Jeff Burt

Richard McBee knew what direction the market was moving in, and he knew how he wanted to get there. When McBee in 2011 took over as the CEO of Mitel, he soon began making changes to the unified communications (UC) technology vendor, from reorganizing the company’s business units to transforming its sales approach to revamping […]

Plexxi, one of a broad array of smaller startups in the growing network virtualization space, has raised another $35 million in funding that will be used to boost the company’s efforts in everything from sales and marketing to customer support and R&D. Plexxi officials announced the latest round of financing Sept. 14, saying it brings […]

Qualcomm officials want to bring their company’s expertise in mobile chips to the burgeoning consumer drone market. The company this week unveiled the Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, which brings together all the mobile functionality needed by the unmanned flying vehicles—not only the processing power, but also technologies for everything from navigation and 4K video to cameras […]

After weeks of pressure from French government officials and workers unions, Alcatel-Lucent slashed the separation agreement it had reached with former CEO Michel Combes, who left the company after negotiating its sale to rival Nokia Networks. Alcatel-Lucent’s officials said Sept. 11 that the company’s board of directors had decided to essentially cut in half the […]

Dell is planning to invest $125 billion in the China market over the next five years, the latest announcement by a top-tier U.S. tech vendor expanding their efforts in the lucrative market. CEO Michael Dell, in a visit to the country Sept. 10, said his company’s investment will contribute as much as $175 billion to […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller made headlines last month when they demonstrated at two security conferences how they were able to hack into a moving Jeep Cherokee, remotely taking control of the vehicle. Their hacks led to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to recall 1.4 million vehicles to fix the vulnerability, and put an even greater […]

Verizon officials are getting ready to kick off field trials of 5G wireless technology in 2016 even as most consumers and businesses are still embracing 4G LTE. The company announced Sept. 8 that it is working with a range of partners—including networking technology vendors Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson and Nokia Networks and chip makers Qualcomm […]

Google officials want to make it easier and less expensive for developers and businesses on the company’s cloud platform to move increasingly bandwidth-hungry Web and mobile apps to their end users. The search giant is partnering with four content-delivery network (CDN) providers to create what officials are calling the CDN Interconnect, which is part of […]

Advanced Micro Devices is creating a business unit for its broad array of graphics technologies, part of a larger move by company executives who see such market segments as gaming and immersive computing as keys to improving the chip maker’s fortunes. AMD officials on Sept. 9 announced the creation of the Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) […]

Michael Dell expects consolidation among vendors in a PC market that continues to see shipments decline worldwide. According to a report in Reuters, the chairman and CEO of his namesake company said during a roundtable discussion in India that the world’s top three PC makers—Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and his own firm, Dell—will be able to grab […]

Users of the diminutive Raspberry Pi mini-PC have always been able to connect to a display fairly easily, thanks to the device’s High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) port. However, it hasn’t always been convenient. Users would have to have a computer monitor or television around, and even if those are available, they aren’t always mobile. One […]

Verizon is adopting Cisco’s iWAN as the foundation of its software-defined WAN suite of services, part of the carrier’s larger initiative to bring network virtualization to its infrastructure. The new managed service, announced Sept. 8, will help organizations that increasingly are using the cloud to deliver applications and services and that are having to deal […]