Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is enlisting partners in its efforts to grow the use of chat bots on its Spark collaboration platform, an area in the enterprise communications space that is gaining more attention from such top-tier vendors as Microsoft and Facebook. Cisco is teaming up with Gupshup, which builds bot platforms, and natural language technology vendor […]

Cisco Systems executives are using the company’s user conference this week to put an emphasis on the need for greater network security as organizations make their way to becoming digital businesses. On the first day of the Cisco Live 2016 event in Las Vegas, CEO Chuck Robbins and other officials stressed that the rapidly changing […]

The global PC market continued its decline in the most recent quarter, but it was slower than expected and, if a few things break the right way, there could be improvement in the coming quarters, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner. IDC said second-quarter PC shipments fell 4.5 percent over the same period in […]

The open-source RISC-V chip architecture was created to help developers more easily and cheaply customize processors that run their devices, and last year an industry consortium was formed around the technology. Now the inventors of RISC-V want to see if they can build a business based on the architecture. SiFive, a startup founded by some […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials reportedly are considering selling software assets like Autonomy and Vertica Systems as they look to streamline the company to meet changing customer demands brought on by such trends as the cloud, the proliferation of mobile devices and the Internet of things. According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources, company executives […]

Qualcomm’s high-performance Snapdragon 820 mobile chip, launched about six months ago, was what the vendor needed following the problems that came along with its predecessor, the 810. With the Snapdragon 820, the company not only got back to designing custom ARM-based cores for the Kryo CPU, but integrated a wide range of components onto the […]

Broadcom’s Internet of things business grew out of a pet project started a few years ago by a group of engineers interested in seeing what they could do with the company’s WiFi and Bluetooth technologies to connect devices to the Internet and cloud that had never been connected before. They later would add a software […]

Advanced Micro Devices engineers have issued a fix for the power issues that have dogged the company’s new Radeon RX 480 GPU for about a week. Websites such as Tom’s Hardware, TecLab and PC Perspective found that the new GPU, which was rated as a 150-watt graphics card, was drawing an average of 168 watts […]

Mitel officials have dropped their $1.96 billion proposal to buy Polycom after declining to raise their bid after a private equity firm offered $2 billion for the video conferencing technology vendor. Mitel President and CEO Rich McBee said he is disappointed, but that boosting its offer for Polycom wouldn’t make sense for Mitel or its […]

Lenovo is teaming up with Red Hat as it looks to build tightly integrated and open systems for the telecommunications industry, and is looking at network virtualization as a key part of the effort. At the recent Red Hat Summit, Lenovo officials unveiled its Open Platform@Lenovo (OP@L) to create open infrastructure that will run Red […]