Jeff Burt

Google on May 16 began rolling out the latest generation of its dominant search engine, introducing what officials are calling the Knowledge Graph. The Knowledge Graph is designed to offer users an improved search experience by not only doing a better job of finding exactly what they are searching for, but also by then presenting […]

More enterprises are embracing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, with executives seeing significant benefits in employee productivity and satisfaction while acknowledging the security and support issues for IT staffs, according to a new survey from Cisco Systems. In its IBSG Horizon Study, released May 16, Cisco officials found that 95 percent of survey respondents said their […]

Dell is leveraging the technology inherited when it bought Boomi in 2010 to create new Integration Packs designed to easily and securely integrate data between applications in the cloud. The first of the Integration Packs, announced May 15, are aimed at synchronizing critical data between financial applications Intuit QuickBooks and Microsoft Dynamics GP with Salesforce […]

Emails and other documents released by Oracle show Intel executives eager to end development of the controversial Itanium processors and Hewlett-Packard officials willing to pay more than $500 million to keep the high-end platform going for several more generations. The court exhibits, released by Oracle May 16, date back to 2007, when HP and Intel […]

Intel Xeon E5-2400 The giant chip maker unveiled nine chips for the E5-2400 lineup, which is designed for two-socket servers and aimed at small businesses looking for big computing power. The chips—with three times the performance and more memory and I/O than comparable offerings—feature a balance of performance and energy efficiency, and give businesses a […]

Intel officials are introducing the third generation of their Core vPro processor platform, which offers new security and management capabilities that will make their way into everything from Ultrabooks and other notebooks to desktop PCS, workstations and intelligent systems. With the new vPro platform, introduced May 15, Intel is embedding security capabilities throughout the chip€”including […]

Apple has released a tool that will detect and remove the notorious Flashback malware from Macs running the older Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system. Apple in April had issued a similar tool for the current Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and more recent 10.6 Snow Leopard operating systems, but until May 14 hadn€™t […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials have launched their much-anticipated Trinity processors, the second generation of their A-Series accelerated processing units that they say will bring the type of performance and power-efficiency improvements that will compete closely with rival Intel€™s Ivy Bridge architecture. AMD executives also see advantages in graphics and pricing that will enable new systems€”particularly […]

Polycom is updating its RealPresence video content management technology to enable the streaming of live and recorded video to Google Android and Apple iOS mobile devices, the latest efforts by the unified communications vendor to deliver video to any device at any time. The updates, announced May 15, include new features for Polycom€™s RSS 4000 […]

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are trading barbs over the latest step on the way to trial in their dispute over Intel€™s Itanium chip platform, with HP officials applauding a judge€™s decision to toss Oracle€™s request to throw out HP€™s case. Santa Clara County Court Judge James Kleinberg in a court document May 14 outlined his reasons […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and other server OEMs are using Intel€™s May 14 introduction of new Xeon processors to roll out new and enhanced systems. Intel€™s new Xeons€”including the low-power E3, based on its 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge architecture and featuring the chip maker€™s 3D Tri-Gate transistor architecture€”are designed for greater performance and better power efficiency than […]

Intel is introducing a host of new Xeon processors, including the E3-1200 v2 lineup, the first server chips based on the vendor€™s 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge architecture. The 11 E3-1200 v2 chips were among a total of 28 processors across three product lines€”not only the E3-1200 family, but also the Xeon E5-4600 and E5-2400 lines, based […]