Jeff Burt

Intel continues to look beyond its PC and server roots, and now reportedly is considering joining the likes of Apple and Google in moving into the TV realm. According to a story in The Wall Street Journal, Intel executives are looking to create a virtual TV network that would broadcast U.S. television channels over the […]

ARM Holdings, whose chip designs dominate the rapidly expanding smartphone and tablet markets, is unveiling a new high-performance, low-power chip that officially brings it a significant step forward in the creation of the €œInternet of Things.€ ARM on March 13 announced the Cortex-MO+, a processor that brings 32-bit computing into the same space and a […]

Symantec security researchers are seeing cyber-criminals increasingly using Twitter as a way of luring mobile device users to their malware. In a March 12 post on Symantec€™s blog, company employee Joji Hamada said that tweets are becoming a popular way for cyber-criminals to bring people to the Android.Opfake malware. €œUsers can potentially end up infecting […]

Broadcom officials are showing off two new systems on a chip (SoCs) that are designed to help operators offer improved broadcast services into customer homes. At the CableLabs Winter Conference March 12, Broadcom unveiled the BCM7435, a 40-nanomter dual-core hybrid gateway SoC that features Web domain security. With the new product, pay-television operators can stream […]

Symantec€™s advice to smartphone users? Keep the devices close. According to a recent study by the security software vendors, people who lose their smartphones or other mobile devices in public have a 50 percent chance of ever getting them back. And even if the device is returned, the person who found the phone most likely […]

Google continues to be the most popular search engine by far in the United States, but there appears to be a growing concern over privacy and the amount of personal information Google and other search engines are collecting about users, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The […]

Hackers associated with the group Anonymous on March 9 continued its retaliation for the arrests earlier in the week of members of the LulzSec hacker group, this time attacking the Website of New York Ironworks while publishing outdated source code from security software maker Symantec. New York Ironworks is a company that supplies police equipment, […]

Lenovo is recalling about 50,500 desktop PCs that U.S. regulators say pose a fire hazard. In an alert issued March 8, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Lenovo, the world€™s second-largest PC maker, agreed to recall ThinkCentre M70z and M90z all-in-one desktop systems due to a defect in an internal component in the […]

Arista Networks, a company that makes networking gear for cloud computing and data center environments, reportedly is considering a move to go public within the next year or two after fending off acquisition attempts. Executives with Arista, which is populated with Cisco Systems veterans and counts former Sun Microsystems co-founder and executive Andy Bechtolsheim as […]

Oracle is rolling out its latest integrated hardware and software platform, this one aimed at giving network equipment providers another tool for dealing with the growing demand for real-time applications on a variety of devices, including smartphones and tablets. Network equipment providers (NEPs) can now deliver to communications service providers a solution that can handle […]

IBM researchers continue to work with light in hopes of solving challenges in the rapidly evolving tech world. The latest example is a new prototype optical chip that they say can transmit up to 1 terabits per second of data, a number that could have huge implications in enterprise data centers and supercomputing environments. The […]

Cisco Systems is significantly expanding the management, networking and performance capabilities in its three-year-old Unified Computing System, an all-in-one solution that officials say is quickly gaining traction in the competitive converged data center market. Through enhancements announced March 8, Cisco officials are making it easier for businesses to manage both blade and rack servers within […]