Jeff Burt

Officials with Lenovo and Fujitsu confirmed that they are in talks regarding the future of Fujitsu’s PC business, but what the result of those negotiations will be remains unclear. The companies said in a joint statement that Lenovo, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Client Computing—the subsidiary created by Fujitsu in February to house the PC business—that they […]

Qualcomm is buying rival chip maker NXP Semiconductors in a $47 billion bid to rapidly expand beyond its core mobile device space and challenge Intel in such important emerging markets as the internet of things. After weeks of speculation, Qualcomm and NXP officials on Oct. 27 announced the largest deal in the chip space, surpassing […]

Semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics is teaming with two other tech vendors on the development of the next generation of its Synergy internet of things platform that is based on ARM’s new ARMv8-M chip architecture. Officials with Renesas, Express Logic and IAR Systems are showcasing the enhanced platform this week at ARM’s TechCon 2016 event, demonstrating […]

Samsung Electronics is adding new modules and management capabilities to its Artik platform for the internet of things in an effort to better help organizations more quickly build out their IoT projects. The introduction of the new additions to Artik—which was unveiled last year—and the expansion of the Artik Cloud were made this week at […]

In the world of online video piracy, the streaming of live events is increasingly becoming among the most difficult challenges. Where once streaming was low resolution and delivered through websites that were rife with malware and advertising, they now offer a better user experience—high-definition resolution on multiple screens and multiple devices and with a broad […]

Lenovo is arming new desktop and notebook PCs with Advanced Micro Devices’ latest chips aimed at business systems. At the Canalys Channels Forum in China, AMD officials showed off two new Lenovo commercial notebooks and a desktop PC powered by the chip maker’s 7th Generation Pro accelerated processing units (APUs), formerly code-named “Bristol Ridge Pro” […]

Chip rivals Intel and ARM are making deeper pushes into the increasingly competitive internet of things arena. At the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25, Intel officials unveiled the latest iteration of its low-power Atom processors, the E3900 series (pictured), which is aimed at IoT applications and comes with greater levels of […]

Pexip officials are enabling organizations to scale their enterprise collaboration capabilities even when demand spikes to outpace capacity. With the latest release of Pexip Infinity V13 collaboration software platform, businesses can burst to Amazon Web Services when the number of users on their conferencing systems reach the maximum capacity. Pexip officials said this is a […]

Virtustream, the cloud computing company that now is part of the larger post-EMC-deal Dell Technologies, has been on something of a wild ride over the past 18 months or so. The company, which was founded in 2009 as a cloud infrastructure provider for the big, complex mission-critical business applications that run in almost every organization […]

Cumulus Networks is launching an online marketplace that features products created by third parties that are built on the vendor’s Linux-based networking operating system. The Cumulus Networks Solutions Marketplace is a central repository for a broad range of offerings and makes it easier for network and cloud engineers to standardize their system architectures by helping […]

The focus of last week’s Dell EMC World 2016 show was largely on enterprise IT, which shouldn’t come as a surprise given the newly combined company’s strengths in such areas as servers, data storage, virtualization and the cloud. But officials with Dell Technologies made sure to stress that despite the continued shrinking global market, PCs […]

Two key players in the open-standards efforts around network virtualization will merge next year, bringing some consolidation to an area where over the past several years there has been a proliferation of standards groups. Officials with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) this week announced that the two organizations will become […]