Jeff Burt

Amid all of Hewlett-Packard’s talk Aug. 18 of spinning off the PC business and getting rid of the webOS-based smartphones and tablets, company executives also mentioned another issue they’re trying to address: the negative impact Oracle’s decision to no longer support Intel’s Itanium platform is having on HP’s high-end server sales. According to HP officials, […]

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and Google’s Android OS will emerge as the only real alternatives to Apple’s dominant iPad in the tablet market, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 16 in a conference call to announce the company’s second-quarter financial numbers, Dell said that Google’s Android platform will benefit […]

IBM researchers have created prototype computing chips that mirror the human brain, enabling them to not only collect and analyze information, but essentially learn from their mistakes, understand the data they’re seeing and react accordingly. The “cognitive computing” chips are able to recognize patterns and make predictions based on data, learn through experiences, find correlations […]

Cisco Systems officials in April introduced their Identity Services Engine, designed to help enterprises track “visitors” coming onto their corporate networks. Cisco’s ISE was created to manage not only visitors such as freelancers, customers or contract workers who need access to the corporate network, but also in response to the growing trend of employees demanding […]

Cisco Systems is offering a lower-priced WebEx package designed to attract smaller companies and individuals that might not be using online collaboration tools or may be opting instead to go with Skype. Cisco officials on Aug. 17 announced a new package that offers meetings for up to eight people for $19 a month. Until now, […]

F5 Networks, which makes application delivery networking products, is buying some assets of bankrupt Crescendo Networks. Financial details of the deal, announced Aug. 15, were not disclosed. The nine-year-old Crescendo currently is in the process of liquidation, and its top engineers in its Israeli headquarters will be moved to F5’s Tel Aviv offices. The deal […]

Dell is a company in transition during a time of significant economic turmoil, and the results are showing in its financial numbers. Dell executives on Aug. 16 announced a second-quarter profit jump of about 63 percent, to $890 million, up from $545 million during the same period in 2010. That profit growth came on revenues […]

The issue of price for Intel’s ultrabook concept is being raised again, this time in regard to how much the chip maker is charging OEMs for its processors. According to the Taiwan news site DigiTimes, system makers asked Intel to cut the price of its CPUs by half in hopes of giving them a better […]

BOSTON-Hewlett-Packard wants to help enterprises get control of their myriad data center service contracts. HP on Aug. 11 unveiled its MSI (Multi-Supplier Integration) Service, an offering for their largest enterprise customers that is designed to not only help company officials gain a better view of their IT service contracts, but to evaluate the quality of […]

Intel executives are putting a lot of time and money behind their effort to create a new category of high-mobility computing devices called ultrabooks, and the reason is clear, according to one analyst: They have no choice. Right now, the giant chip maker is essentially locked out of the booming markets for smartphones and tablets, […]

IBM, already in the midst of celebrating its 100th anniversary, is about to hit another milestone: Aug. 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the company’s 5150 personal computer, which ushered in the PC era. Now one of the system’s creators is adding his voice to the chorus of people who believe the industry is quickly […]

Acer’s upcoming ultrabook laptop could hit the shelves as early as October, according to the latest reports. Acer is one of several OEMs that have said they plan to adopt Intel’s ultrabook concept for very thin and light notebooks, which could challenge Apple’s MacBook Air systems. At the Computex 2011 show in June, Acer President […]