Jeff Burt

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel’s AppUp application store for MeeGo and Windows applications is now out of beta, nine months after being introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show. Renee James, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, said during her keynote at the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 14 that in its beta run […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Dell later this year will release a convertible mobile device that can be either used as a tablet PC or reconfigured into a netbook-style machine complete with a keyboard. Dell executive David Zavelson showed off the 10-inch Inspiron Duo Sept. 14 during the morning keynote at the Intel Developer Forum here. It was one […]

Intel Labs Projects Aim for Better User Experience by Jeffrey Burt OASIS With OASIS (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System), RGD-D cameras can detect an item on a counter, assess the shape, color, depth, texture etc., and determine what the object is. In this case, it’s a slab of meat. Users can then open up a series […]

Ex-IBM executive Robert Moffat on Sept. 13 was sentenced to six months in prison for his role in a massive $25 million insider trading scandal. Moffat, who had spent 31 years with the technology giant and was senior vice president and group executive of IBM’s $20 billion Systems and Technology Group at the time of […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel CEO Paul Otellini is continuing his push to create a continuum of computing based on Intel Architecture, and said the company’s upcoming “Sandy Chip” processor is another step in that direction. In his opening keynote here at the Intel Developer Forum Sept. 13, Otellini talked about the transformation of his company from one […]

Intel’s next-generation “Sandy Bridge” processor microarchitecture will be a key topic of discussion at the Intel Developer Forum, which kicks off Sept. 13 in San Francisco. CEO Paul Otellini and Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Architecture Group, are expected to demonstrate the processor’s capabilities during their keynote addresses the first […]

ARM Holdings, whose chip designs already are found in most of the current smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android OS, is now looking to expand its reach into other areas. ARM officials Sept. 9 unveiled their next major chip design, the Cortex-A15, which had been code-named “Eagle.” The officials are promising […]

Speaking at the Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, in 2008, Dell CEO Michael Dell told the audience that his company was committed to growing its presence in the HPC space. Dell on Sept. 9 made its latest step into the space with a host of new hardware offerings, including the PowerEdge C6105, a rack-mount server […]

Cisco Systems and one of its distributors, Weston Group North America, will pay $48 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the federal authorities claiming the two companies overcharged on government contracts. The case against Cisco and Weston was the latest in a series of complaints filed against IT vendors for alleged illegal actions in […]

Mark Hurd, who resigned as CEO of Hewlett-Packard a month ago with a severance package of almost $40 million, reportedly will be paid $950,000 a year as Oracle’s new co-president, and could stand to make as much as $10 million in bonuses. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hurd also will be […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to make life easier for small and midsize businesses with a portfolio of products the company is calling Just Right IT. Unveiled Sept. 8, the Just Right IT offerings range from a server and desktop PCs to storage products, printers, networking and communications solutions, and management and virtualization software. The goal is […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been talking about challenging IBM as a full-service IT supplier since first broaching the idea of buying Sun Microsystems. Ellison has taken another step in that direction with the hiring of ex-HP President and CEO Mark Hurd, according to industry analysts. Hurd comes to Oracle with a strong background in […]