Jeff Burt

Intel at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year unveiled the Compute Stick, a PC-on-a-stick device that is about the size of a normal USB drive and essentially lets people take their PC wherever they go. Now the device reportedly is landing on a number of online shopping sites, including Amazon and Newegg. There […]

Dell is rolling out new network switches aimed at small and midsize businesses that often have the same challenges as their larger enterprise counterparts but with fewer resources and expertise. The tech vendor is offering a new family of 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10GbE managed switches that are easy to configure and troubleshoot and come […]

Intel and Broadcom are putting a focus on enabling secure and mobile payments as the Internet of things continues to grow. Intel is partnering with European payment solutions provider Ingenico Group to develop a tablet that will support near-field communication (NFC) and Eurocard, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip cards—payment methods that banks use to help […]

Hewlett-Packard, just weeks after getting court approval on a deal to settle shareholder lawsuits around its controversial $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy Software almost four years ago, is now suiting Autonomy’s former CEO and CFO for more than $5 billion. The move adds to the 2-year-old tangled legal history stemming from the Autonomy buy in […]

The rapidly changing demands that enterprise and cloud applications are putting on enterprise and hyperscale networks for more speed and better performance helped drive record sales for Ethernet switches last year, according to industry analysts. Infonetics Research analysts said in a research report this week that sales in 2014 hit $21.7 billion, a 5 percent […]

The ONOS Project, which rolled out the first release of its open-source software-defined network operating system in December 2014, is unveiling the second release with an eye toward enabling users to better measure their network environments. The latest release of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS)—dubbed Blackbird—includes a set of metrics for evaluating the capabilities […]

The Thread Group and ZigBee Alliance are working together to enable ZigBee’s application layer protocols to run over Thread-based networks, a move that marks the latest step in streamlining a highly fragmented Internet of things market. The two groups are among more than a half dozen that are working on various aspects of interoperability standards […]

Advanced Micro Devices will have to face an investor lawsuit that accuses the chip maker of touting a processor launched in 2011 even though officials knew of problems that forced the vendor eventually to take a $100 million inventory write-down. According to a Reuters report, a U.S. District Court judge ruled this week that the […]

You can already buy almost anything on Amazon, and usually with a single click. Now the online retail giant is making even that easier. Amazon already offers single-click shopping on its Website, and last year launched a small handheld device—the Dash—through which buyers can order products by scanning them or saying their names. If even […]

The future of collaboration technology continues to be based in the cloud. Research reports issued by industry analysts this week indicated that the cloud will be the key driver in the growth of both unified communications (UC) and video conferencing as businesses look for more flexible and cost-effective ways to deal with such trends as […]

Cisco Systems is bolstering its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) efforts by acquiring Embrane, a startup whose products are designed to enable organizations to rapidly provision network services. Cisco’s ACI, which is the company’s answer to the growing software-defined networking (SDN) trend, uses a combination of software and hardware to create networking infrastructures that can be […]

Federal regulators are claiming that Polycom’s former CEO used almost $200,000 in company money for personal expenses such as meals, entertainment, trips and gifts. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charge Polycom with having inadequate internal controls and with failing to inform investors of ex-CEO Andrew Miller’s personal perks. Polycom agreed to pay […]