Andy Patrizio

In a recent update to its Java roadmap, Sun Microsystems pretty much omitted any discussion about Java Micro Edition (ME), which would seem to be a bad sign for the embedded language. However, the company insists there is plenty of life in technology and it won’t be abandoned any time soon. James Gosling today updated […]

Sun Microsystems today announced its first Intel-based desktop workstation computers in years, powered by Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Quad processors. They fill out the Sun workstation lineup, which includes SPARC and AMD Opteron-based workstations as well. For those who remember Sun’s i386 line from the late 1980s, the new Sun Ultra 24 workstation should […]

Remember all the foot-stomping tantrums and calls of “boycott!” after Apple suddenly cut the price of the iPhone last month? So much for that, the Apple train continues to ride at full speed. Apple on Monday beat analyst estimates for its fourth fiscal quarter, with record sales of Macintosh computers, iPods and yes, the iPhone. […]

Give the spammers an A for creativity but a D-minus for execution on this new one. This week saw the first outbreak of MP3-based spam. Having tried a variety of other means, including PDF spam, they have a new way of shilling their pump-and-dump stocks: your speakers. A number of security firms, which constantly monitor […]

After months of allegations that Comcast has been throttling BitTorrent uploads, a report from the Associated Press on Friday appears to verify the claim. Accusations have been floating around the Internet for some time that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV operator and the second-largest Internet service provider, engages in throttling peer-to-peer activity. On Friday, […]

Intel may have had a fantastic third quarter, but AMD didn’t—at least not in terms of profitability. The company on Thursday reported third-quarter revenue of $1.63 billion, a 23 percent increase from the same quarter in 2006 and an 18 percent improvement from the second quarter. But expenses due to manufacturing transitions and the ongoing […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sun Microsystems is working to make good on the many promises related to client-side computing that it first made earlier this year at JavaOne — although it admits parts of the effort may be some ways off. During that show, the company introduced its new client-side technology, JavaFX, which would compete […]

IT administrators can set down all the policies they want but employees have a nasty habit of going into business for themselves, installing pretty much whatever they want while working on the corporate network. No longer viewed as benign, time-wasting nuisances, IT departments now say the proliferation of these so-called “greynets” has become a serious […]

Having scored its first trophy to mount on the walls in the legal offices, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is after a new target: The venerable Usenet system. More specifically, the RIAA on Tuesday filed suit against one company in particular, Usenet.com, a provider of access to the aging-but-still-active Usenet news hierarchy. Usenet.com […]

Intel reported an outstanding third quarter, in defiance of all the predictions of a slowdown in computer sales. The company saw record revenue of $10.1 billion, easily blowing away projections made just last quarter of between $9 billion and $9.6 billion. Net income was equally impressive, rising to $1.9 billion, a 43 percent jump from […]

Apple must be thinking it’s 1997 and not 2007 with all the bad luck that has rained down on it in recent months. This week, Greenpeace slapped Apple over chemicals used in the iPhone. And based on the Greenpeace report, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), an Oakland, Calif. environmental group, said it would sue […]

All too often, IT shops realize their weaknesses only after they’ve been hacked. Fortunately, Core Security Technologies has a solution: Hack yourself before others do. The company on Tuesday introduced Core Impact v7.5, the latest version of its security analysis and testing tool. The update adds new features that let users attempt to breach themselves […]