Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday rolled out a desktop PC aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. The HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower, powered by Intel Corp.s Pentium 4 or Celeron chips, can come customized or preconfigured, according to the Palo Alto, Calif., company. Features include three PCI expansion slots, two double-data rate memory slots and […]

Intel Corp. saw revenue remain flat and net income drop slightly in a first quarter in which the giant chip maker made big strides in its mobile and wireless offerings with the launch of Centrino and Manitoba products. Revenue for the quarter ending March 29 came in at $6.75 billion, a slight drop from the […]

The House of Representatives passed the controversial CISPA cyber-threat bill late April 26, despite worries from civil liberties advocates that it threatens the privacy of Internet users and threats from the Obama Administration to veto it. The House was expected to debate CISPA€”the Cyber-Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act€”April 26 and vote on it the following […]

Enterasys Networks in June will roll out a network solution designed to enable businesses, hospitals and educational institutions to more easily and securely address the growing trend of bring your own device (BYOD). Enterasys€™ Mobile IAM product, which will be available in either a hardware appliance or for virtualized environments that run VMware€™s ESX server, […]

The leaking of VMware hypervisor source code onto the Internet is turning attention again to the issue of security in virtualized environments. VMware officials this week confirmed that some source code from the company€™s ESX hypervisor technology and written commentary from software programmers were posted on Pastebin.com. Officials with the virtualization software company first discovered […]

Cisco Systems In 2011, Cisco officials said the company will offer OpenFlow support on its Nexus switches, and the networking giant is “spinning in” a new company—Insieme—that will be started by Cisco engineers and funded by Cisco, with Cisco holding the option of buying it if it’s successful. Insieme’s job is to develop products for […]

Intel executives will appeal the $1.45 billion antitrust fine levied by the European Commission three years ago for what regulators said were anti-competitive behaviors aimed at limiting systems makers’ use of chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices. During a four-day hearing scheduled for June in Luxembourg, Intel executives will argue that the EC, the antitrust […]

Intel executives say that Lava International€™s launch of its Intel-based XOLO X900 smartphone this week is the first step in the giant chip maker€™s push to become a significant player in the booming market. The XOLO X900, running on Intel€™s low-power Atom Z2460 Medfield processor, debuted in India April 23, marking the latest attempt by […]

Intel is buying the networking assets of supercomputer maker Cray, the latest acquisition by the giant chip maker to bolster its high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities. The two companies announced April 24 that Intel will spend $140 million for Cray€™s assets. For Intel, that will mean being able to add Cray€™s HPC interconnect solutions€”the high-speed connections […]

Facebook officials are launching a site on their social network aimed at making their 900 million-plus users and their systems more secure. Facebook, in partnership with Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos, on April 25 announced the Antivirus Marketplace, where users can download free six-month licenses or full versions of the companies€™ anti-malware software […]

Apple is at least a decade behind Microsoft when it comes to dealing with malware attacks and security, and the recent Flashback attack on Macs only highlights the problems facing the systems maker, according to the founder of security software vendor Kaspersky Lab. In an interview with Computer Business Review at the Info Security 2012 […]

Ivy Bridge Kirk Skaugen, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC Client Group, said there are more than 300 mobile products and 270 desktops powered by Ivy Bridge processors that will hit the market. Ivy Bridge Wafer Intel executives expect the Ivy Bridge ramp to be the fastest in company history. Intel has […]