Jeff Burt

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is teaming up with technology partner dbMotion to create ways of making electronic medical records more readily available to both physicians and patients. UPMC officials on March 2 announced that the partnership had created an application enabling physicians to receive critical patient information on their BlackBerry smartphones. Using the […]

Fujitsu is coming out with a desktop virtualization offering based on Pano Logic’s zero-client solution. The Fujitsu Zero Client computing platform, announced March 2 at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, will launch later in the month, according to the two companies. Fujitsu’s VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) product is a hardware and software platform that […]

IBM is unveiling a new family of x86 servers designed to enable enterprises to scale the memory of their virtualized data center environments without having to buy new systems. At the CeBIT show in Germany March 2, IBM is announcing the first of its eX5 servers sporting the vendor’s new fifth-generation X-Architecture chip, which will […]

Cisco Systems is bringing together its TelePresence video collaboration technology and unified communications products to create a platform to enable better patient care in virtual settings. Cisco announced its HealthPresence platform March 1 at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) event in Atlanta. The platform is designed to enable greater doctor-patient interaction when […]

Sean Maloney, an Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, is taking a leave of absence from the company. Maloney suffered a stroke at his home, Intel officials said in a statement March 1. Intel expects that Maloney will be recuperating for several months, after which time he will resume […]

Dell is working with the American Medical Association to make it easier for medical professionals and organizations to adopt and implement health care IT. In a partnership announced March 1 at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) event in Atlanta, Dell and the AMA said they want to make it easier for physicians […]

Intel has rolled out a faster version of its Atom chip, even as reports of devices sporting even newer Atoms come out of the CeBIT 2010 technology show in Germany. Intel announced March 1 that the new Atom N470 offers many of the same capabilities as the current N450 “Pine Trail” chip, though it runs […]

Networking gear vendor Force 10 Networks is looking to take advantage of the split between Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Force 10 officials are kicking off a promotion designed to convince HP resellers to offer Force 10 networking products as alternatives to HP’s ProCurve networking devices or, more importantly, Cisco’s offerings. The program, launched Feb. 24 […]

Nortel Networks, which has sold off significant parts of its business since filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, is now selling its voice-over-IP unit. Genband, a small company based in Plano, Texas, has agreed to buy Nortel’s VOIP business for $182 million, Nortel announced Feb. 24. Nortel officials said they expect to close the […]

A week ago, executives with both Hewlett-Packard and Dell, while talking about their latest quarterly financial numbers, pointed to the increase in x86 server sales in the final few months of 2009. HP saw a 27 percent revenue increase in its industry-standard server business in the quarter, while Dell saw server revenues grow 26 percent. […]

Like other sectors of the tech industry, the global service provider router market showed continuing recovery in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to research company Dell’Oro Group. In a report issued Feb. 22, Dell’Oro said the sales of routers for service providers jumped 15 percent over the third quarter, to $2 billion. It was […]

Cisco Systems reportedly is working with several major service providers to develop an ultrafast broadband network. Cisco’s move in some ways mirrors a recent move of Google, which on Feb. 10 said it plans to build broadband networks that run at 1G bps in several regions around the United States. However, unlike Google-which was seen […]