Andy Patrizio

Don’t call it the “iGateway,” even though it shares some familiar design elements with the current edition of Apple’s iconic iMac. Gateway today plans to introduce its new consumer PC at the Digital Life show in New York. Called Gateway One, the PC is an all-in-one system with built-in display. Similarly to the iMac, it […]

IBM has a new technology that allows users to automate repetitive drudgery through the use of an elaborate scripting language. Called CoScripter and developed by the IBM Almaden Research Center, this language will do for tasks what batch files did for computers. In one example, IBM said the task of preparing for a meeting—sending out […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Nine months after first announcing their plans to get together, the alliance between Sun and Intel gave birth to a pair of bouncing baby servers today: two Sun Fire quad-core 1U and 2U low-profile servers geared for virtualization environments. The X4150 is a two-socket, 1U system with Intel’s Xeon 5300 processors. […]

Saying the technical writer’s market is vastly underserved, Adobe Systems today announced Adobe Technical Communication Suite software, a collection of its publishing tools geared for authors of technical documentation. The suite is built around RoboHelp 7, an upgrade to Adobe’s help system and knowledge base authoring tool and the second update to RoboHelp this year. […]

Graphics chip maker Nvidia plans a major assault on the Intel-compatible integrated chipset market tomorrow, introducing a new motherboard chipset aimed at low-cost desktop PCs. According to a Reuters report, the company, best known for its add-in graphics cards, will come out with a trio of motherboard chipsets designed to rival Intel’s own G35 integrated […]

Microsoft is hosting its sixth BlueHat security conference at its Redmond, Wash. campus later this week, giving Microsoft employees a chance to pick the brains of security experts. As such, this is a closed affair for Microsoft staffers only, but what they learn will make its way into all Microsoft products. This event is called […]

A new vulnerability has emerged in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) and, so far, only Adobe and a white hat hacker know about it. But give the bad guys time. PDF was the target of another exploit in January, which was quickly fixed. It then emerged earlier this summer as the new method for […]

What slowdown? PC sales are still doing very well, with emerging nations leading the way but even mature markets like the U.S. are on a buying spree. The latest Gartner estimates forecast worldwide PC shipments will grow 12.3 percent in 2007 and 11.0 percent in 2008. Mobile PCs remain the most popular hardware being sold, […]

SAN FRANCISCO– One day in advance of the Intel Developer Forum and AMD decided to thrown down a new and unusual challenge. The company announced a tri-core processor for desktop users, due in the first quarter of next year. AMD  is on track to release Phenom, the four-core successor to the Athlon line in the […]

Symantec today released its 12th bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report covering malicious activity over the first six months of the year, which confirms some trends that have been emerging and notes some new ones, as well. The report covers activity from Jan. 1 to June 30 of this year, covering data gathered by Symantec’s Global […]

McAfee today announced the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4 (ePO), a single console for management of security applications and services. The company also announced the Security Innovation Alliance, which will provide a set of tools designed to help integrate third-party applications into ePO. McAfee  is claiming a lot of firsts for ePO, which it updated to […]

There has been considerably emphasis on the subject of power efficiency and microprocessors, mostly because Intel and AMD have been beating the drum of lower power consumption louder than Keith Moon in his prime. However, there is an overlooked element inside that refrigerator-sized humming black plastic and metal box that is sucking up considerable amounts […]