Andy Patrizio

Intel and AMD have been running a two-pronged war, one product and one legal-related. Late last week, AMD won the latest legal tussle, although it’s a relatively minor one in what’s likely be a protracted struggle. Last Friday, Vincent Poppiti, the court appointed Special Master who is in charge of overseeing discovery in the antitrust […]

You faithfully download all of the monthly patches that Microsoft issues on Patch Tuesday, plus you’re running Symantec Antivirus and update it regularly. Think you’re safe? If you’re a corporate user, think again. Security firm eEye Digital Security has posted a warning about the spread of a new virus affecting the Symantec Antivirus application. The […]

A few year back, Southwest Airlines ran a commercial in which a woman, sitting in her work cubicle, idly clicked on an e-mail attachment, which then declared she had launched “The Pink Slip Virus.” It said her whole company would be infected, it would be traced back to her, and “good luck finding another job.” […]

Adobe Systems on Friday released a beta version of Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 3 (CS), the next generation of its industry-standard digital image editing software. This beta release is a first, as it is a Universal binary that will run on both Intel-based Apple  Macintoshes and x86-based Windows PCs. The final version is on track […]

Now that it has absorbed ATI Technologies, AMD today laid out a strategy and plan for the next two years that involve integrated graphics processing technologies at every level. AMD  told financial analysts it expects to save $150 million in 2007 thanks to synergies with ATI, double its initial estimates of $75 million in savings. […]

Adobe Systems is giving its ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) a boost with the addition of XML support. The experimental project from Adobe Labs, code-named Mars, is a plug-in for the Adobe Acrobat Reader and incorporates SVG, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, OpenType, Xpath and XML standards in a new ZIP container. It provides more dynamic content […]

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard further cemented what has always been a strong business partnership with the announcement of a three-year, $300 million agreement to offer an expanded portfolio of enterprise solutions. The two companies said the investment will cover collaborative efforts in solution development, testing, validation, deployment, and joint sales and marketing. This makes HP  the […]

The Videogame Console Class of 2006 is head, shoulders and then some above previous generations of consoles and even some classes of desktop PCs. And it seems their developers have ambitions to match the horsepower of their consoles. Sony  and Microsoft  made features like DVD playback and Internet play secondary to the videogame experience with […]

Microsoft issued its monthly batch of fixes for its software line, which included two more fixes than expected to address recently discovered security vulnerabilities. The company planned to release six security bulletins covering nine vulnerabilities, but a seventh bulletin covering two flaws in the Windows Media Format were added at the last minute. “We note […]

Microsoft is entering a new market it said has been held back by a lack of standards and uniformity: robotics. The technology has been widely used for years for such applications as the assembly of automobiles and, more recently, consumer devices like the iRobot Roomba, an automated floor vacuum. The challenge to achieving even broader […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), the latest edition of the Java platform for desktop computers and servers, and the first to be developed in an open manner. Java SE 6 is the first iteration of the platform built under the new open source regime at […]

Microsoft’s monthly patch day will be next Tuesday, December 12, and this month’s batch appears smaller than the last few. The company will issue five security bulletins for Microsoft Windows, and one for Visual Studio. With the Windows updates, at least one will be Critical, and some of them will require a restart. The Visual […]