Jeff Burt

The Federal Trade Commission will take at least another two weeks to work on a settlement with Intel over antitrust issues. Commissioners in a statement July 20 said they needed more time to considered a proposed settlement hammered out by lawyers for both sides. Reports of the proposed settlement began to surface July 19. The […]

Dell will pay $100 million and CEO Michael Dell will pay $4 million to settle investigations by federal regulators into accounting issues surrounding the computer maker’s relationship with Intel. Dell and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement July 22, six days after company officials announced they had given the SEC a settlement proposal. […]

Forrester Research analysts are increasingly optimistic about the growth of IT spending in the United States and around the world in the second half of 2010, despite the economic problems in Europe that have caused other analyst companies to reduce their expectations for the rest of the year. In a July 21 report, Forrester analyst […]

Unisys is creating a managed cloud computing lineup based on its ClearPath line of mainframes. Unisys officials introduced the first offering July 22, the ClearPath Cloud Development and Test Solution, aimed at businesses looking to develop and test applications for ClearPath systems. The goal of the ClearPath Cloud Solutions initiative is to give businesses access […]

When Avaya officials last year announced their intention to buy struggling Nortel Networks’ enterprise business for $915 million, both they and some analysts believed that would push the company toward the top of the enterprise telephony market. And that’s a market that includes the likes of technology heavyweight Cisco Systems. Both Avaya and analysts estimated […]

Intel reportedly has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which in December sued the giant chip maker over business practices regulators said unfairly stifled competition. According to a July 19 report by Reuters that quoted an unnamed source close to the FTC, the proposed settlement would not include a monetary fine of Intel, […]

Two months after unveiling a host of new virtualization management solutions at their CA World 2010 show, company officials are now releasing the offerings. CA Technologies on July 19 announced the general release of four products in the CA Virtual portfolio that were talked about at the event in May, as well as a fifth […]

The first step in Motorola’s planned split occurred July 19, when Nokia Siemens Network announced it was buying Motorola’s telecommunications equipment business for $1.2 billion. The next step will happen in early 2011, when the rest of the company splits in two, with one company comprising Motorola’s mobile devices and television set-top boxes, and the […]

Dell executives have proposed settlement plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a five-year accounting investigation by the federal agency. The company announced the update July 16. According to Dell, staff members at the SEC have taken the proposed settlements from the company and Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and will recommend the […]

Dell Services is teaming up with Liquidware Labs to make it easier for businesses to make the migration to virtual desktop environments. Dell Services officials said July 15 that they will leverage Liquidware Labs’ Stratusphere and ProfileUnity products to help assess a business’s existing desktop environment, migrate user data and documents onto virtual desktops, and […]

Advanced Micro Devices followed rival Intel’s announcement of record second-quarter financial numbers with strong results of its own, though its high revenues were tempered by a net loss of $43 million. AMD officials announced second-quarter revenues of $1.65 billion, up 40 percent from the same period in 2009, driven in large part by strong sales […]

The decision by a major Internet provider in Portugal to tap Tivoli software for a platform consolidation project is an example of one of the directions IBM is pursuing with the mobility strategy Big Blue officials unveiled in June. During a June 16 event celebrating the opening of a new IBM Lab just north of […]