Jeff Burt

Innovation Center Verizons Innovation Center consists of two buildings, a 135,000-square-foot facility and a new 60,000-square-foot building, pictured here. A sister facility, Verizons Application Innovation Center, is scheduled to open in San Francisco later this summer. LTE-Powered Car Verizon officials showed of an ONStar-powered Buick that is being used as a test-bed for the carriers […]

Cisco Systems’ much-anticipated Cius enterprise tablet is getting its share of support at this week’s Cisco Live event in Las Vegas. SAP-owned Sybase is rolling out mobile-device security and application-management software support designed to help developers build and deploy enterprise applications on the Cius, which is expected to launch July 31 with a 7-inch model. […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly could be the first vendor to launch an “ultrabook,” beating out Asus for the title. According to a report on the Taiwanese Website DigiTimes, HP could launch two or more models of ultrabooks before Asus comes out with its UX21 devices in September. Quoting “sources at Taiwan-based suppliers for parts and components,” DigiTimes […]

WALTHAM, Mass.-In the past, when Verizon Wireless unveiled a new wireless network, such as its 3G platform, the carrier would set it up, offer a USB modem and let others worry about the technologies that would leverage it, according to Kyle Malady, vice president of technology at the company. However, with the rollout of its […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out new offerings to make cloud computing more efficient, scalable and secure. At the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas July 13, Cisco officials unveiled additions to its UCS (Unified Computing System) infrastructure offering, Nexus switches, WAAS (Wide Area Application Service) and IronPort Email Security product. The new offerings are part […]

Cisco Systems may cut as many as 5,000 jobs in August, the latest significant move as the networking giant looks to reorganize its business and improve its bottom line, according to market research firm Gleacher & Co. In a research note July 11, Gleacher analyst Brian Marshall said the job cuts could rival the 8,000 […]

Polycom is bringing Microsoft’s Lync unified-communications platform from the desktop to a full conference room telepresence system. Polycom officials at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles July 11 introduced the CX7000 Unified Collaboration System, a telepresence solution that offers Microsoft Lync built in. With the tight integration, Lync users will get the same UC […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are ramping up the invectives in the increasingly ugly legal dispute with Oracle over the giant software maker’s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip platform. Responding to accusations Oracle made last week that they were trying to hide information, HP officials said in court documents July 7 that they were open […]

Computer makers MSI and Gateway are rolling out laptops sporting new chip technologies from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. MSI on July 8 unveiled the latest additions to its X-Slim Series of notebooks, including one-the X460-that company officials are calling the lightest to offer Intel’s high-end quad-core Core i7 chip. The 14-inch ultraportable notebook and […]

LG Electronics officials, who earlier this year boasted of an aggressive expansion of their smartphone portfolio, are now reportedly cutting their smartphone sales projections by 20 percent after losing business to such competitors as Apple and Samsung. Park Jong Seok, head of LG’s mobile business, told reporters at a media briefing July 7 that the […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out a set of appliances designed to help businesses manage and optimize the rapidly growing amount of video network traffic. Cisco on July 7 unveiled its ECDS (Enterprise Content Delivery System), a collection of technologies that together are aimed at enabling businesses to better scale and deliver high-quality live and on-demand […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to roll out networking technology aimed at sports stadiums and arenas, with the latest being a new WiFi access point and antennas designed to give employees, businesses and fans improved Internet access. Cisco officials on July 6 rolled out the Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi initiative, which includes the Aironet 3500p Access […]