Andy Patrizio

Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects. Because the technologies are fairly mature, Adobe isn’t so much looking for help from the open source community as it is looking to get its technology into more hands. Adobe intends […]

UPDATED: Swallowing ATI Technologies seems to be causing some financial heartburn for AMD, and the company now needs the financial equivalent of Alka Seltzer: a big write-down of intangible assets related to ATI. In a brief 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD said the current carrying value of its goodwill (translation: the […]

The Green Grid is finally getting the ball rolling after a protracted start and will host its first Green Grid General Members’ Meeting and Technical Forum in February, one year after its formal launch. The event will be held at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco on February 5-6. The goal of the meeting […]

Dell today marked its entry into the tablet notebook market with the Latitude XT, a $2,499 notebook that aims to make up for the company’s tardiness to the market with advanced screen technology and a solid-state flash memory hard drive. Like most tablet laptops, the Latitude XT’s 12.1-inch touch-sensitive display can be rotated 180 degrees […]

That should wrap it up for 2007, at least regarding Microsoft and its security updates. The company on Tuesday issued its monthly update for December, which consists of seven security bulletins that fix 11 vulnerabilities. Three of the bulletins rated as critical, the most severe fixes. The other four are rated as important and highly […]

Sun Microsystems is expanding its open source program around its SPARC processors with the announcement Tuesday that it would provide the OpenSPARC T2 RTL (register transfer level) processor design to the open source community under the GPL license. OpenSPARC T2 is based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor released last August. The new processor is an […]

Fabless semiconductor vendors will be able to avail themselves to cutting-edge 32-nanometer manufacturing and high-k/metal gate composition with the announcement of a new service from IBM. Big Blue’s service, which will be available in 2009, will provide fabless vendors with a chipmaking process similar to that adopted by IBM and Intel to further shrink transistor […]

One of the most common forms of malware infestation is people clicking on links in e-mails from unknown sources. Now it appears that not even a major U.S. research lab is immune. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory yesterday disclosed it has been wrestling with a “sophisticated cyber attack that appears to be part of a […]

UPDATED: In the 1970s, a quintet of spray paint artists called The Fabulous Five turned New York trains and subway cars into their canvases. New Yorkers were impressed with art that stretched as far as 10 cars while the Transit Authority and hardware stores where the five stole their paint were furious. Thirty years later, […]

Mass market CPUs have reached the four-core stage, and there are 64-core and 80-core processors in labs right now, but for IBM, that’s still not enough. Big Blue has designs on a processor with a whopping 1,000 (or more) cores. But don’t get any purchase orders ready; this is a long-term effort that might take […]

UPDATED: Finally, Greg Donovan can say he’s a Dell reseller. The president and CEO of Alpheon, a managed services provider in Morrisville, NC, has been an unofficial Dell reseller through its “super secret direct program,” as he called it, Solution Provider Direct. Now, however, Dell has made it official with the launch of PartnerDirect, a […]

AMD is denying reports that it stopped shipments of its Quad Core Opteron server processor, a.k.a. “Barcelona,” and the new quad core desktop chip Phenom due to processor errata. Microprocessor errata is a common problem that occurs during manufacturing, where errors in the microcode cause errors while performing certain operations. The most famous example was […]