Andy Patrizio

This one just makes me smile. The infamous Twitter exploit that made it possible to force people to follow you wasn’t the work of nefarious hackers in Russia or Eastern Europe, it was simply a metalhead speaking in Internet slang. It started when a Turkish fan issued a blog post (here in Turkish. Google Translate […]

One of the lingering questions surrounding the possibility of a Verizon iPhone is how long the Apple/AT&T exclusive contract runs. The current view is that it runs three years, which would have it ending this year, while back when the deal was first announced, USA Today reported the deal was five years. This end date […]

IBM has designs on doubling in size in the coming years, and plans to do so around its core competencies. While the company plays in many areas, it prefers to focus primarily on the high margin, high income businesses like systems, software and services. So distractions have to be removed. A semiconductor analyst believes he […]

Companies large and small are warming to the idea of moving their data centers to cloud-based environments, according to the latest market survey by IDC, a trend that could pay huge dividends for server manufacturers in the next few years. IDC says 122,615 servers were deployed in private clouds in 2009 and that installed base […]

Smartphones continue selling like hotcakes, driven largely by the still white-hot interest in the Apple iPhone, despite the original version having gone on sale almost three years ago. The phone’s continued demand, coupled with new superstars like Android-powered handsets, has led to a surge in sales for smartphones across the board. Enterprise Mobile Today takes […]

Clearwire has been the first of the so-called “4G” networks to begin building an advanced wireless data network, but it has gone with the WiMAX technology instead of the more popular LTE technology that the major carriers have embraced. That has changed. Intel, one of its biggest investors and proponent of WiMAX, has changed the […]

By concentrating on developing advanced new technology, Microsoft’s research arm has contributed technologies that have made their way into scores of the company’s products. This week, Microsoft Research gave a peek into what it’s been cooking up at its Silicon Valley research center, showing off new technologies not quite ready for winding up on store […]

Steve Jobs has never had much in the way of kind words for netbooks. During the launch of the iPad, the Apple CEO quipped that “netbooks aren’t better at anything” — thus making them a useless category between smartphones and notebooks. Not surprisingly, it’s the netbook category of products that some observers saw being most […]

The iPhone’s been a smashing success for both Apple and its exclusive U.S. carrier partner, AT&T. But rumors and speculation have been nonstop for ages about an iPhone for Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest carrier. Now, market researcher ChangeWave has tested the waters of Verizon’s mobile subscriber base and found that a majority of them […]

With the release of the iPad, which is basically a larger version of the iPod Touch, it seemed like developers would have a good excuse to jack up prices for applications. Thus far, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Of course, the product is only a month old, too, so you never know. So […]

Intel’s Atom first debuted as netbooks were just taking off, and the low-powered chip family is credited with helping the category grow. But the world’s largest chipmaker is far from the only player in the market for small, super-energy-efficient chips, and with booming interest in smartphones and tablet PCs these days, it’s no wonder that […]

The usual pattern with semiconductor sales is a slow January, following Christmas, slowing down until spring, before sales start to ignite. Then you have people making purchases that were approved months earlier and consumers getting ready for back to school. So what happens when semiconductor sales don’t cool off like expected? That’s the question hanging […]