Jeff Burt

More than 600,000 Apple Mac computers worldwide€”more than half of them in the United States€”have been hit by a new fast-moving variant of the Flashback Trojan malware that uses Javascript code rather than relying on user interaction, according to security researchers. Officials with security software company Intego said in an April 3 blog post that […]

Microsoft officials last month said they and several partners were able to take over a major part of the infrastructure of the infamous Zeus botnet, shutting down control-and-command centers in Illinois and Pennsylvania as part of what they called Operation b71. However, security experts are saying that while the operation effectively shut down the bulk […]

Cisco Systems is once again teaming up with EMC and VMware, this time to offer IT professionals technical training in a wide range of areas impacting the data center, from networking and cloud computing to storage and virtualization. The joint educational effort, announced April 2, comes at a time when technology trends, including cloud computing, […]

Cisco Systems, like many other major tech vendors, sees significant opportunities for growing business in emerging markets in such regions as Eastern Europe, Asia and South America. The networking giant is now increasing its investments in one of those areas, pledging to spend $1 billion over the next four years for a new innovation center […]

Samsung Electronics appears to be prepping to make a push into the server processor market, taking on x86-based chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices with its ARM-designed products. Samsung over the last couple of years has added a number of executives and engineers with server processor experience to its research and development facility in […]

ARM Holdings, whose chip designs power almost all smartphones and tablets on the market, is teaming up with two European security companies to create a joint venture to create a common security standard for such mobile devices. ARM officials announced April 3 that they are teaming up with Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient to create […]

Networking vendor Huawei Technologies finally got some good news, with market research firm ABI Research saying the Chinese company grabbed second place in the global wireless equipment market in the fourth quarter of 2011. ABI analysts said April 3 that Huawei generated $2.53 billion in revenues during the quarter, a 38 percent increase over the […]

Visa has dropped Global Payments from its list of companies that are deemed compliant with security policies following a data breach that may have compromised as many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts. Visa€™s decision to drop Global Payments from its registry of service providers that meet the credit card company€™s data security standards […]

Dell is looking to expand its cloud and desktop virtualization capabilities by buying Wyse Technology, a thin-client pioneer that over the past several years has shifted its focus from hardware to software. Dell officials announced the deal April 2. Acquiring Wyse will enable Dell to greatly expand its desktop virtualization portfolio and cloud-based client capabilities, […]

Intel has been looking to push its way into the mobile computing market dominated by devices running on chips designed by ARM Holdings, and the Ultrabook is one of the avenues being taken by the giant chip maker. But ARM and its manufacturing partners, including Texas Instruments and Nvidia, have talked about taking aim at […]

Apple’s iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating system are running away in a rapidly growing smartphone market that is now as large at the feature phone space, according to numbers in the latest Nielsen Wire report. And the iPhone’s growth appears to be coming at the expense of Research In Motion and its […]

Avaya executives may wait until later this year or 2013 before kicking off its initial public offering to keep from being lost in the expected tidal wave of more anticipated IPOs this year from the likes of Facebook and Palo Alto Networks, according to reports. The networking and communications technology vendor filed for a $1 […]