Jeff Burt

Logitech officials a year ago launched the company’s partner program as part of a larger effort to grow its capabilities in the competitive video collaboration space. Now the vendor this month announced 15 new members to the program, including Intel, FreeConferenceCall.com and Fuze. The new members add to the original partners that joined the Logitech […]

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is fast becoming a key voice in the effort by some in the Republican Party to push back against presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Whitman, a GOP mega-donor and a player in national politics for the party, reportedly compared Trump to Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini […]

Intel reportedly may find itself in Apple’s upcoming iPhone, which would be a significant win for a company that has found itself mostly on the outside looking in on the mobile device market. Reports have been circulating for a couple of years that Apple was looking at Intel as a second modem supplier to Qualcomm, […]

Avaya is putting a focus on the issue of customer experience with the introduction of Oceana, which is designed to help enterprises more easily include customer needs and desires in their business plans. Announced this week at the International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) Engage conference, Oceana is a customer engagement platform that makes it easier […]

RingCentral officials are turning their attention to the conference room. The company, which previously focused its cloud-based communications solutions on endpoints such as mobile devices and desktops, now is making the move into the conference room via an application to deploy and manage room-based collaboration sessions. The vendor this week released RingCentral Rooms, a visual […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will begin bundling Docker’s container technology in its various server portfolios as part of a broad partnership between the two companies. At the tech vendor’s Discover 2016 show this week in Las Vegas, HPE officials unveiled the work the company will do with Docker, from engineering and services to sales, marketing and […]

An internal technology that was developed by Intel engineers to help them better collaborate hit the market last year, and it’s putting the chip maker into an unusual market for it. Intel introduced the Unite technology a year ago during the Computex 2015 show, and now the company is adding a new range of features […]

Intel Launches Latest High-End Xeon E7 Chips, and Server OEMs Sign On Intel has unveiled the new Intel Xeon E7 “Broadwell-EX” server processor family, offering more capacity and higher performance than its predecessors. Feeling the Power According to Intel officials, an eight-socket Xeon E7-8890 v4 delivers up to 40 percent better performance than an IBM […]

Nvidia officials are hoping to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence through a new program designed to give startups in the space access to the chip maker’s deep learning technologies and expertise. The Nvidia Inception Program, announced June 8, is aimed at entrepreneurs who are starting new companies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), […]

The already-bleak outlook for PCs this year could become even worse, according to analysts with IDC. The market research firm on June 9 revised its 2016 outlook for the struggling global PC market, saying the decline in shipments could hit 7.3 percent over last year, about 2 percent lower than original expectations. In a statement, […]

Qualcomm officials over the past year have been making an aggressive push into the emerging connected car space, and they are taking their next step with a reference platform based on a broad array of the company’s technologies. The chip maker on June 8 introduced the Qualcomm Connected Car Reference Platform, which officials said will […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making a concentrated push to be the infrastructure, analytics and security provider for enterprises’ Internet of things efforts. At the company’s Discover 2016 show June 8 in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) officials unveiled two new converged systems that the company said will not only bring the analytics and security […]