Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman reportedly will decide this month what will happen with the tech vendor’s $41 billion market-leading PC business. Whitman, speaking at a conference on women in leadership sponsored by Forbes Oct. 4, reportedly told the audience that “uncertainty is not our friend here” and said she wanted to settle the matter faster […]

BroadSoft is leveraging its acquisition of iLinc Communications to push its way into the burgeoning Web-based collaboration space. BroadSoft officials announced Oct. 3 that they have completed the purchase of iLinc, which includes the company’s Web collaboration tools aimed at enterprises that touch on a wide range of sectors, as well as government agencies and […]

Juniper Networks is rolling out a host of new switches and security software to address the growing trend of employees accessing the corporate network with a growing array of mobile devices, particularly smartphones and tablets. Juniper’s new offerings-including three new Ethernet switches, a new wireless LAN controller and new mobile security software for Apple iOS- […]

The Semiconductor Industry Association, the latest group to cast a pall on the market, said that demand for tablets and PCs is offset by slowing demand in other areas. In a report released Oct. 3, the SIA said that in August, worldwide sales of semiconductors edged up to $25.03 billion, an increase of 0.7 percent […]

Intel is growing its capabilities in both software and mobility with the proposed acquisition of Telmap, a location-based services company based in Israel. Telmap, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, will enable the giant chip maker to expand what it can offer in terms of software, according to Peter Biddle, general manager […]

A week after leaving Advanced Micro Devices after five years with the company, Rick Bergman has resurfaced as the new president and CEO of Synaptics. Synaptics, which makes interfaces for computer devices in the mobile computing and communications fields, announced Sept 28 that Bergman is replacing Russ Knittle, who had spent almost a year as […]

Executives with Advanced Micro Devices are pointing to manufacturing problems with partner Globalfoundries as the key reason for lowering their third-quarter financial forecasts. AMD on Sept. 28 announced that revenue for the quarter will come in 4 to 6 percent higher than the second quarter, a drop from the initially projected 10 percent increase. In […]

Intel, buoyed by solid PC demand among corporations and strong sales of chips based on its Sandy Bridge architecture, grew its already substantial lead in the global processor market to 81.8 percent, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a Sept. 28 report, IHS iSuppli analysts said Intel grew its market share by 1.1 […]

Officials at Acer, the world’s fourth largest PC vendor, reportedly see the ongoing turmoil at market-leader Hewlett-Packard as an opportunity to gain customers and expand their business. In a recent interview with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Walter Deppler, who heads up Acer’s European business, said HP’s recent moves-from announcing plans to spin off […]

Oracle, with the unveiling Sept. 26 of its high-end SuperCluster system powered by its new T4 SPARC chip, is looking to hang on to an installed base of some 50,000 SPARC customers who are being heavily courted by competitors, particularly IBM. During an event at the company’s Redwood Shores, Calif., campus, CEO Larry Ellison and […]

Oracle executives are looking to aggressively expand their data center offerings, both horizontally and vertically, as the company ramps up its competition against IBM and Hewlett-Packard. CEO Larry Ellison and other executives on Sept. 26 unveiled the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general-purpose high-end system powered by the next-generation T4 processor that Oracle hopes will compete […]

Users of Hewlett-Packard’s high-end servers are hoping the arrival of Meg Whitman as the tech vendor’s new CEO will lead to a thawing of relations with Oracle and persuade the software giant to reverse its decision to end support of Intel’s Itanium platform. About 150 users of HP’s OpenVMS operating system, which runs on the […]