Jeff Burt

Ericsson and Nokia are getting new products ready for next year that officials with both companies say will push telecommunications companies closer to creating 5G wireless networks. In fact, Ericsson executives said last week that the addition of a 5G NR radio for massive MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) support combined with other 5G technologies […]

Contact center specialist Genesys is buying rival Interactive Intelligence for about $1.4 billion, the latest move in a unified communications space that is undergoing rapid change as businesses push to move their collaboration and customer experience environments to the cloud. The companies announced the deal this week, with officials from both saying it will combine […]

Avaya is adding greater security and resiliency capabilities in its unified communications offering for smaller businesses that company officials say are seeing an increase in the number of attacks. The company this week unveiled Avaya IP Office release 10, which includes built-in signaling and media encryption between endpoints and unified communications (UC) clients that will […]

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips aimed at the wearable device market are powering the latest smartwatches from Fossil Group. At the IFA 2016 show in Berlin this week, officials with both companies announced that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), which were first introduced in February, are powering both the Fossil Q Marshal and Fossil Q Wander […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials reportedly are negotiating with investment firm Thoma Bravo to sell its software business, the latest step in an ongoing story that started earlier this summer. According to a Reuters report citing unnamed sources, Thoma Bravo is one of several private equity firms to make bids on HPE’s software assets, coming in […]

Qualcomm officials are introducing a reference platform for virtual reality headsets that they say will free users from having to use a smartphone or exterior sensors or to be tethered to a PC. At the IFA 2016 show in Berlin Sept. 1, the company unveiled the Snapdragon VR820, a head-mounted display (HMD) that will be […]

Intel’s Kaby Lake Chips Designed to Drive Thinner, Lighter PCs Here’s a look at Intel’s Kaby Lake 7th Generation Core Processors, designed to help spur the development of PCs for the so-called “immersive internet.” Introducing Kaby Lake Navin Shenoy, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG), holds a 7th Generation […]

Nvidia is partnering with Chinese internet company Baidu to create an artificial intelligence-based computing platform for autonomous cars that will include cloud-to-car connectivity and high-definition mapping. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Baidu CEO Robin Li unveiled the partnership Aug. 31 at the Baidu World Conference in Beijing, saying they will apply technologies from each company […]

Dell is growing its portfolio of converged infrastructure offerings with a new system that officials say is designed to give businesses the flexibility and simplicity they’re looking for in their data centers. The Dell Validated System for Virtualization, unveiled this week at the VMworld 2016 show, gives customers a range of configuration options to ensure […]

Cisco Systems, which has been nibbling at the edges of the growing container market, is now jumping into the space with the acquisition of an eight-person startup that is less than two years old and launched its first product in June. Officials with the tech vendor this week announced its acquisition of ContainerX, whose technology […]