Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems today will announce it’s released a fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Sun is planning a formal announcement today at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The company said last November it intended to make the code […]

Ever feel like you need a map to keep up with all of the products coming from Intel? That’s because the company uses one to pick out its codenames. While headquarters is situated firmly in the heart of the Silicon Valley — Santa Clara, Calif., to be exact — the primary development is done in […]

Intel is the world’s largest chipmaker and extremely profitable, but it conducts itself as though it were in a dire fight for its life. At its annual Spring Analyst Meeting in New York, CEO Paul Otellini and other executives detailed the company’s turnaround with a hint that more layoffs are coming. Otellini laid out the […]

IBM’s chip researchers have been in anything but a vacuum lately. They have been busy developing a special polymer that can self-assemble, putting an insulator around wires at the nano-scale level and allowing the trend for smaller/faster/cooler chips to continue. IBM  modeled the concept after self-assembly seen in nature, such as the way a seashell, […]

Microsoft may be crowing about great sales from Vista, but vendors in the graphics sector of the computer industry are singing the blues. A report from Jon Peddie Research showed that sales were down even more than usual in the first quarter of 2007, with softness in laptop sales. Overall, the market was down 5.5 […]

It has long been assumed that corporate computers are relatively free of bots , pieces of malicious code hidden on a computer without the owner’s knowledge to perform spamming or other undesirable activities. After all, businesses are fairly militant about security and make antivirus software mandatory on all of their computers, right? Wrong. Support Intelligence […]

It was almost an afterthought announcement, but the news that Microsoft is making a portion of the .Net Framework’s Common Language Runtime (CLR) available for Mac and Linux demonstrates the software giant’s newfound willingness to loosen up. Microsoft  formally announced Silverlight at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference last week and gave a big, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Microsoft hosted a lecture on the future of software with an emphasis on software as a service (SaaS) . But the host had a different view on the SaaS future than some of its guests. Microsoft  sponsored the event along with Carnegie Mellon West and the University of California, Berkeley, at […]

Some of the worst spammers in the United States could be in for a rude surprise shortly, as Unspam Technologies has taken the first steps in tracking them down, with help from the ISPs. The company filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Eastern District of Virginia seeking the identities of spammers under the U.S. CAN-SPAM […]

The seemingly endless creativity and intense effort of spammers is as admirable as it is a waste of talent. As soon as spam filter vendors get the hang of blocking image-based spam, the spammers find a new method to completely invalidate it. Image-based spam exploded last year as a means of getting around the word […]

In its shift from being a dial-up Internet service provider to a free service, AOL.com is testing a revamp to its portal home page that has a very familiar look. The revised AOL.com should go live this summer. For now, the company is restricting access to the home page to a few occasional visitors to […]

E-mail security firm Websense has entered into an agreement to buy a competitor, SurfControl PLC, in a deal worth more than $400 million. The deal is a cash offer, with Websense  offering 700 pence per share for the London, England-based SurfControl. That comes out to approximately £201 million, or $400 million at current exchange rates. […]