Andy Patrizio

Denver International Airport is a monstrous place, one of the few airports I have not passed through in my career. Like many airports, it offers free Wi-Fi for travelers, but it also decides which sites are suitable for you to read.  Want to browse the sites for Vanity Fair, Victoria‘s Secret or Perez Hilton? Gonna […]

Lenovo, the artists formerly known as IBM’s PC business, today announced a new “eco-friendly” PC, the ThinkCentre M57/M57p. This is the first desktop PC from any manufacturer to receive GREENGUARD certification as a low-emissions device, along with being EPEAT Gold rated, Energy Star 4.0 rated, and the first ThinkCentre made from recycled material from consumer […]

AMD demonstrated its first 45nm processor designs at the giant CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany this week and said it is on track to release 45nm processors in the second half of this year. Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) made the move to 45nm late last year and in the process switched its manufacturing process, dropping the […]

With the dust settling on the high definition format war, I wanted to add my voice to the ever-growing chorus of opinions on what the future holds. It’s not really surprising that HD DVD sales are spiking. Look at the price blowouts. Amazon recently dumped the Toshiba HD-A35 for $169, with free shipping. Even I […]

Notebooks often take more physical abuse than a rental car, and that’s by their owners who paid for them. In some cases, the laptop may find itself in harsh surroundings; with a South Pole expedition, in a Marine unit in Iraq, or with missionaries in Africa. There aren’t that many choices for laptops that can […]

Web application developer Nexaweb Technologies has announced a plan to assist IT departments in migrating legacy applications to the Web, and helping streamline and clean up the applications in the process. Nexaweb Advance doesn’t put a Web 2.0 face on a creaky old 3GL or 4GL application. First it looks at all of the application’s […]

Virus vendors are frequently accused of creating the viruses so they can sell you the fix. Just last week, ESET Software came by to discuss their 2007 Malware report and it was a joke among us that they were writing the viruses so they could detect them. Well, now we’re seeing a piece of malware […]

Bachelor auctions have been popular gimmicks for raising money, but how often does a celebrated actress get involved? On eBay there is a bid to win a date with Scarlett Johansson, the curvy star of films like “Lost in Translation,” “The Island” and the recent period piece “The Other Boleyn Girl.” Like many in Hollywood, […]

Sun is continuing its acquisitions strategy, not of companies but prominent open source programmers. James Gosling today announced during his keynote at Sun Tech Days in Sydney Australia that Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki will be joining Sun to work on all of the company’s Python projects.  Leung is an author, a member of the […]

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is being adopted for a wider range of uses, and not all of them are for the good. On the plus side, OpSource, a SaaS hosting company, late last week announced OpSource Connect, a new feature that will allow companies to consume and publish multiple Web services across their SaaS applications and connect […]

A Mozilla developer, currently working on the 3.0 release of the browser, raised a ruckus when he expressed some frustration in a blog post yesterday over Apple’s lack of proper OS documentation. Programmer Vladimir Vukicevic noted in his blog that once he discovered some undocumented APIs in Mac OS X, performance for the Mac version […]

Comcast lately has been running ads for a new service called Blast, which offers a considerable improvement in both upload and download speeds. After checking with them, I confirmed that I had the 6 megabit down/384kbit up package, and could get blast, 16 megabits down and 2 megabits up, for $10 more. So I gave […]