Andy Patrizio

If nothing else, Attenex has perfect timing. The company spun out of a law firm that specializes in digging through mountains of documents to find the specific information you need. Formed in 2000, Attenex designs data-discovery and review software for companies and industries that frequently have to dig through terabytes of data. Its flagship product, […]

What a difference a month makes. Last month, Microsoft  said it had no security fixes. This month, it’s releasing five security bulletins, four of which are rated as “critical.” Notably absent from today’s fixes was anything for Office, even though there is at least one outstanding Word vulnerability, CVE-2007-0870, which has been around since February. […]

Microsoft  has a new toy for you 21st century Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor types: a beta version of software developer kit (SDK) documentation for Windows Home Server. The SDK documentation is designed to provide instruction to software developers looking to build applications on Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Home Server. With an increasing number of multiple […]

Salesforce.com is broadening its database capabilities by adding the ability to work with unstructured data to its AppExchange and CRM applications. The new Apex Content platform is based on technology acquired by Salesforce.com’s March acquisition of Koral Technologies. Koral was a startup of only nine employees. It was making the rounds at DEMO just last […]

AMD’s latest warning on Monday of a sales shortfall and a cut in capital expenditures is sure to give new legs to months-old rumors that a private equity venture firm might swoop in and take the struggling chip maker private. AMD  is certainly having a rough go. It’s already issued one warning and its stock has […]

It just goes to show nothing is safe. Late last year, some TomTom GPS devices were infected with a pair of low-grade Windows viruses. The iPod also found itself infected with a similar low-risk virus late last year as well. But neither of those two were a threat to the device or users. Both viruses […]

After taking last month off, Microsoft is back on track with its monthly release schedule. The company plans to release five fixes next week, four for Windows and one for the Content Management Server, an unusual target for a virus. Interestingly, Microsoft  has not announced any plans to fix Office vulnerabilities, even though there are […]

Sony PlayStation 3 users are engaged in a project to help understand, prevent and maybe even cure disease. And all they have to do is leave their machines on. Stanford University-sponsored project Folding@Home signed nearly 15,000 PS3 users over its recent launch weekend. Since then, the users have been cranking computer power to help the […]

Intel today announced a major aspect of its upcoming next-generation Centrino technology, codenamed “Santa Rosa.” It will incorporate its vPro desktop management technologies with the Centrino mobile platform, thus creating Centrino Pro. Notebooks based on Centrino Pro are expected to be available later this quarter. This will be the first mobile platform to support low-power […]

It’s nice to know we have passionate readers. A story I wrote a few weeks back — “Surprise, Microsoft Listed As Most Secure OS” — made that clear. However, there are some issues these readers noted, some more politely than others, that I want to address. Where necessary, I will include the reader responses in […]

Flash memory developer Spansion has combined three of its memory architectures onto one die, which will mean lower power consumption and expanded memory for cell phones. Spansion  began as a joint effort by AMD  and Fujitsu, but spun off on its own in December 2005. Its new MirrorBit Eclipse architecture combines three existing Spansion products […]

Intel is marking its 30th anniversary in the embedded systems market with some new chips and a stylish new motorcycle from Orange County Choppers that employs embedded technologies. The quarreling Teutul family, which achieved national fame for its motorcycle designs and profane verbal brawls on the Discovery Channel series American Chopper, presented the bike to […]