Jeff Burt

Officials at Imagination Technologies, which supplies graphics chips to mobile device makers like Apple and has sought to expand its reach into such areas as wearables and the data center, are looking to restructure the company after announcing it will take an operating loss for the year and that its 18-year CEO has resigned. The […]

Avaya is rolling out new offerings aimed at making it easier for midmarket companies to transition their communications and contact center operations to the cloud. The company on Feb. 8 unveiled two solutions that Avaya is making available through channel partners and that are designed to enable end users to make the move to the […]

Logitech officials see an opportunity to fill a need in the video conferencing space between expensive, high-end systems and PCs equipped with a Webcam. The company on Feb. 8 unveiled its new Logitech Group offering, which combines a high-definition video camera with a full duplex speakerphone and is aimed at groups of up to 14 […]

BroadSoft is bolstering its cloud communications business with the acquisition of Transera, which makes cloud-based contact center software for large enterprises and smaller businesses. BroadSoft officials announced the deal Feb. 8, saying that having Transera in the fold will position the company well in the growing contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) space. No details on the price […]

MIT researchers believe they have found a way to bring deep-learning capabilities to smartphones. At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) last week, the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced a 168-core chip that they said will enable smartphones and other mobile and embedded devices to run artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms locally, […]

Intel Opens the Doors to Its Own IT Environment Intel sheds light on the technologies, from chips to systems to software, it uses for its own business and how they have increased efficiency and cut costs. A Global IT Environment Intel employs 6,319 IT professionals to support 104,820 workers at 153 sites in 72 countries. […]

This week, Dell pushed its security ambitions even further with the announcement of a new post-boot BIOS verification solution aimed at protecting Dell’s commercial PCs from malware during the boot process. Dell said the post-boot BIOS verification capabilities will be integrated into Dell commercial PCs that come with the purchase of an Endpoint Security Suite […]

Intel officials last year promised to spend $300 million over five years to increase the diversity of its workforce with the eventual goal of having full representation of women and under-represented minorities at all levels of the company by 2020. This week, company executives unveiled what the giant chip maker accomplished in the first year […]

SDN Is No Longer Just About the Hype, Quinstreet Survey Finds The software-defined networking market is moving beyond the hype, with more businesses using or planning to use SDN in the near future, a Quinstreet survey finds. Planning for a Future With SDN Thirty-nine percent of the 466 IT professionals surveyed said they either are […]

Midokura and Pluribus Networks want to bring greater management and analytics to virtualized network environments. Both vendors this week unveiled new offerings that aim to give users greater visibility into their software-defined networking (SDN) traffic and tools for managing and gaining greater insight into that traffic. Midokura unveiled the latest generation of its Midokura Enterprise […]

Cisco Systems officials are looking to significantly upgrade the tech vendor’s capabilities in the Internet of things with the planned $1.4 billion acquisition of Jasper Technologies, a private company that has built an IoT platform that makes it easier for enterprises to connect their products through the cloud. Executives for both companies announced the deal […]

Google officials reportedly are getting ready to throw their support behind Qualcomm’s efforts to bring ARM-based 64-bit processors to data center servers. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported that Google executives at an investor event next week will commit the giant tech vendor to using the upcoming Qualcomm systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) if they meet particular performance metrics. […]