Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is looking to bring the advantages of unified communications, which primarily are seen within individual companies, to dealings between businesses. Cisco is rolling out a new appliance and a protocol designed to make it easier for companies to communicate with their business partners, suppliers and customers via video conference calls rather than traditional […]

Intel is showing off its new high-end “Gulftown” gaming chip, the six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Intel officials previewed the chip March 10. The chip, the first six-core Intel chip for consumers, is built on the company’s 32-nanometer manufacturing process, and brings with it such features as […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers for more than a year has been preaching that the seemingly insatiable demand for network bandwidth will only grow as video, mobile devices and cloud computing become more prominent. Chambers reiterated that message March 9 when unveiling Cisco’s massive CRS-3 router, which promises a capacity of 322T bps, can support […]

CA is continuing to buy companies to build up its cloud computing capabilities, the latest acquisition being Nimsoft. CA officials announced the $350 million, all-cash acquisition of Nimsoft March 10, and said the deal is expected to close by the end of March. Nimsoft is the fifth cloud-centric company CA has purchased in the past […]

Don’t expect IT spending to increase too much in 2010, according to research firm Ovum. There will be some uptick in IT budgets for the year, but only in the 1 to 5 percent range, Ovum analysts said in a report March 9. In fact, most enterprises will see no change in their IT spending, […]

Avaya and Polycom are expanding their partnership to include integrated video, voice and collaborations offerings, the latest move in a quickly evolving unified communications market. The two companies March 9 announced plans to jointly develop and market a host of new, tightly integrated UC solutions based on Avaya’s SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based Aura UC platform […]

Online technology retailer Newegg has terminated the contract of one its suppliers, IPEX, which Newegg officials said had shipped them bogus Intel processors. The counterfeit processors, which reportedly numbered as much as 300, were first reported online March 5 by the Website HardOCP. Initially sources told the Website that D&H Distributing was the supplier that […]

Intel is investigating why more than 300 counterfeit Core i7-920 CPUs were shipped to reputable online technology retailer Newegg. Newegg reportedly received the 300 fake processors in a batch of about 2,000 CPUs shipped to them from a partner, D&H Distributing. Reports about at least one counterfeit chip began surfacing March 5, and some Websites […]

VMware is taking its desktop virtualization and cloud computing products on the road. VMware officials announced March 8 that they are packing such products as View for desktop virtualization, the vSphere virtualization platform and the vCenter Server virtualization management offering in a mobile data center that will travel to 150 cities in the United States […]

While the global semiconductor industry is poised to see significant recovery in 2010 when compared with the recession-riddled market in 2009, the increase in business will only be modest when looked at in perspective, according to research company iSuppli. In a report issued March 5, iSuppli analysts said they expect revenues in the worldwide semiconductor […]

Intel is continuing to push its Atom chip platform, initially designed for netbooks, into new areas, the latest being storage. At the CeBIT show held in Hannover, Germany, Intel on March 4 unveiled an Atom-based platform designed for networked storage devices used in smaller business offices, home offices and residences. The platform, which Intel officials […]

IBM researchers have taken their latest steps in their efforts to enable chips to communicate via pulses of light rather than copper wires, a transition that could boost the performance and speed of computers while greatly improving energy efficiency. IBM officials March 3 announced an advancement in the development of a nanophotonic avalanche photodetector. The […]