Andy Patrizio

InetSoft Technology this week introduced iScope, a business intelligence  real-time visual reporting tool for analyzing business and operational data from multiple disparate sources in real-time. iScope combines InetSoft’s data block technology with a graphical interface that lets non-technical users build their own reports from any data source. The interface has an Excel-like row-and-column table, where […]

Malware  authors in Russia are now offering service contracts with their spyware. Yes you read right: You can now get a service contract to provide upgrades for spyware, Trojans, rootkits and key loggers, just like you get with your computers, Oracle databases and CRM software. You have to marvel at the sheer brass of it […]

The server market continues to grow at a healthy rate, with blade servers and x86 showing the greatest strength while RISC continues its decline, according to the 2006 worldwide server report just released from Gartner. Worldwide server shipments totaled 8.2 million units in 2006, an 8.9 percent increase from the 7.5 million shipped in 2005. […]

UPDATED: A federal jury in San Diego today ruled that Microsoft should pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 billion for copyright infringement related to the use of MP3-encoding technology. This will be the largest patent infringement ruling in history if it’s upheld. The jury decided that Microsoft infringed two Alcatel-Lucent patents in the Windows Media Player, including the […]

Cisco Systems issued an alert on Wednesday that the security of its IP-based phones could be compromised, allowing hackers to get around the security restrictions and change settings or issue a Denial of Service (DoS)  attack. The flaw affects two different models in Cisco’s  Unified IP Conference Station line, the 7935 version 3.2(15) and 7936 […]

Dell Computer , anxious to repair its battered image with the consumer public, launched a pair of Web sites designed to build bridges with its customer base and solicit user feedback. Founder Michael Dell, back in the saddle as the CEO, IdeaStorm and StudioDell at a Texas education reform conference. The news, designed to restore […]

IBM is offering game developers wrestling with its advanced Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) microprocessor in the PlayStation 3 a chance to pick the brains of the people who created the chip. The company is holding a developer jam session with Vivendi Games’ studios, including High Moon and Radical, this week at the High Moon Studios […]

Just because it’s a widely-held notion doesn’t make a claim true. Case in point: the “conventional wisdom” in recent years was that datacenters were consuming more than 13 percent of all power in the U.S. Toss that notion out the window. Or better yet, recycle it. A study sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and […]

Once again, a zero-day exploit has surfaced in a Microsoft product just days after Patch Tuesday. And, as has been the growing trend, the exploit is in Microsoft Office, not the operating system. The company is investigating new public reports of “very limited, targeted attacks” against Microsoft Word. This vulnerability exists only in Office 2000 […]

Computer firms are alerting their customers of an impending problem related to the change in daylight savings time next month, which could throw their computer clocks off by an hour. The issue stems from the change in dates for daylight savings time, that quaint tradition best defined by the phrase “spring forward, fall back.” In […]

IBM this week announced a breakthrough in microprocessor design that will greatly improve the performance of processors, particularly multicore processors. The breakthrough relates to the memory used in a Level 1, or L1 cache used in microprocessors. It’s the first level of CPU instruction cache for storing the most recent instructions. L1 caches use static […]

IBM introduced its newest server consolidation effort, a trio of p Series servers with the 64-bit POWER5 processor running Linux or its own AIX Unix operating system. The servers are aimed at companies suffering from server sprawl and offer a variety of virtualization functions that will help consolidate hardware. In addition to the new hardware, […]