Andy Patrizio

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The world is being “disrupted,” and that’s a good thing, said IDC. At its Directions show here this week, the company made some predictions regarding changes in IT and how to find the good in them. If you believe Frank Gens, senior vice president of research at IDC, one of those […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Server virtualization, the consolidation of physical servers on one powerful machine, has been a galloping trend inside major enterprises. So, it stands to reason that storage virtualization fits in that pattern, given the exploding universe of user-generated digital content. Storage virtualization was the topic of several sessions tracks here at the […]

PC maker Lenovo and IP telephony vendor Avaya  today announced a collaboration to integrate Avaya’s IP-based soft phones  into Lenovo’s ThinkPad laptops. Doing so will allow business users who use the two products together to make IP-based phone calls via the ThinkPad’s Internet connection, whether that’s at work while connected to the LAN or on […]

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz appeared before a crowd of analysts with Morgan Stanley this morning to explain why his company would fall short of the projected $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion it gave in earlier guidance. This comes after the disappointing fourth quarter of 2006. As a result, AMD  shares took a tumble along with […]

There are times when being late to market gives a vendor a chance to learn from others and come out with a better product as a result. This isn’t one of them. Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare antivirus software came in last in an evaluation of 17 antivirus programs in the AV Comparatives Web site’s bi-annual […]

The hint of a problem started with the closure notice in a CompUSA store near the internetnews.com San Francisco offices. Very quickly, it turned into an avalanche. CompUSA, the last remaining pure play computer retail store in the country, is closing 126 of its 229 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico by the […]

AMD is losing its patience with arch-rival Intel and venting its irritation over what it considers a lop-sided benchmark comparison. During this week’s launch event for the 690 chipset, Henri Richard, executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for AMD , vented a little spleen. “I think we’ve been too quiet. I’m sick […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), the next generation Java platform for mobile phones and other handheld devices. MSA is available now for mobile devices and Sun’s NetBeans development platform. Sun developed the MSA along with 13 other companies, including operators, OEMs and software vendors. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — AMD today announced the 690 motherboard chipset, the first fruits of its $5.4 billion merger with ATI Technologies last year. Integrated graphics have long been considered a performance laggard compared to discrete graphics, but AMD  said the 690 will provide performance comparable to its ATI Radeon X1250 GPU, a respectable, but […]

You’re probably familiar with SpeedPass, even if you didn’t have one. SpeedPass was a simple concept; an RFID  tag inside a keychain attachment that you waved in front of the Mobil gas pump. It recognized you by your keyring and were charged accordingly. No credit card needed, since your card was already registered to your […]

IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker shows a big growth in dollar sales for servers in 2006, but the number of units shipped was flat and even declined in some areas. Factory revenue for the worldwide server market was $15.2 billion for the fourth quarter of 2006, a 5.2 percent gain over the fourth quarter of […]

If there is anything resembling guaranteed employment any more, it’s reserved for Microsoft lawyers. Unless, of course, they keep losing as badly as they did last week. The company now finds itself in a legal imbroglio over its Office Live offering with Office Live LLC, a Los Angeles-based provider of online professional services. The suit […]