Jeff Burt

U.S. regulators are putting the tech industry on notice that security in the age of the Internet of things needs to be a priority. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled charges with Asus around complaints of critical security flaws in its wireless routers, issues that regulators said put hundreds of thousands of consumers at […]

Cisco Systems and EMC are looking to give service providers the infrastructure resources they need to embrace network virtualization as they try to manage the emerging challenges brought on by such trends as mobile computing, the Internet of things, security and the cloud. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 show Feb. 24, the two […]

Dell’s historic $67 billion bid for data storage giant EMC is beginning to get the approvals from antitrust agencies that it needs to move forward. The companies have received the OK from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and reports last week indicate that antitrust regulators in the European Union are prepared to give unconditional […]

A bulked-up Nokia is looking to use its new-found size and strength to become a significant player in the 5G and Internet of things (IoT) markets. The company is coming off the completion of its $16.6 billion acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent, a deal Nokia officials said would enable it to better compete with the likes […]

Embedded processors and the spaces they play in—from gaming to immersive computing to the Internet of things—was an important part of the roadmap Advanced Micro Devices executives laid out almost a year ago to leverage the resources they have to grow revenues and market share. Up until now, most of the attention has been around […]

Cisco Systems is making an aggressive push for service providers this week, promising new offerings and partnerships aimed at making it easier for carriers and telecommunications companies to remake their infrastructures to address such challenges as the skyrocketing growth of traffic on their networks and the need to find more revenue streams. At the Mobile […]

Cisco Systems, Intel and Ericsson are working together to create what officials for the companies are saying will be the industry’s first 5G router. The companies made the announcement Feb. 22 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 show in Barcelona, Spain, saying the router could help accelerate the pace of innovation around 5G, the […]

Intel officials want to establish the chip maker as a dominant player in the developing world of 5G networks, and are using the Mobile World Congress 2016 show this week to make that message clear to the industry. At the show, which runs through Feb. 25 in Barcelona, Spain, Intel is laying out a broad […]

Facebook officials want to apply the same principles behind its Open Compute Project to the telecommunications industry. The company is partnering with tech vendors such as Intel and Nokia and network operators like Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom to launch the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which aims to use the open-development philosophies that have driven […]

Intel and AT&T want to see how drones will run over LTE networks. The two companies will be at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 show this week in Barcelona, Spain, demonstrating a drone operating beyond line-of-sight and streaming video over the same LTE network from AT&T that connects smartphones and tablets. Most drones are […]

Juniper Networks and NEC are combining resources to create network virtualization offerings aimed at service providers and enterprises. The two companies will develop network-functions virtualization (NFV) solutions that bring together Juniper’s networking equipment and its virtual network functions (VNFs)—including the vMX routing platform and vSRX virtual firewall—with NEC’s Cloud System, an OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. In […]

ARM officials want the chip designer to play a significant role in upcoming 5G networks and next-generation storage systems. The company is introducing the real-time Cortex-R8 chip architecture that officials said will enable chip makers to create systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that offer lower latency, higher performance and better power efficiency that will be able to meet […]