Andy Patrizio

Adobe’s Flash video format continues to enjoy tremendous use around the Internet for everything from animated Web sites to simple but addicting games. Flash is also gaining popularity as a video delivery vehicle. But some former Adobe employees have a startup company that’s giving their former employer a run for its money. Wowza Media Systems […]

While all the hoopla in data center power reduction has been over low wattage CPUs and servers, IBM noted that there was another major contributor to the electric bill not being addressed: cooling systems. The company noted a study by American Power Conversion that only 35 percent of the power in a data center goes […]

AMD announced today that Dave Orton, former president and CEO of ATI Technologies who came to AMD as part of last year’s acquisition, will leave the company at the end of this month. Orton serves as an executive vice president of visual and media business at AMD , heading up the consumer electronics and graphics […]

Microsoft today issued six bulletins containing 11 fixes as part of its monthly patch cycle, covering everything from its Windows operating systems to applications and the .NET framework. Three of the fixes are listed as “critical,” the most severe of vulnerabilities. One covers Microsoft Excel and would allow for remote code execution on an unsuspecting […]

Intel has announced a significant investment in virtualization leader VMware. Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant, announced on Monday it will invest $218.5 million, which will give it 2.5 percent of VMware’s Class A common stock. The deal also gives Intel  a seat on the VMware board of director. Intel has not […]

Transmeta, the once-high flying chip maker that boasted Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds as a staffer but has since fallen on hard times, got a $7.5 million boost from AMD today. As part of the deal, AMD  invested $7.5 million in Transmeta  in exchange for Transmeta preferred stock. Transmeta did not disclose what it will […]

Found a security flaw in Windows or Linux and eBay won’t let you post it to its Everything Else section? Not a worry, just let WabiSabiLabi sell it for you. WSLabi opened for business this week. The company said its Web site will offer known and verified vulnerabilities in applications and operating systems and promises […]

Microsoft is preparing three critical bulletins and three of less severity for its monthly patch releases due out next Tuesday, July 10. Each bulletin can have one or more fixes, so the exact number of fixes is unknown, as Microsoft  does not tip its hand as to the state or nature of the fixes in […]

Researchers at a Dutch university have submitted work on a laser-based hard drive head that they claim can run up to 100 times faster than current magnetic heads, but the viability of the technology is questionable. The researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen have published a paper in the Physical Review Letters on a new laser […]

Dell is continuing its expansion into the retail world, something analysts have said is long overdue. Today Dell announced plans to soon sell desktop and laptop computers in certain retail outlets in the Far East. Just which stores in which Asia-Pacific nations were not disclosed. Paul-Henri Ferrand, the head of Dell’s operations in the Asia-Pacific […]

The software-as-a-service market continues to show strength with yet another initial public stock offering, this time by NetSuite, the on-demand business software firm formed in 1998 by Oracle chief Larry Ellison and a former Oracle executive. NetSuite’s ERP  software is used by some 5,300 small and medium-sized businesses to run their companies, according to the […]

The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store. Instead of renewing its previous contract to sell its online music catalog through iTunes, Universal is looking […]