Andy Patrizio

Coming off the Christmas season, Intel reported respectable sales and income and expects a much better year ahead. Intel reported earnings of $1.61 billion, or 27 cents per share, for the first quarter of 2007 after the market closed on Tuesday. That’s an 18 percent improvement over net income of $1.36 billion, or 23 cents […]

Day two of the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China, geared its announcements toward the smaller end of the systems scale to complement yesterday’s focus on the desktop and server space. The next generation of the company’s Centrino mobile processor technology, code-named Santa Rosa, is due in May, with laptops based on the technology expected […]

Sun Microsystems may have embraced the Xeon and Opteron processors, but that doesn’t mean it’s ignoring its commitment to its UltraSPARC line of processors. Today, the systems vendor and long-time partner Fujitsu unveiled a limited line-up of servers running Solaris on UltraSparc chips. The two companies have jointly developed a series of new midrange and […]

When Intel began a series of cost-cutting measures late last year, the Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was going to be one of the casualties. Normally, IDF is a twice-yearly ritual, held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, but Intel was ready to make it a once-a-year event. Instead, Intel  took the event on the road […]

Google announced late on Friday that it would purchase online advertising firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash from its two primary owners, the private equity firms of Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. In addition to picking up a second form of advertising to complement its AdSense technology, Google gets demographic data and the […]

A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication. Text messaging and voice over IP (VoIP)  calling, especially among younger consumers and workers, are becoming the communications means of […]

Apple today announced it would delay the release of OS X 10.5, codename Leopard. The reason? Apple said it needs to pull away talent working on the operating system to work on its highly touted iPhone scheduled for release this June. Apple  initially planned to release Leopard at its Worldwide Developers Conference in early June, […]

IBM has found a way to make three-dimensional semiconductor design and fabrication economical in mass quantities, which could mean radical breakthroughs for performance and power savings. Semiconductor design has, for the most part, been two-dimensional and flat across the silicon. The new IBM  design, called 3D stacking or “through-silicon vias,” allows for stacking elements of […]

VMware has become synonymous with virtualization, but Microsoft  is in the game, too. Today, however, the software giant told its customers it will have to wait for its latest. In a blog post, Mike Neil, general manager of Microsoft’s virtualization strategy, said that Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1, which has been in beta […]

If neither Blu-ray nor high-definition DVD take off as the successor to standard definition DVD, there will be fingers flying from both sides. Each camp will blame the other, with members from both trumpeting the formats’ pointlessness in the face of downloading/on-demand video. Whatever the reason, the split in HD DVD format has irritated many […]

Cable giant Comcast announced an agreement to purchase Fandango, the popular movie ticket and show time information site. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fandango is one of the most popular film sites, with an estimated four to five million unique visitors per month. Comcast has its own consumer portal, called Comcast.net, which has […]

Talk about timing. Just as Microsoft was issuing its monthly array of patches, three new vulnerabilities for Office were exposed. Fortunately, it was not one of those situations where the viruses were timed to come out after Patch Tuesday. Rather, it was a bit of good luck. McAfee’s Avert Labs reports there are three exploits. […]