Jeff Burt

Increasing consumer demand and a rapidly expanding number of vendors will continue to fuel the fast-growing worldwide wearable device market, which IDC analysts say will see 38.2 percent growth this year and continue with double-digit gains through at least 2020. In a report this week, IDC analysts said there will be a proliferation of new […]

Lenovo is changing the leadership of its mobile device business as part of a larger reorganization within the company. Rick Osterloh, president of Motorola Mobility, oversaw much of the integration of Motorola into Lenovo after the systems maker bought the mobile device company from Google in 2014, is leaving Lenovo. He will be replaced by […]

ARM officials are continuing their push into the data center through an expanded partnership with chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. to develop a 7-nanometer FinFET chip manufacturing process. The two companies already are working together on 16nm and 10nm processes that have used ARM’s Artisan foundation physical IP. The development of a 7nm process […]

Intel officials for the past several years have been targeting the PC gaming market as a growth market for the chip maker’s broad product portfolio. The company has released numerous chips with the compute and graphics power for the increasingly sophisticated and power-hungry games, and the processor maker also hosts its Extreme Masters eSports tournament […]

Imagination Technologies is cutting another 200 jobs as officials accelerate the restructuring of the company that they first announced in February. The company, which supplies graphics chips to mobile device makers like Apple and has been trying to expand its reach into such areas as wearable devices and the data center, also will shed or […]

AT&T’s high-profile effort to transform its infrastructure into a software-defined environment is humming along. At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016 this week, John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T technology and operations, gave attendees an update on where the carrier stands with its multi-year Domain 2.0 project to embrace such technologies […]

The organizers of the Game Developer Conference 2016 this week for the first time brought a virtual-reality track to the show, and Advanced Micro Devices was among several companies that used it to establish their presence in the emerging market. The chip maker used the conference to announce that it is partnering with Toronto-based startup […]

Communications technology vendors Mitel and Polycom reportedly are in merger talks, an idea that was first floated several months ago by activist investor Elliott Management, which bought large stakes in both companies. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported that Mitel made the initial overture to Polycom, though the structure of such a deal had not yet […]

When Michael Dell in 2013 took his namesake company private, he spoke about the need to move out from under the thumb of Wall Street if he was going to accelerate the vendor’s transition from a PC maker to an end-to-end IT solutions and services provider. It’s difficult to make decisions and moves that might […]

Stealth.com, which specializes in industrial, rugged computers, is rolling out its latest waterproof, fanless computer designed for particularly harsh environments. The company’s WPC-725F is an Intel-powered water-tight system that comes in a small form factor that company officials said not only can withstand liquids but also chemicals, dust and dirt. The quiet system comes without […]

Lifesize is making it easier for people to collaborate using chat. The communications technology vendor is expanding the free chat functionality in its Lifesize Cloud service with the addition of group chat capabilities and improvements to the 1:1 chat feature. The goal is to give users a simple way to extend the chat functionality to […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise later this month will release a new hyperconverged offering aimed at the midmarket and enterprises with remote offices. The HC 380 is the latest offering in a growing hyperconverged infrastructure space that recently saw the entrance of Cisco Systems and a joint effort by Lenovo and Juniper Networks. It also adds to […]