Jeff Burt

The use of video conferencing and collaboration will have a significant impact on the health care industry and on patient care over the next decade, according to a survey sponsored by Intel. The study, presented May 18 at the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting in San Antonio, found that 89 percent of health care decision […]

Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications offerings using currently established standards. Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) include Juniper Networks and Logitech, which late last year bought video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. Jeff Rodman, co-founder and CTO at […]

CA Technologies is adding to its 18-month-old Mainframe 2.0 initiative with a new set of tools to simplify the management of the massive systems and to make it easier to attract a younger generation of programmers to the mainframe. At the CA World 2010 show in Las Vegas May 18, CA officials unveiled Mainframe Chorus, […]

Oracle is rolling out a new Sun Netra modular system aimed at the telecommunications industry, the latest step in Oracle’s efforts to rejuvenate Sun Microsystems’ hardware line. The Sun Netra 6000, announced May 18 at the TM Forum Management World show, in Nice, France, offers the same design as the Sun Blade 6000 modular system, […]

Hewlett-Packard has plans for Palm’s WebOS mobile operating system that go well beyond smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Web-connected printers. During a conference call with analysts and reporters to announce fiscal second-quarter 2010 results May 18, HP President and CEO Mark Hurd said that while he certainly wants to grow Palm’s smartphone business, the […]

Nvidia’s efforts to push graphics chip technology into mainstream computing received a significant boost May 18 when IBM announced that the newest version of its iDataPlex server will run on both traditional computing chips and GPUs from Nvidia. The announcement marks the first time a top-tier systems vendor has made the move to offer a […]

CA Technologies is expanding its cloud computing and virtualization management capabilities through a host of new and enhanced products, as well as an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems. At CA World 2010 in Las Vegas May 17, CA Technologies officials unveiled new and enhanced management software offerings that give IT administrators robust capabilities to manage […]

Juniper Networks officials plan to continue flattening the data center networking infrastructure as they move toward a single-tiered offering starting sometime in 2011. During a news conference and Webcast May 17, Juniper executives outlined the company’s 3-2-1 strategy, saying they are anticipating the collapse of the networking infrastructure to a single layer in 2011 through […]

Intel and Infineon Technologies are the subjects of conflicting acquisition rumors. In a report May 17, the German daily newspaper Financial Times Deustchland said that Intel is pursuing buying Infineon’s wireless chip business. Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper said executives with the two companies are in talks on a deal. However, hours later, Dow Jones […]

Video collaboration vendor Vidyo aims to make it easier for health care providers and organizations to use telepresence technology in their day-to-day work. Vidyo is rolling out VidyoHealth, a telemedicine video conferencing product that enables health care providers to user the Internet and other general-purpose IP networks to communicate with other doctors and with patients. […]

Skype is expanding the capabilities of its video communications technology by enabling users to hold a conference with up to five people. The Skype 5.0 beta for Windows, which offers the group video calling capability, became available May 13. It is being offered as a free download. Currently, Skype lets users initiate calls to only […]

Hewlett-Packard officials say they want to help enterprises shift more of their IT spending away from operations and toward innovation. HP is rolling out a number of products and services designed to enable businesses to reduce the operating costs in their data centers-through best practices and technology-so that more money is freed up for projects […]