Andy Patrizio

Warner Bros.’s decision on Friday to support only Blu-ray disc as its high-definition DVD format of choice sent quite the shockwave through the home-theater community and among companies assembling in Las Vegas for CES. Yet while many online outlets were quick to declare the rival HD DVD format dead in the water, some analysts aren’t […]

Intel’s earlier launch of the Penryn family of 45 nanometer processors was a bit on the modest side, with just a few Xeons and the top of the line in the desktop family. But this week’s International CES 2008 show will see a much bigger collection of processors across the desktop, mobile and low-end server […]

Back in his stand-up comic days, Eddie Murphy joked about the newest trend in cars at the time, having them talk to their owner, such as saying the lights were on or the door was open. His car, he said, had an attitude. “Yer lights are on. You deaf and blind? I said your lights […]

Do you find “AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+” a pain to say out loud? So does AMD. The company is giving its lengthy CPU brand names a makeover, with the goal of improving clarity for its buyers. The move had been erroneously reported in some quarters as the end of the line for the X2 […]

If Microsoft wants to rev up the online business generated from its Live strategy, it didn’t engender a lot of confidence among customers in recent weeks. The Xbox Live online service suffered outages and intermittent service for almost two weeks and even the Zune marketplace shut down temporarily. The outage began Dec. 22 — the […]

There’s nothing like a good conspiracy theory to liven up an otherwise quiet period in the blogosphere. On the day after Christmas, while most folks were struggling with their new iPod or trying to get XBox Live to work, Adobe was accused of spying on its users by secretly pinging a behavior analytics address every […]

The Tournament of Roses parade may be a 119 years old tradition in Pasadena, California, but it’s not stuck in the past. This year, the tournament is adding an audio tour, downloadable as a podcast from iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 marketplace, to serve as an accompaniment to the parade flotilla. The free audio tour is […]

The Top 500 list of supercomputers rarely contains real shockers, but in November, readers might have been surprised to find that No. 3 was a 126-teraflop computer at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. What may be surprising is that the computer is from SGI. Remember SGI? The company once known as Silicon Graphics Inc. […]

Microsoft has issued an alert to users of its recently released Windows Home Server not to save or edit data files directly to the server because it may cause corruption of the file. Windows Home Server is a scaled-down and modified version of Windows Server 2003, meant for home users and consumers. It’s designed to […]

Apple is seeking patents around its two of its recent designs — the first concerning the nascent mobile transaction space, while the second involves the always-controversial Digital Rights Management (DRM) arena. The company earlier this year filed for a patent on technology first announced in September, in connection with the launch of its iPod Touch […]

The year ahead will be no less challenging than the one we’re now exiting: We’re going into an election year, which is always tumultuous; there are signs of economic rough waters; and Silicon Valley is headed into a new boom that some are already comparing to the 1999 dot-com mania. And we all know how […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Yes it’s that time of year folks, as news announcements wind down and reporters try to stay busy and show they know what they are talking about. It’s time for year-end lists. For my part, I’m doing a Top Ten ‘Best of the Year’ list as relates to my wide swath of product […]