Andy Patrizio

Gags about protecting the boss from himself are a sitcom and Dilbert staple, but they may prove more real than you might believe. One of the latest scams is to target C-level executives with deceptive spam. Messaging security and management services provider MessageLabs has noticed emails targeting C-level executives for at least the past 18 […]

UPDATED: After teasing the high-tech world for months, AMD said today it will ship its quad-core Barcelona Opteron processors in August to computer makers. Servers powered by the new chips will be available in September. AMD  plans to release both standard (95 watts) and low power (68 watts) versions of the Opteron chip at launch, […]

Where there’s a hot market, there’s a scam. If you were one of those suckers who clicked on a banner saying you won a free iPod and never got your free player, well, let’s hope you learned your lesson, because that old trick is back. As the hype for the iPhone approaches that of Paris […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Dell announced today a partnership with Emerson Network Power to improve data center cooling efficiency while reducing the expense in keeping computers cooled. The two companies will combine their sales forces to promote Emerson’s XD cooling systems in Dell data center deployments. Emerson’s Liebert subsidiary makes the XD line of rack […]

CodeSourcery is the latest company to partner with IBM to support the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) microprocessor by offering Cell support for its Sourcery VSIPL++ signal- and image-processing (SIP) toolkit. VSIPL stands for Vector Signal and Image Processing Library. It’s a C++ library that works with IBM’s software development kit for building Cell-based applications. The […]

PC sales will grow at a healthy rate of 11.1 percent in 2007 despite no major software driver, including the release of Windows Vista, according to a report from Gartner. The research firm Worldwide PC shipments are projected to reach 257.1 million units in 2007, a nice jump from the 231.5 million units sold in […]

What would you accomplish in a 21-day stretch? For Miguel de Icaza of Novell, it was banging out an open source clone of Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application development framework. de Icaza is the project leader for the Mono initiative, an open source version of .NET and a vice president at Novell. Since Silverlight is […]

In preparation for the launch of the iPhone, Backbase plans to release its AJAX framework and software development kit for building and running AJAX applications on Apple’s much-hyped phone. To achieve this, Backbase is making its AJAX framework compatible with Apple’s Safari 3 browser, which Apple just released in beta form for the Windows platform. […]

The International Supercomputing Conference will take place this week in Heidelberg, Germany, and the big news is… cables. Ok, that and petaflop  computing. If cabling is not the first thing to come to mind when talking about high-performance computing issues, you’ve never seen a cluster. The hundreds or thousands of processors used in a compute […]

As Apple continues to extend its hegemony over the music industry, a new initiative from an MP3 veteran could provide an alternative to the vendor lock between iTunes and the iPod player. Songbird is a new music player from a San Francisco startup with the unique name Pioneers of the Inevitable. Its founder and CEO, […]

At the turn of this century, semiconductor makers were facing a conundrum. Traditionally, they would simply bump up the clock speed to get more performance out of their processors. After doing this so effectively for two decades, the gimmick was running out of gas. More clock speed meant more heat, and processors have gone from […]

Rich Internet Applications  were supposed to be the solution to client-installed software. No more dealing with upgrades or version updates, because the latest version of the application would be sent down to the client and accessed via a browser. Then a funny thing happened: Supporters of RIAs and software as a service (SAAS)  started turning […]