Andy Patrizio

From the “Riiiiiiiiiiight” Files… AT&T on Friday issued a notice that just has to make you laugh. Effective June 1, 2010, the early termination fees (ETFs) for basic phone customers will be reduced from $175 to $150, and scaling down with each month you have left. But if you have a netbook or smartphones, the […]

Some applications lend themselves to a multicore world very well, but there are some that just need a single core that goes as fast as possible, and CPUs have hit a limitation on how fast they can go. Until now, there has simply been no solution to that problem beyond using the fastest processor you […]

HP has long been a leading seller of printers and is consistently at or near the top in PC sales as well. And the traditional model for printing is those two pieces of hardware working together — see the page on your PC screen and print it. But the Web and wireless technology has proven […]

The Apple iPad’s proven to be a hit, but is it cutting into sales of Apple’s original baby, the Mac? Some new data suggests that sales of the new Apple tablet PC may be cannibalizing Mac sales. RBC Capital Markets took a look at the unexpectedly strong sales of the iPad, how it’s stacking up […]

Hard disk capacity has fought to keep up with the explosion in data, and by and large, the hard drive vendors have kept up a decent pace of increasing capacity. But as it turns out, an old legacy design in your existing PC means the PC you own now will never be able to access […]

Like many of its rivals in the enterprise hardware space, Dell saw a strong quarter owing to returning interest among IT decision-makers in buying new data center components. In Dell’s case, the company topped Wall Street expectations owing to surging strength in its EqualLogic storage unit and in its services business, built in large part […]

Despite the earnest pitches from nVidia and AMD’s ATI, mainstream vendors have been reluctant to include graphical processors in their high-end servers. But one those vendors has seen its luck turn. IBM has announced plans to include nVidia’s Tesla processors in its System x iDataPlex compute-intensive servers. Will Big Blue’s deal with nVidia open the […]

More than 314 million handsets were sold in the first three months of this year, up 17 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner. The trend figures to continue for the foreseeable future as developing countries embrace mobile handsets for the first time while the majority of smartphone-savvy consumers continue to upgrade […]

Apple likes its secrets, but it has to show its hand eventually. That usually comes in revelations found in beta versions of its operating systems, which have to be issued to the public in advance of the final release. So when the company drops a new build, even non-developers tear into it to see hints […]

Microsoft is taking its fight with Salesforce.com to the courtroom. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant slapped the smaller, cloud-based player with a lawsuit charging Salesforce.com with infringement on a handful of Microsoft patents, but the acrimony between the two has been building for some time. After all, Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) whole premise is centered around […]

In the IT sector, six-month manufacturing cycles for PCs are the norm. But in the health-care industry, where IT buyers crave continuity and stability, that state of flux is less than desirable. Enter Dell and Siemens, which are offering the new Precision T5500 Long-Life workstations, a line of imaging systems whose configurations hold steady for […]

IT industry bellwether HP reported its earnings today, showcasing a powerful upswing in sales of servers and PCs. That’s excellent news for industry observers looking for continued signs that IT decision-makers are revving up the buying process after staying on the sidelines for so many of the most recent quarters. Datamation takes a look at […]