Jeff Burt

Qualcomm, whose year got off to a rough start when Samsung decided not to use the chip maker’s new Snapdragon 810 processor in its Galaxy S6 smartphone, is now in the process of cutting 15 percent of its workforce and is considering splitting the company in two. After weeks of speculation about what direction the […]

Hewlett-Packard over the next dozen years will buy wind power to run all of its data centers in Texas, the latest move by a major tech company to increase the amount of renewable energy used in their operations. HP officials announced July 21 that the company has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with […]

Lifesize Communications is adding to its cloud video conferencing capabilities by offering a service that enables users to record, save and share their video calls and to house those recordings in a cloud-based personal video library. Recording and sharing video calls can be done on equipment that’s on the market, but it’s not an easy […]

The turmoil around mobile chip maker Qualcomm looks likely to continue amid reports that officials this week could announce job cuts and unveil the results of a strategic review that could include splitting up the company. Qualcomm executives are scheduled to announce fiscal third-quarter financial numbers July 22, and with that announcement could come decisions […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out the latest addition to its high-end A-Series processors that officials say will offer a strong experience for users running Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 operating system on their PCs. AMD unveiled the A8-7670K accelerated processing unit (APU) July 20, with officials saying the 10-core desktop chip—four CPU cores and six […]

IBM and National Instruments are among the newest companies to join the Open Interconnect Consortium, one of several industry groups working on open frameworks for the Internet of things. The two companies were among eight new members announced by the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) July 20, bringing the membership total to more than six dozen. […]

Dell is building out the support of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing solutions in its Dell Cloud Manager software offering. Version 11 of the solution, which is designed to give midsize and large enterprises a single tool to manage the deployment and use of distributed cloud services throughout the company, now supports Windows Azure Pack (WAP) […]

Logitech wants to make the collaboration experience easier and better by launching a program designed to bring greater integration with communications products from a number of other vendors. Logitech on July 20 rolled out the Logitech Collaboration Platform (LCP), which includes charter members Blue Jeans Network, BroadSoft, C2G, Vidyo, Zoom Communications and LifeSize Communication, a […]

A Microsoft official threw a scare into an already shaken PC industry earlier this month when he said system makers probably would not have Windows 10 systems available when the operating system is launched July 29. However, the confusion seems to have been cleared up, and now Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Acer appear primed to […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives were in New York in May to talk to financial analysts and journalists about their strategy for making the troubled chip maker consistently profitable. A key part of that plan calls for reducing AMD’s reliance on low-cost PCs and focusing its efforts in such markets as the data center, semicustom chips […]

Nvidia wants to make it easier for academic researchers to adopt the OpenACC standard for running parallel computing workloads. With the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) going on this week in Germany, Nvidia officials announced that the GPU maker was releasing its OpenACC Toolkit, a free offering that comes with an array of OpenACC parallel programming […]

European Union regulators are investigating Qualcomm, the world’s largest supplier of chips for mobile devices, for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market to illegally disadvantage competitors. The European Commission (EC)—the antitrust arm of the EU—announced July 16 that it is opening two investigations into Qualcomm’s business practices in the region regarding its 3G […]