Andy Patrizio

Appistry has updated its Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) to increase its scalability and reliability and allow older applications to work on the virtual Fabric network. EAF version 3.5 improves upon previous versions as a framework that allows developers to write scalable applications. It also allows Java and .NET applications to scale out across a number […]

A secretive, 10-year super printer, project by an Australian inventor has finally seen the light of day. Silverbrook Research said this week it has developed a new type of inkjet technology that’s five to 10 times faster than current inkjet printers. The company estimates printers based on its technology will sell for under $300 when […]

When it comes to technology leaders in semiconductors, Raytheon is not the first name that comes to mind. Or the second, third or fourth. But the company, which specializes in defense and aerospace technology, has come up with a powerhouse of a chip that could find its way into consumer products some day. The chip […]

Motorola today sharply revised its first quarter guidance down today, and provided a revised perspective on the full year that wasn’t too optimistic either due to much lower than anticipated sales at the company’s Mobile Devices business. The company said it would take steps to improve the financial performance of the struggling division. At the […]

UPDATED: Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec , no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors. The information was a part of Symantec’s 11th Internet Security […]

IDC is revising down estimates for server dollar and unit sales in the coming years, owing to the increasing popularity of virtualization  and more powerful servers where one does the job previously done by many. IDC already reported that unit sales have slid, while dollar sales are growing, an indication that fewer but more powerful […]

Despite a new operating system from Microsoft  and continued performance brawling between AMD  and Intel , the desktop PC market is looking rather boring for the next few years, with modest sales but no real surprises. That’s the jist of a new report from Gartner, which predicts worldwide PC shipments in 2007 will hit 255.7 […]

In yet another sign of its seriousness when it comes to open source, Sun Microsystems has hired Ian Murdock to be its first Chief Operating Platforms Officer. Murdock made the announcement on his personal blog. Murdock is the founder of the Debian Linux distribution. He first wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 while in college, […]

Data and identity theft are far and away the growth sectors among the criminal underground, according to Symantec’s 11th Internet Security Threat Report. The U.S. rates as the most popular target for theft. Every day, Symantec  scans the Internet, taking in several terabytes of data, to find “wild” viruses. But it also monitors the underground […]

AMD wasn’t just a thorn in Intel’s side, it took a measurable chunk out of Intel’s sales in 2006, according to a report from market researcher iSuppli. The company found that global semiconductor industry revenue rose by 9.3 percent in 2006 to $260 billion, but Intel  was on the decline. Its global sales dropped 11.1 […]

Intel is preparing its next generation of the vPro platform, codename “Weybridge,” for release in the second half of this year, featuring improved security and management capabilities. vPro is for the corporate customer as Centrino is for mobile and Viiv is for the consumer. While vPro technology has hardly become a household name, analyst Roger […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concluded the company’s Convergence 2007 conference on Wednesday with a demo of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live service, the first release of the company’s Dynamics software as a service. The Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM, code-named Titan, uses the same multitenant code base to deliver both on-premise software and software as […]