Andy Patrizio

Lenovo has updated its line of ultraportable X Series ThinkPad notebooks with the latest and greatest in technology from Intel plus improved security, battery power and wireless networking. The ThinkPad X61, X61s, X61 Tablet PC are the successors to the X60 line and feature Intel’s  Centrino Pro chipset, a.k.a. “Santa Rosa.” Centrino Pro adds vPro […]

The 2007 JavaOne conference was Sun’s most ambitious in years, in addition to its best-attended since the dot-com implosion earlier this decade. Doing demonstrations with pre-beta code caused a few implosions onstage during demos, but the audience understood what Sun was trying to do. The company introduced Java 12 years ago with the promise of […]

Open source developer CollabNet today announced it has bridged a major gap in its product line by allowing Java developers using Eclipse to directly interact with its source code management software. The enhancement is known as CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition. It will allow Eclipse developers to check in/check out code directly with Subversion, CollabNet’s open […]

Google has posted a Release Candidate of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, the latest version of its developer tool for building AJAX-based Web applications and sites. Bruce Johnson, technical lead on the project, announced the release candidate on a Google  blog. GWT 1.4 RC is the first release of the toolkit to make heavy use […]

Apple today announced it’s giving its floundering Apple TV something it has yet to gain, besides an audience: content. The company struck a deal with Google’s YouTube video streaming service to provide originally-created content on Apple TV. Separately, and perhaps because of the YouTube deal, Apple  announced it will offer a second line of Apple […]

ColdFusion is the latest Macromedia product to get a long-needed overhaul from Adobe Systems, with the announcement today of a beta release of ColdFusion 8. ColdFusion is a Web site development tool and previously part of the Macromedia family, which merged with Adobe back the 2005. The ColdFusion 8 public beta is a feature complete […]

Once again, the alarm bells are going off that the number of TCP-IP addresses available on the Internet are running low. This time, there are specific dates for when the addresses are predicted to run out. The IPv4 Address Report lists two possible dates for when the number of IPv4 dates will run out: April […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has adopted a vendor-developed specification designed to detect e-mail with bogus header information. The technology could help reduce spam and phishing attacks that clog Internet traffic. Yahoo  was the initial developer of the spec, called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), but other participants joined the effort, including Cisco, Sendmail and […]

Dell announced today that it will begin selling a Dimension desktop PC through Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. It’s hardly a major rollout; only the Dimension E521 will be sold beginning June 10 at 3,400 Wal-Mart stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Customers will have a choice of a […]

Spam is as big of a nuisance as ever. In fact a recent report by IDC said spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode. But despite the continued annoyance, more Americans are simply getting used to it and are accepting spam as a fact of […]

IT researchers Gartner and IDC both released first quarter 2007 server sales figures that show HP is flattening the competition, even the mighty IBM, although IBM is showing there’s still life left in its venerable mainframe. The two research firms are usually pretty close in their estimates and this quarter there were only a few […]

Intel has teamed with French-Italian semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics to form a new flash memory company in Switzerland to create memory for consumer and industrial devices. As part of the deal, Intel will sell all of its NOR flash resources to the newly formed company while STMicro will contribute its NAND  and NOR  flash assets. “The […]