Andy Patrizio

You know a technology alliance has work to do when the partners’ target date for producing results is three to four years away. That time span may seem like an eternity in today’s computing environment, but 2011 is the soonest that Intel and Cray expect their new alliance — built around the next generation of […]

Java developer SpringSource yesterday debuted its new application server, an enterprise-scale offering designed around modularity — as well as what the company considers a much-needed pruning of Java libraries. Over the course of its life, Java has had numerous technologies thrown into the stew that is Java Enterprise Edition. Some have become obsolete, while others […]

Intel today launched a program for the SMB market designed to sell not just bare metal but the software on top of it. Dubbed the Intel Business Exchange (BX), it brings a number of software and services vendors together to offer complete solutions, not just hardware. As part of the program, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has […]

No wonder the porn industry is slowly dying. It has to compete with Hollywood. First, there was the New Yorker running a pictorial of rising-star-turned-trainwreck Lindsay Lohan in a recreation of Marilyn Monroe’s famous 1962 nude pictorial last February. It didn’t hurt that the pictures were linked on The Drudge Report, which gets 15 million […]

Sony Ericsson today announced at its Developer World conference plans for a new technology that bridges Adobe Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms. The technology, called Project Capuchin, allows Java ME applications to use Flash Lite as the front-end interface for mobile phone applications. More importantly, it builds a connection between the phone’s applications […]

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PALO ALTO, Calif. – How many times have you printed out a document on a sheet of paper, used it once, and tossed it out? According to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 44.5 percent of the time that’s exactly the fate of a printed page. Print out something like directions or a memo for […]

AMD (NYSE: AMD) has made respectable gains on the server side with the Opteron processor; it’s popular with home users for its lower cost chips and gamers like its more powerful processors. But there is a gaping hole in its product coverage: business desktops. The company has not had the presence in that market it […]

Researchers from the University of Mannheim in Germany and the Institut Eurecom have reverse-infiltrated Storm by deliberately allowing the botnet to infect a series of honeypots, bait computers that were intended to be infected. Those infected computers then sent out their own payload that had incorrect instructions so the bots on the network did not […]

After three weeks of its month-long experiment in how badly an e-mail address can be spammed, and McAfee and its volunteer bloggers are having quite the adventure, not to mention some laughs. McAfee’s (NYSE: MFE) S.P.A.M. Experiment — for “Spammed Persistently All Month” — aims to educate and inform about the dangers of spam. The […]

UPDATED: A massive cyberattack is targeting vulnerable Internet Information Server-based Web pages by redirecting visitors to the site toward one hosting malicious code, and it’s growing rapidly. When Panda Security first noted the infestation, it put the number of infected IIS servers at 282,000. Less than a day later, security firm F-Secure wrote its own […]

Sun Microsystems has introduced a new virtualization service that enables software vendors’ Solaris-based applications run in an on-demand environment without having to rewrite their code. Solaris On Demand converts installed applications into software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Through its use of virtualization, it enables the software to add “multitenancy,” or support for simultaneous users, without messy code […]