Andy Patrizio

The rumors turned out to be true. The same Vietnamese forum that posted details about the next generation iPhone followed up with a video outlining specs of the next iteration of Apple’s MacBook line. The jury’s still out on the iPhone 4G, but the new MacBook is real and available in stores today, Apple has […]

Apple is having a harder and harder time keeping its product pipeline under wraps. The latest leak details new product specs for the next iteration of the MacBook, Apple’s only laptop that retails for less than $1,000. The leak comes from a familiar source. The same Vietnamese forum that recently posted information about a fourth-generation […]

Now that Oracle has absorbed Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard is stepping up its efforts to poach customers away from its consolidated rival. At the SAP Sapphire conference, HP rolled out what it describes as the “Migration-in-a-Box” service kit, a top-to-bottom support offering that helps businesses running SAP apps on Oracle Sun SPARC servers transition to HP’s […]

Telecommunications companies have demanding needs from their servers — a market that Oracle is aiming for with the Sun Netra 6000 server, based on the Sun Blade 6000 server design. The offering is more than just a rebranded Sun blade server: The Netra 6000 adds carrier-grade features and enhancements designed to support applications like Operations […]

The leaks just keep coming out about the forthcoming iPhone 4G. First it was the Gizmodo debacle, then a second, more advanced prototype surfaced in Vietnam. The latest rumors come from Taiwan, citing unnamed sources in Apple’s manufacturing partners. The secretive company has reportedly upped its orders for the device in an effort to avoid […]

Apple’s iPad has captured the imagination of some of the largest companies in tech, many of which are now in various stages of developing their own versions of a tablet computer. One is in the works from British Telecom, whose CEO, Ian Livingston, described to a London paper his vision of a tablet device that […]

What’s next for Google’s Chrome OS? The operating system, targeted at lower-power, cloud-centric systems like netbooks, may be making its debut courtesy of No. 2 PC maker Acer. According to a report, Acer may be moving forward with a netbook designed that will showcase the Google operating system, which should come as little surprise to […]

In case you haven’t noticed, mobile phones are big business in the U.S. And new studies show that not only are Americans gravitating toward mobile phones instead of landlines, they’re doing so while abandoning traditional voice communications in general. As a result, IP-based communications like VoIP and text messaging — long popular in Europe, but […]

Remember how excited the technology world was when Google said it was going to offer the Nexus One directly to consumers through its own retail store? It didn’t last long. Now admitting that it was a failed experiment, Google plans to close down its Web store as soon as the Nexus One hits the shelves […]

Whether it’s WiMAX or LTE, 4G is going to be growing in the next few years. While the two protocols coexist right now, what’s the future going to hold? ABI Research projects that WiMAX wireless communications will reach more than 1 billion people by the end of 2012, and that LTE will cover another 600 […]

ABI Research is projecting a sharp growth spurt for 4G technologies over the next couple years. The research firm estimates that by 2012, WiMAX networks will reach more than 1 billion people, while LTE technologies will serve another 600 million. Enterprise Mobile Today has the details on the jump to the next generation of wireless […]

Is Research in Motion the next entrant into the tablet market? If the rumors are to be believed, it does looks that way. The blog Boy Genius Reports purports details about the development of a tablet computer with an 8.9-inch screen running a modified version of the BlackBerry operating system. Then again, an analyst points […]