Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is hoping the shuttering of its consumer business-including its popular Flip video camera-will help it refocus on its enterprise units and end a streak of disappointing quarterly financial results. Analysts are debating the wisdom of the move. Several noted that Cisco is not a consumer-device vendor, and that trying to be one was […]

Cisco Systems, which has stumbled in the past several quarters with lagging sales numbers, reduced profits and weakened forecasts, is revamping much of its consumer unit, including shuttering its Flip video camera business and integrating its Umi personal video conferencing technology into its larger TelePresence business. The moves, announced April 12, come after several quarters […]

After more than a year of saber rattling, Intel officials have taken a significant step in their push into the mobile device space and in ramping up the competition with ARM Holdings, whose chip designs are found in most smartphones and tablets. At the Intel Developer Forum in China April 11, Intel officials unveiled its […]

Verizon officials are about to roll out a new digital media utility service that will leverage the company’s ongoing investments in its worldwide IP network to reduce the costs and burden for entertainment companies that deliver online content to customers through their televisions, smartphones and other mobile devices. Unveiled April 11 at the 2011 NAB […]

Alcatel-Lucent is joining rivals Cisco Systems, Avaya and Juniper Networks on the list of network fabric vendors. Network fabrics-or “mesh,” as Alcatel-Lucent officials refer to them-are becoming a key trend in the data center, offering resources a more flattened and virtualized networking infrastructure to connect everything from servers to storage devices. Such fabrics are fueling […]

Egenera, which already works with Dell and Fujitsu to get its PAN Manager software onto their blade servers, has now picked up Hewlett-Packard as a partner. Egenera announced April 7 that HP will offer PAN Manager on its Intel-based BladeSystem c-class servers, a move that will give HP’s BladeSystem customers more options when it comes […]

Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years-which will be spread out around the […]

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out a platform designed to enable businesses to mesh together and leverage the various methods they communicate, not only internally but also with customers. During the company’s Dynamic Tour 2011 event April 5, Alcatel-Lucent officials unveiled their OpenTouch suite of communications solutions that is built upon technologies introduced last year. OpenTouch is […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a lawyer and Wall Street trader with insider trading in connection with 11 proposed or completed corporate acquisitions, including some of the largest in recent years in the tech industry involving the likes of Intel, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard. SEC officials on April 6 said the two men and […]

Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers remains confident in the company’s strategy of expanding the role of the network in the modern technology environment. What’s ailing the $40 billion company is its execution, according to Chambers, and that is going to change. In a lengthy internal memo to employees that has since been posted […]

Intel is continuing its assault on Unix servers and mainframes with the release of its latest high-end Xeon processors, including chips that offer up to 10 cores. The latest missive came April 5, when Intel officials unveiled the Xeon E7 “Westmere EX” portfolio of chips, which they said offer 40 percent more performance than the […]

Texas Instruments is looking to become the world’s third largest semiconductor manufacturer with its $6.5 billion bid for National Semiconductor. If approved by regulators, the deal would give a combined TI-National Semiconductor $14.5 billion in revenues, pushing Toshiba-with its $13 billion-into fourth place, according to the analysts at IHS iSuppli. It also would bolster TI’s […]