Jeff Burt

Nvidia officials are hoping to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence through a new program designed to give startups in the space access to the chip maker’s deep learning technologies and expertise. The Nvidia Inception Program, announced June 8, is aimed at entrepreneurs who are starting new companies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), […]

The already-bleak outlook for PCs this year could become even worse, according to analysts with IDC. The market research firm on June 9 revised its 2016 outlook for the struggling global PC market, saying the decline in shipments could hit 7.3 percent over last year, about 2 percent lower than original expectations. In a statement, […]

Qualcomm officials over the past year have been making an aggressive push into the emerging connected car space, and they are taking their next step with a reference platform based on a broad array of the company’s technologies. The chip maker on June 8 introduced the Qualcomm Connected Car Reference Platform, which officials said will […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making a concentrated push to be the infrastructure, analytics and security provider for enterprises’ Internet of things efforts. At the company’s Discover 2016 show June 8 in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) officials unveiled two new converged systems that the company said will not only bring the analytics and security […]

Midokura raised another $20.4 million in financing for its network virtualization technologies as the company looks to grow in a highly competitive market. The Series B funding, announced June 8, came from Japanese firm Simplex and current investors Innovation Network Corp. of Japan and Allen Miner, who also is on the company’s board of directors. […]

Polycom has received a revised offer from an unnamed private equity firm looking to buy the video conferencing technology vendor. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) June 8, Polycom officials said the revised bid from the entity previously referred to as “Sponsor 1” puts the price for the company at about […]

Four Cisco Systems executives best known for leading the company’s unique “spin-in” strategy that led to the development of products including its answer to software-defined networking have now become the latest officials to leave the giant networking vendor. Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani—who had been nicknamed “MPLS” because of their initials […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials want to get open-source developers involved early with the development of the company’s reworking of data center computer architectures that they are calling the Machine. At the tech vendor’s Discover 2016 conference in Las Vegas June 7, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched an open-source community page that will give developers access […]

The rapidly increasing number of Internet users worldwide and the proliferation of personal devices and machine-to-machine connections will drive steep growth in global IP traffic, which will almost triple over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems officials. According to the networking vendor’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) for 2015 to 2020, IP traffic […]

EMC shareholders next month will get the chance to vote on Dell’s proposed $67 billion bid for the storage vendor. EMC officials have set July 19 as the date for the special meeting, which will begin at 10 a.m., according to the company. The meeting will take place at EMC’s headquarters in Hopkinton, Mass. The […]