Andy Patrizio

SanDisk has confirmed that it is one of 24 companies under investigation by the Department of Justice for antitrust violations in the flash memory market, although the company has no idea why. Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, and SanDisk have all received subpoenas along with Hynix, a major memory vendor in Korea. SanDisk makes flash drives and […]

Dell on Thursday announced it would offer Seagate’s encrypting hard drive as an option for its Latitude line of laptops to provide “the world’s most secure notebooks.” The secure drive is available now as an option for buyers of the Latitude D630 and D830 notebooks at a $130 premium over the standard price. Lost or […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The SMB  market sure is getting some love this week. First Dell announced its more affordable storage solution for smaller businesses, and now HP is getting in on the game with a new all-in-one server. The formal name for the product is the HP c3000 BladeSystem, but Executive Vice President Ann […]

Sun Microsystems today announced an update to its Solaris operating system designed to improve performance under virtualization and add support for Linux applications, along with other improvements to the software. The most notable change Sun  made to Solaris 10 8/07, the official title of the update, is the addition of Solaris Containers for Linux Applications. […]

September is looking like a slow month for Microsoft bugs, as this month’s Patch Tuesday only features one critical fix for one specific version of Windows, plus three important fixes, which rank as less severe. The only critical fix is in Microsoft Agent, which has a vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution. Agent […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that the small to medium-sized business  market has been “underserved,” Dell today introduced a new storage system especially for the sector. According to Dell CEO Michael Dell, the problem with SMB-oriented storage is that it is either a stripped-down, crippled version of an enterprise product, or it is an enterprise product […]

The CPU Formerly Known As Barcelona is now officially the Quad-Core AMD Opteron, with the part numbers 13xx, 23xx and 83xx in AMD’s numbering system. Servers from Dell, IBM and HP are expected to start shipping to customers in the fourth quarter of this year. Opteron will get its grand unveiling tonight at filmmaker George […]

CollabNet today announced the release of CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 (CEE), a significant update to its application lifecycle management (ALM) software that helps codify and enforce best practices in a distributed development scenario. As the company’s name indicates, CollabNet is focused on development teams that are spread out over a distributed area. This would seem […]

Intel on Wednesday released its new family of multi-processor (MP) Xeon server chips, the Quad-Core 7300, which completes Intel’s transition to the Core architecture and gives its MP products a big performance boost. The 7300 line, developed under the codename Tigerton, fills out the top end of the Xeon line in the MP space, which […]

One day after announcing a 33 percent price cut on the two-month-old iPhone, Apple’s CEO did a quick back pedal and disclosed plans for a store credit for early adopters stuck with a $599 bill. As part of a huge iPod overhaul, Jobs said the 8GB, $599 iPhone would be slashed to $399, while the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — If Tower Records weren’t dead before today’s news from Apple and Starbucks, it would have been once it found out the companies have teamed up to sell music wirelessly. The long-rumored iPod based on the iPhone came true as Apple  CEO Steve Jobs today introduced iPod Touch, a slimmer version of the […]

There’s something else most consumers don’t want that is made in China, along with lead-tainted toys and poisoned toothpaste: malicious Web pages. Security firm Sophos has posted the findings of its August report on malware and found China far and away had the most compromised Web pages serving up malware. Problem is this stuff is […]