Andy Patrizio

Trend Micro is branching out from its anti-malware roots to offer an e-mail archiving solution for mid-sized businesses running Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers. Trend Micro Message Archiver (TMMA) stores and compresses e-mail on its own server, allowing for the storage load to be reduced on the mail server while retaining a fast, searchable archive of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the status of the U.S. economy surrounded by question marks, what will be the impact of a recession, or at least a severe slowdown, on IT spending and budgets? That was the question being addressed at an afternoon session here at the IDC Directions ’08 conference. Stephen Minton, vice president […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The days of early adopters, visionaries and startups having technologies like Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service (SaaS) all to themselves may be ending, now that heavy hitters like IBM, Microsoft and HP are gearing up for major pushes into the space. That’s the claim during one of the sessions here at IDC’s […]

AVG Technologies is the latest antivirus vendor to beef up its security suite to cover as wide a range of threats as possible by including link-scanning technology it acquired late last year. AVG (which changed its name from Grisoft earlier this year) isn’t as well known in the U.S. as Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro, […]

It’s amazing what happens when companies decide to work together instead of tear each other apart.The Sun Microsystems and Microsoft detente continues to bear surprising fruits, this time in the form of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. It’s actually an expansion of Sun’s current presence in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center where […]

A developer of enterprise mobility software has expressed doubts that Apple’s iPhone can cut it in the enterprise due to a number of issues, all of which Apple can change, but in doing so are anathema to how the company operates. Ahmed Datoo, vice president of marketing of Zenprise, a developer of software for enterprise […]

Microsoft may be the butt of all the Borg jokes, but it looks like the real assimilator is Apple. iTunes now has th final big prize, it scored the entire back catalog for Beatles. The London Daily Mail reports Paul McCartney has reached an agreement to the tidy sum of $400 million. McCartney will share […]

After a 24-hour blitz through the Apple iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has declared it can use the SDK to get its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) ported over to Apple’s phone, as well as the iPod Touch, since the two are virtually the same technology. Sun’s JVM is already on the Mac OS, which […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP is refocusing its Labs research arm, paring down the number of projects it has going while putting more effort into the ones it thinks will pay off, the company announced at an event here near its corporate headquarters. HP Labs has produced many of the company’s best-known products, from the […]

A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report’s findings. For the month of February, Marshal found that the most dominant botnet spewing out junk e-mail was not the vaunted Storm […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Intel CEO Paul Otellini today attempted to clarify the company’s situation surrounding NAND flash memory one day after a Q1 financials warning clobbered the semiconductor market. On Tuesday, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) warned that its Q1 gross profit margin would slip from 56 percent in prior guidance to 54 percent, and attributed […]

Trent Reznor, the one-man band that is Nine Inch Nails, may have found a formula that works for online music sales. Last year he split from his record label Universal/Interscope and decided to go independent. In his first effort, Reznor has released a 36-track “album” (that term seems so anachronistic now) called “Ghosts I-IV” and […]