Andy Patrizio

SiteAdvisor, the domain risk assessor acquired by McAfee Associates last year, has completed an extensive scan of 265 top level domains (TLDs)  on the Internet, ranking sites by the percentage of malicious code found in visiting the site. The survey found that 4.1 percent of all Web sites pose some sort of risk to a […]

Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec sailed through the 802.11 Working Group, setting the stage for final approval some time in 2009. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group sent out a copy of Draft 2 two months ago, with a deadline of last Friday for submitting up or down votes. The final vote was 83.4 percent, […]

Intel  made an unusual discovery in its work on a solid state Flash drive: It could use the same technology at the bottom end of the technological scale as it could at the very top end. The chipmaker has entered the Flash drive market with its Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, which uses NAND  Flash memory […]

Netuitive has released Netuitive SI for VMware, a piece of management software aimed at balancing resource performance across virtual machines running on a single server. The software comes at an important time in the evolution of virtualization software; while several products that enable multiple pieces of software to run on one physical machine exist, there […]

Seagate on Monday announced a partnership with ASI Computer Technologies to deliver laptops with encrypted hard drives. The advantage of these drives is if the notebook is lost or stolen, the data on the drive is inaccessible. ASI provides the laptop equivalent of a “white box,” or an unbranded PC to value added resellers (VARs) […]

Nortel Networks  is taking a pretty severe beating on both sides of the U.S./Canada border. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charge the networking giant and several former executives with accounting fraud, and the Ontario Securities Commission announced a hearing into allegations of financial misconduct and negligence. The SEC formally charged Frank Dunn, Nortel’s former […]

How times change. Intel has a pair of new Xeon processors but it’s not touting the performance, speed, or cores. Instead, it’s bragging about how little power the processors consume. The new quad-core Xeon L5310 and L5320 processors run at 1.60 and 1.86Ghz, respectively, and consume just 50 watts, a considerable drop over Intel’s  current […]

Microsoft Exchange administrators might be losing more than one hour of sleep this weekend as a result of the early Daylight-Saving Time. But Microsoft says things are going according to plan. Daylight-saving time begins on the second Sunday of March this year, rather than the first Sunday in April; it will end on the first […]

Opinion: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, known for short as SOX, is one of those laws that was pushed through in reaction to a major issue without a whole lot of thought or debate. It’s now proving to be more than just troublesome; it’s becoming a detriment to the U.S. economy. In recent months, a […]

It would seem Microsoft has nothing to fix. Ok, stop laughing. Next Tuesday is the second Tuesday of the month, the traditional patch day for Microsoft, but the company has announced that there will be no new security bulletins released on that day. There will be an update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool and […]

UPDATED: Attention Blackberry addicts, your mastery of typing with both thumbs now has an application outside of just answering e-mails. FlipStart Labs, which was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, announced its plans to ship a super compact PC, almost as small as a Blackberry or other smartphone, with full Windows support. The first units […]

Sun Microsystems furthered its commitment to dynamic languages with this week’s announcement that its NetBeans Java development toolkit would offer support for Ruby  development. The NetBeans Ruby Pack is a plug-in to the NetBeans IDE  that provides support for both Ruby and JRuby, a pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs on the […]