According to a leaked internal email from CEO Yang Yanqing, Lenovo will split into separate consumer and enterprise units from April 2013-- the Lenovo Business Group (LBG) and Think Business Group (TBG).

Senior VP (mobile digital home) Liu Jun will lead LBG, which will focus the mainstream with consumer and business PCs and tablets, smartphones and smart TVs.

The second TBG unit is led by Senior VP (products Group) Dr. Peter Hortensius and will sell high-end Think products, enterprise workstations and servers through the incorporation of the Read more...

A dark horse emerges in the race to acquire Motorola Home Business-- US-based networking equipment maker Arris beats Pace and buys the Google cable TV technology division for $2.35 billion in cash and stock. 

"This transformational combination of two complementary businesses will create a leading end-to-end provider of today's video, data, and voice products and tomorrow's next-generation IP-based broadband products," Arris CEO Bob Stanzione says.  "Ever-expanding consumer demand for bandwidth will continue to drive growth across cloud and network t Read more...

The Cisco wallet is clearly wide open as the company makes yet another acquisition this month-- network management server and software developer BroadHop. 

Financial details of the acquisitions are not available. 

BroadHop develops policy control and service management products for mobile and fixed carrier networks. Already a Cisco service provider wifi partner, its products support the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) initiative. 

According to Cisco reasons for the purchase include the growth of global IP traffic (set to triple over the next Read more...

Haivision announces its "next-generation" H.264 video encoding platform, the Makito X Series. Haivision says the Makito X Series offers a 6X increase in encoding power to deliver HD video using half of the bandwidth of comparable encoders.

The Makito X2, a dual channel low-latency HD-SDI H.264 encoder, is the first Haivision product to incorporate the company's new X Series technology. It can encode up to 12 HD sources (up to 1080p 60Hz) to H.264 within a 1RU of rack space. Supporting High Profile H.264 video compression, the Makito X2 specs Read more...