the dominant Web 2.0 company. This time, the complaints are coming from Europe Union (EU), where a French agency taking the lead in the investigation over questions about Google€™s new privacy policy is saying that […]

Sonus Networks, which has sold its IP communications technology to service providers and smaller organizations, is now targeting enterprises and midsized businesses. Sonus officials, who have been developing the enterprise push for more than 18 months, said the initiative comes as such trends as unified communications (UC), bring-your-own-device (BYOD), multimedia and big data have started […]

Attachments From Unknown Sources Don’t open them. The messages often are loaded with language designed to encourage the recipient to open the attachments, which could be loaded with malware that automatically downloads onto the computer. The basic rule of thumb: If you don’t know the sender, don’t open the attachment. Unknown Links The same rule […]

Nvidia took a significant step forward in its mobile strategy May 24 when officials announced that the company€™s Icera 410 LTE modem chipset was validated to run on AT&T€™s 4G network. The Icera 410 LTE chipset is designed for tablets and €œclamshell€ devices, which now can run on AT&T€™s 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks after […]

Nvidia executives are preparing for a major push into the iPad-dominated tablet space with an Android-based platform called €œKai€ and plans to leverage Microsoft€™s Windows RT operating system when it€™s rolled out later this year. The company is looking to leverage its ARM-based chip technology to enable high-performance and power-efficient tablets that will cost significantly […]

Juniper Networks€™ investment in video conferencing company Vidyo represents the latest move by a networking vendor to add video capabilities to its portfolio. Vidyo officials announced May 22 that Juniper, through its Junos Innovation Fund, was investing in the company, and that the plan is to integrate Vidyo€™s video collaboration technology with Juniper€™s product lineup. […]

The burgeoning bring-your-own-device trend in enterprises was a key driving factor in the first-quarter revenue growth in the global WLAN market, and helped Cisco Systems and Aruba Networks both grow their share of the highly competitive market, according to market research firm IDC. According to numbers released May 22 by IDC analysts, worldwide WLAN revenue […]