Andy Patrizio

Comcast, the largest cable provider in the country and second-largest Internet Service Provider behind AOL, quietly updated its Terms of Service late last month to reflect what it has been saying and users have been kvetching about for some time – it engages in network traffic control. The acknowledgement comes in section III of the […]

Intel and STMicroelectronics are still working to spin off their flash memory joint venture, to be dubbed Numonyx, but the two aren’t waiting until the deal settles to begin working on new technologies. The first technology from the venture is based on an idea that has been around since the 1970s, but only now is […]

(Yes that was a Ratatoullie reference.) Every six months, an independent group in Germany operating under the banner of AV-Test (not to be confused with AV Comparatives) does extensive testing of antivirus products to see who does best.What I’ve always found amazing is that the detection rates and thus placements seem to change with each […]

Some press releases just make me chuckle, like this one from IBM. They won a deal with the National Security Agency, an organization that for decades the government denied even existed. Notice there is no boilerplate at the end like you usually get with a corporate release. So what’s next? How about Steve Wynn opens […]

The battle against spam continues, with many of the trends that started in 2007 dying out in favor of older techniques that worked, according to a new report from Symantec Messaging and Web Security. One new trend, though, has been Europe surpassing the U.S. as the primary source of spam. For the longest time, it […]

When Intel released its first microprocessor in 1971, the 4004 processor had 2,300 transistors. Tukwila, the next generation of its Itanium processor due at the end of the year, will have 2 billion. A lot sure can happen in 37 years. Tukwila will be the first processor to surpass 2 billion transistors total, thanks to […]

The “Simplifying IT” beat goes on with Dell, as it announces another element in that initiative — a less-complex array of support programs. The new Dell ProSupport program reduces its 10 previous service offerings down to two customizable packages. The packages — ProSupport for IT and ProSupport for End-Users — are for business/corporate customers. (Consumers […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Dell has just closed its acquisition of storage vendor EqualLogic and is wasting no time in ramping up its offerings. At a press briefing here the company today announced its first Dell-branded product, the Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series, a mid- to high-end storage offering that fills out Dell’s product line. The PS5000 […]

The latest laptop to grow legs and walk off belongs to, or at least used to belong to Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey. The company is notifying more than 300,000 of its members that their names, Social Security numbers and other personal information were on a laptop computer that was stolen in Newark […]

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday held the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference at its Santa Clara, Calif. offices, where it announced plans to release some mobile Java code as open source and clarified the status of Java ME. Java ME (Micro Edition), primarily used in cell phones, will go into even smaller devices, like […]

Trend Micro has uncovered the first phishing attack associated with the Storm worm. Storm is a highly-resilient botnet that up to now has just been used for sending out spam. Now it seems to be trying to lure in people to a fake Web page for the Royal Bank of Scotland. Usually, when a company […]

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), the consortium that helped develop the SATA interface,has announced its Power Over eSATA initiative, which will allow external SATA (eSATA) devices to draw on power from their attached device. This will eliminate the pesky power cable, usually with a fat power adapter at the plug end. This will finally […]