Jeff Burt

Facebook and several other tech vendors, including Intel, Nokia and SK Telecom, earlier this year launched an effort to bring the open hardware principles of the company’s Open Compute Project to the telecommunications industry. Now the social media giant and the more than 300 members of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) are beginning to unveil […]

Samsung will spend more than $1 billion to boost chip production at its facilities in Austin, Texas, part of a larger strategy to spend almost $24 billion in capital expenditures following the company’s problems with its Galaxy Note7 smartphones. The money for the 19-year-old Texas facility will be used over the next eight months to […]

Networking technology provider Brocade Communications could be the next tech vendor to be sold in what’s becoming a busy season in the industry for acquisitions. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported that officials with Brocade—which offers everything from wired and wireless networking products to software-defined network (SDN) and network analytics technologies—are in advanced talks to sell […]

ARM is rolling out two chip cores that address the demand for greater immersive and interactive visual capabilities—including virtual and augmented reality—in their mobile devices. The company, which designs low-power chip architectures and then licenses those designs to such chip makers as Qualcomm and Samsung, on Oct. 31 unveiled the Mali-V61 video processing unit (VPU) […]

BroadSoft is building out its cloud communications portfolio by acquiring VoIP Logic, a company that delivers cloud services based on BroadSoft’s BroadWorks to service providers in the United States. Officials with BroadSoft said that VoIP Logic’s cloud-based wholesale business model will be added to their BroadCloud managed services lineup and will enable service providers to […]

CenturyLink is buying Level 3 Communications for $34 billion, a move that officials with both companies said will create a significantly larger player in the global telecommunications space. Bringing Level 3 into the fold will enable CenturyLink to expand its fiber optics and data services capabilities to enterprises and extend its reach with small businesses […]

A startup that is designing a processor aimed specifically at machine learning and artificial intelligence applications is getting a $30 million boost from a range of investors, including Samsung. Graphcore, which has been working for the past two years in Bristol, England, laying the groundwork for its upcoming intelligent processing unit (IPU), came out of […]

The numbers say the global PC market is still on the wane. System shipments have been on the decline for several years, a trend that continued in the third quarter when the numbers dropped by as much as 5.7 percent, according to industry analysts. However, OEMs are still putting a lot of time and resources […]

Ruckus Wireless wants to make it easier for organizations to manage the influx of devices that are accessing their corporate networks as the number of mobile workers continues to grow. Ruckus, a business unit of Brocade, this week introduced Cloudpath ES 5.0 software, which offers a range of features that deliver an integrated security and […]

Oracle has set a deadline of Nov. 4 for NetSuite shareholders to accept its $9.3 billion bid for the cloud software provider, and it may take that long to know for sure whether the deal will come off. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said this week in an interview on CNBC that the enterprise software giant […]

Service providers CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications reportedly are in merger talks in a deal that would create a larger and more competitive telecommunications company. Citing anonymous sources, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported that executives with the two companies are negotiating a deal that would being Level 3 into the CenturyLink fold. […]

The OpenPower Foundation has got traction in North America and last year unveiled efforts to grow in the Chinese market. Now the consortium launched by IBM three years ago is showcasing rapid growth in Europe. At the group’s inaugural OpenPower European Summit in Barcelona, Spain, this week, foundation members announced a series of OpenPower-based projects […]