Jeff Burt

Demand in both the corporate and consumer sectors helped Intel post a record fiscal quarter July 13, netting $2.9 billion on $10.8 billion in revenue in the second quarter. Intel’s success had much to do with demand for servers and PCs powered by the company’s latest processors, in particular the 2010 Core i PC chips […]

Polycom and BT are bulking up their communications offerings to leverage Microsoft’s plans for its Office Communications Server technologies. The two companies made their announcements during the first two days of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. Polycom introduced additions to its line of CX IP phones that offer native integration with Microsoft Communications […]

Some of the oil from the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico will migrate around the tip of Florida and make its way up the East Coast, according to the calculations from a supercomputer at an Intel campus in New Mexico. The Intel supercomputer, powered by 3,500 quad-core Xeon processors, has been running […]

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove has sparked a furious Internet debate with his viewpoints on how the United States can jump-start job growth. In a lengthy column in Bloomberg Businessweek July 1, Grove outlined his belief that the United States must rebuild its manufacturing sector if the country is to regain its capacity for creating […]

About one in six IT companies expect revenues in the second half of 2010 to come in higher than in the first six months of the year, according to a report released July 8 by CompTIA. According to CompTIA’s IT Industry Business Confidence Index, 60 percent of tech firms surveyed expect third- and fourth-quarter revenues […]

The marked fluctuation in the semiconductor market that started as the worldwide recession hit the industry in late 2008 and into 2009 will begin to normalize as the year moves on, according to market research firm IDC. In a report July 6, IDC analysts said the semiconductor market saw revenues drop 9.9 percent in 2009. […]

Robert Moffat, the former longtime IBM executive who pleaded guilty in March to federal securities and fraud charges for his role in a massive insider trading case, said his relationship with an ex-hedge fund manager was more about business than sex. In a detailed story about the case in Fortune magazine published July 6, Moffat, […]

IBM has built a supercomputer that is cooled by hot water. IBM has shipped the supercomputer, called “Aquasar,” to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich-or ETH Zurich-that contains the new cooling system. Aquasar, announced July 2, consumes up to 40 percent less energy than a similar air-cooled machine, and by using waste heat to […]

The semiconductor industry is continuing its uphill climb, according to market numbers released July 6. SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association) announced that sales in May grew to $24.7 billion, a 4.5 percent increase over April-when sales were $23.6 billion-and a 47.6 percent hike over the $16.7 billion in May 2009, when the worldwide recession was still […]

The number of mobile VOIP minutes that will be carried on 3G and 4G networks every year will double annually over the next five years, according to Juniper Research, which will be a boon to such companies as Skype and Nimbuzz. In a report issued July 1, Juniper analysts said the annual mobile VOIP (voice […]

Supercomputers that use accelerators-including graphics chips-along with traditional CPUs are gaining a growing share of the list of the world’s most energy-efficient systems. According to the Green500 list, released June 30 by the same group that creates the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, said the top eight supercomputers on the green list use […]

Verizon Business is about to launch customer field tests of a hosted unified communications service based on a new offering from Cisco Systems. The two-month trials, which will begin in July, will give businesses an alternative to on-premises UC solutions by delivering services via the cloud, according to Verizon Business officials. Verizon and Cisco made […]