Andy Patrizio

There’s a lot of smart people working at Intel, and in addition to making the next generation of chips for our computers and gadgets, they are trying to encourage the next generation of very smart people by supporting them through the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS).   The STS first began in 1942 with […]

PlayStation 3 owners have basically had three uses for their expensive console while waiting for some native games: playing old PS2 games that are compatible, watching Blu-ray movies, and running Folding@Home. It looks like a lot of those PS3 owners are doing the latter. Stanford University, which runs the Folding@Home program, announced it has surpassed […]

Don’t talk recession to the chip industry. Both the semiconductor and graphics processing unit (GPU) sectors showed great growth in 2007 and are thus far expected to hold their own in 2008. Average selling prices (ASPs), on the other hand, are a different story. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported that despite a 100 percent […]

UPDATED: For nearly three years, a group of OS/2 supporters has been asking IBM to offer up the source to the long-abandoned operating system. For three years, IBM has said no. Is it finally time to relegate the petition to the same retirement patch as OS/2 itself? The latest rejection from IBM’s legal department came […]

Symantec has released is second-annual Risk Assessment survey and the results show that the definition of “risk” is expanding, as are the threats facing IT. The survey of 405 IT managers, undertaken between February and November 2007, found that their top concern is network availability — with 78 percent citing it as a business-critical or […]

American and Russian law enforcement agencies have finally identified the criminals behind the Storm worm, one of the nastiest pieces of malware to ever hit the Internet. Now comes the hard part: arresting them. Storm has been one of the toughest worms to eradicate because it was crafted so well. It mutates every 30 minutes, […]

Toshiba is going deep with a 30-second advertisement during Sunday’s Super Bowl that, according to Home Media Magazine, represents the biggest advertising buy for any high-definition disc vendor to date. Mark Knox, an advisor to the Toshiba HD DVD division of Toshiba America, admits this won’t turn the tide in the format war. But it […]

UPDATED: The relatively close working relationship between IBM and AMD has frequently led to speculation about the two companies joining up via a merger, but the idea is always quickly dismissed by both sides. Last week, the Financial Times threw a little gas on the fire with a lengthy story that cited unnamed sources who […]

Sun Microsystems introduced the Blackbox, a portable datacenter in a 20-foot shipping container, amid some hullabaloo in late 2006 and then… nothing. Things got rather quiet, aside from a promotional tour in 2007. But it seems the datacenter-to-go is starting to gain traction. There were individual wins, like the datacenter in Japan that will use […]

Symantec will introduce the latest experiment from its Advanced Concepts “lab” at the DEMO conference this week—a new type of Internet security and monitoring software for families. The Advanced Concepts group is an attempt by the company, with 17,000 employees, to regain a sense of the nimble development process found at smaller, entrepreneurial firms. When […]

ScanSafe has announced the release of Anywhere+, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web security service that will provide malware protection and Internet policy usage enforcement on the user’s laptop, regardless of location. ScanSafe cited a report from WorldatWork that said 45 million Americans work from various locations outside the office, and in a recent survey, 95 percent […]

VIA Technologies has announced Isaiah Architecture, its newest processor technology. The x86-compatible processor is designed for the low power markets where VIA plays best, but with a lot more kick than older VIA chips. VIA has been in the x86 clone market for some time, making chips that run considerably slower than those from Intel […]