Jeff Burt

Avaya was one of the biggest winners in the 2009 fire sale that was Nortel Networks. The communications technology vendor bought Nortel’s enterprise business, which includes Nortel’s UC (unified communications) products. Avaya on Dec. 18 completed the acquisition, which analysts at the time of the deal’s announcement in September said put Avaya up at the […]

Wyse Technology is putting Intel’s Atom processor into mobile thin-client devices. Wyse officials said the X90cw thin client is aimed at mobile workers looking to take advantage of the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing. Wyse, which announced the device Jan. 13, is demonstrating the X90cw at the British Education and Training Technology show in […]

The Obama administration’s push for subsidized electronic health records has entered a new phase, with the public getting two months to comment on recently proposed regulations. However, some physicians are saying that a key requirement is missing and are pressing the federal Health & Human Services Department to add it in. The doctors are looking […]

Intel finished up a good 2009 with a very strong fourth quarter, helped by a mix of new products and more efficient, lower-cost manufacturing. In reporting fourth-quarter financial numbers that included $10.6 billion in revenue and a net income of $2.3 billion, Intel officials Jan. 14 pointed to a host of new 32-nanometer PC and […]

Advanced Micro Devices is bringing the capabilities of its ATI Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics cards to mainstream systems. AMD on Jan. 14 rolled out its ATI Radeon HD 5670 card, which puts features offered in its higher-end graphics offering-such as support for Microsoft DirectX 11 and AMD’s ATI Eyefinity technology-into a product that […]

Siemens Enterprise Communications Group is partnering with Shared Technologies to help businesses make the move to a unified communications environment. The five-year partnership is aimed at offering customers best practices for taking advantage of what business communications technologies they have in place now, and also to provide them a road map for migrating to a […]

Intel officials are hitting back at the Federal Trade Commission, saying the agency has little understanding of the microprocessor business and that its lawsuit against the chip maker contradicts established antitrust laws. In their 25-page official response to the lawsuit filed by the FTC in December, Intel officials strongly defend their business practices, saying that […]

The expanded partnership between Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft that was announced Jan. 13 is part of a growing trend of vendors bringing together hardware and software assets to give customers a tightly integrated offering to handle a specific application or service. Vendors are bringing together hardware and software assets to give customers more tightly integrated, easily […]

Just over a year after introducing his company’s Smarter Planet strategy, Sam Palmisano, IBM’s chairman, president and CEO, is pitching the success-and concerns-of the initiative. Speaking to business and civic leaders Jan. 12 at the Chatham House in London, Palmisano cited successes of the Smarter Planet push, from reduced traffic congestion in some cities to […]

After a difficult two years, including a sharp decline of 8.2 percent in the United States and 8.9 percent worldwide in 2009, IT spending is poised for a strong rebound, said industry analyst company Forrester Research. According to a report released Jan. 12, worldwide IT spending in 2010 should increase 6.6 percent in the United […]

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out an enhanced entry-level M3000 server that officials say can be used to consolidate multiple low-end systems to save money and space. The upgraded M3000, announced Jan. 12, is a single-socket system now powered by the new quad-core 2.7GHz SPARC64 VII processor. The new chip not only has a […]

IBM just wrapped up its 17th consecutive year as the company with the most patents, and now is ready to help customers handle their intellectual property. IBM officials said Jan. 12 that they are now going to be giving customers access to Big Blue’s IP and patent processes and in-house portfolio management software, a move […]