Jeff Burt

After more than a week of speculation about its future-including reports of interest from Cisco Systems and Microsoft-VOIP vendor Jajah is being bought by Telefonica Europe. Telefonica, known better by the name O2, announced Dec. 23 that it is buying the smaller Silicon Valley company for $207 million in cash. Telefonica officials said adding Jajah’s […]

IBM is looking to help health care businesses put their medical records into a digital format while they wait for federal stimulus funds to become available. IBM announced Dec. 22 that its lending unit, IBM Global Financing, has signed new financing agreements with four EHR (electronic health records) providers to help them pay for their […]

More than a month after closing the deal on a $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems, executives from Dell went before analysts and reporters to tout the deal’s ability to help Dell expand beyond its systems-making roots. During an hourlong Webcast Dec. 16, the Dell officials spoke of the potential financial boost (about $7.5 billion […]

Intel is rolling out a new Atom platform that will include integrated graphics capabilities and memory controller, a move that company officials say will lead to better performance, energy efficiency and new designs of both netbooks and entry-level desktop PCs. The new chips will begin to appear in systems in January, Intel said Dec. 21. […]

It was early in 2009, as Congress debated what would turn out to be a $787 billion spending plan to help the ailing economy, that Sheryl Abshire and her colleagues at the Calcasieu Parish public school system in Louisiana started making plans. “When we saw that there was an opportunity for public school districts [to […]

Avaya has completed its $900 million acquisition of bankrupt Nortel Network’s enterprise business, a deal that analysts say will push Avaya ahead of Cisco Systems in the enterprise telephony market. With Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions business in the fold, Avaya, which announced the closing of the deal Dec. 18, will have about 25 percent of the […]

Once it gets Sun Microsystems under its wing, Oracle will not compete in the high-volume, low-margin server market, ceding that space to Hewlett-Packard and Dell, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Instead, the software giant will focus Sun’s SPARC/Solaris and Intel-based systems on the high-end server market and as the basis for Oracle’s converged data […]

Cisco Systems has completed its $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile infrastructure vendor Starent Networks, which will become a key part of Cisco’s new Mobile Internet Technology Group. Cisco announced the completion of the deal Dec. 18, a day after the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission gave their OK to the acquisition, and a […]

Hewlett-Packard is enhancing the performance and capacity of its high-end Integrity NonStop servers, one of the ways the company is noting the 35th anniversary of the systems. The NonStops are part of HP’s high-end offerings that offer mainframe-like capabilities and are powered by Intel’s Itanium processor. The upgrades, announced Dec. 17, include the introduction of […]

NEW YORK-Intel is preparing to launch a number of new Core processors for desktops and notebooks at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in January. At small events here and in San Francisco Dec. 17, Intel officials gave reporters a taste of what the chip maker will launch at the CES, which runs Jan. 7-10, […]

Intel’s $1.25 billion settlement last month with rival Advanced Micro Devices apparently has done little to keep regulators from investigating the chip maker’s business practices. The Federal Trade Commission announced Dec. 16 that it is suing Intel for what regulators say is anticompetitive behavior that Intel has been exhibiting for more than a decade, first […]

Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier for business telecommunications service providers to realize the benefits of cloud computing. HP on Dec. 16 announced three new software offerings that officials say also will help reduce the challenge of keeping costs in line and decrease risks, such as noncompliance and human errors. Cloud computing offers the promise […]