Andy Patrizio

Intel’s executives are remarkably disciplined and not given to making foolish statements. Usually. But one comment coming out of the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai is a head-scratcher. TGDaily reports that during a demo, Ron Fosner, an Intel Graphics and Gaming Technologist and former video game programmer, said that multi-core CPUs will put an end […]

There have been anecdotal stories about iPhone users making heavy use of the non-phone elements of the device, but now comes the first research to quantify it. iSuppli has just released a report that shows that talking doesn’t constitute the majority of iPhone users time. iSuppli’s ConsumerTrak survey of U.S. residents showed that owners of […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have taken their long-term business partnership one step further with a new identity and access-management solution that provides end-to-end identity management, multifactor authentication techniques and single sign-on. The Accenture Smart Identity Solution is made of four components jointly developed by the two companies. All will still be […]

Radar Online, one of the few gossip sites worth reading, has an interesting story on a partnership between former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown and media mogul Barry Diller to launch a news aggregator website. The site will have “no ideological stance” and will be edited by a former deputy managing editor […]

The latest trick from malware writers is a retro form of virus propagation. For some time now, e-mail has been the standard form of delivery and spreading of malicious code by getting users to click on malicious links. But in the pre-Internet days, viruses typically spread from one computer to another via the floppy disks […]

Who in the world would voluntarily ingest spam for 30 days? People who want to be part of the problem in order to come up with a solution, apparently. Security vendor McAfee found fifty people to take part in its Global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment to find out what a solid, 30-day diet […]

For the second year in a row, Intel is holding its spring Developer Forum in China as opposed to a San Francisco show, as had been tradition for several years. In another break from tradition, Intel’s PC processors stepped aside and let the newest member of the product family, the Atom processor, take center stage. […]

A San Diego, Texas attorney has dropped an ultimatum on Microsoft: settle a lawsuit for $25 million or he will call chairman Bill Gates to the witness stand. The suit stems from a fire in the Lazo family home that was blamed on faulty wiring in the family’s Xbox. Back in 2005, Microsoft had to […]

This better not be an April Fool joke. DigiTimes reports that Hynix Semiconductor has decided to cut production of NAND flash in an attempt to reduce the insane glut of memory that has resulted in massive oversupply and erosion of prices and therefore profits. Hynix is a big player in the memory sector, a $9.1 […]

You could see this one coming a mile off. Survey after survey in 2006 and 2007 showed consumers were on the fence about a high definition DVD format, waiting until there was one choice instead of two. Well, now that there is one choice, they are getting off the fence. Home Media Magazine is reporting […]

Semiconductor sales are slowing, but they are still growing according to two separate surveys released on Monday. Gartner found sales rose 3.8 percent in 2007 to $273.9 billion, while the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported a 1.5 percent increase in February over the prior year. The growth is coming in specific areas for different companies, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Numonyx was formally launched today with a new CEO and a much better financial condition than originally planned. The company takes the NOR flash memory business from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and NAND business from STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and combines them under one, independent roof. The main roof will be in Geneva, where […]