Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices officials gave the industry a glimpse of their upcoming “Llano” processor, part of the company’s Fusion initiative that integrates computing and graphics capabilities onto a single piece of silicon. AMD on Oct. 19 gave a demonstration of what the APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) can do during the company’s AMD Technical Forum and […]

LifeSize Communications has built a reputation as a video conferencing endpoint maker aimed at the SMB space. Now the company is expanding its offerings beyond the endpoint, while continuing to keep its focus on smaller businesses. LifeSize, owned by Logitech, on Oct. 20 rolled out its first video conferencing bridge with a modular design that […]

Cisco Systems over the past few year has put a large bet on video over the Internet, spending tens of millions of dollars during that time to build up its offerings and buy such companies as WebEx, Scientific-Atlantic and Pure Digital. All this is being done in anticipation of an expected explosion of video-based Internet […]

Unisys is bringing its own virtualization technology to its mainframe systems, giving businesses what one company official called an “enterprise-class” virtualization solution. Unisys on Oct. 19 unveiled its sPar (secure partitioning) technology on its Intel-based ClearPath mainframes, offering enterprises greater and more consistent performance and security in virtualized environments. That’s crucial, given the types of […]

AT&T is pitching Apple’s iPad tablet PC as a business tool. The wireless carrier announced Oct. 15 that it plans to sell WiFi and 3G iPad models directly to businesses as part of a larger initiative aimed at helping customers save money and increase productivity. The initiative, which will begin Oct. 28, will include “attractive […]

Hewlett-Packard is now the second-largest Ethernet port vendor, thanks to its $2.7 billion acquisition earlier this year of 3Com. According to market research firm In-Stat, HP in the second quarter jumped over D-Link to grab the second-place spot behind Cisco Systems in total Ethernet port shipments. In the report released Oct. 14, In-Stat analysts said […]

Intel may be moving aggressively into the tablet PC market, but rival Advanced Micro Devices will take a slower approach, according to its CEO. However, when AMD does make its move within the next few years, it will come with processors packing high performance, low power consumption, and great graphics and video capabilities, CEO Dirk […]

Intel officials in August warned the industry that weakening consumer PC sales in the third quarter threatened what had been an extremely strong year for Intel and its competitors. However, corporate spending on technology helped Intel grow revenues to $11.1 billion, the first time they had reached the $11 billion mark. Revenues grew 18 percent […]

Appro is expanding its supercomputing hardware portfolio with offerings targeting the high-frequency trading space and oil and gas market. Appro on Oct. 12 unveiled the dual-socket HF1 server, which includes overclocked Intel Xeon 5600 “Westmere” processors and a liquid-cooling system that is designed to create the kind of high-power, low-latency environment that traders need for […]

Intel is going to aggressively pursue the burgeoning tablet market, despite concerns from some industry observers that the giant chip maker is not doing enough in the space. Speaking to analysts and journalists during a conference call to announce Intel’s third-quarter financial numbers, CEO Paul Otellini praised Apple for reinvigorating the tablet market with the […]

Cisco Systems made its much-anticipated push deeper into the consumer space Oct. 6 with its Cisco Umi home telepresence system. The pricey offering brings Cisco into closer competition with video communication vendor Skype and its free service, and with a host of low-cost webcam makers. But Cisco officials believe the high quality of Umi (pronounced […]

Buyers are going to have to wait until next year for smartphones and most tablets running the MeeGo operating system from Intel and Nokia. Despite comments from Nokia officials throughout the year that smartphones running the open-source OS would be on the market in 2010, an Intel official now is saying those devices won’t debut […]