Andy Patrizio

In the history of public distributed computing projects, there have been several common elements: each project had one entity behind it, no money was involved, and you always knew what your computer was crunching away at. CPUShare, however, is different in several ways. First, by registering with the service and installing the client software, you […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Did Sun Microsystems’ decision to adopt the GNU General Public License (GPL) cost the company one of its top talents? That’s what a lot of people have been wondering in recent weeks. As most every Java programmer might know by now, Sun decided to adopt the GNU General Public License v2 as its […]

The body of James Kim, the CNET editor who left his family to search for help after they were stranded in the Oregon mountains, was found on Wednesday, ending a long and emotional ordeal that began on November 25. He was 35. Kim and his family were stranded in deep snow while driving on a […]

AMD today announced it has begun manufacturing Athlon 64 processors using a 65nm manufacturing process, which will yield greater energy efficiency and a more processors during manufacturing. The change is just to the Athlon X2 line of processors for desktop computers and involves the dual core Athlon 64 X2 4000+, 4400+, 4800+, and 5000+ chips. […]

The Attorney General’s office for the state of Washgington has its first notch under a new law designed to punish spyware makers and, in this case, make them pay. Attorney General Rob McKenna announced yesterday a $1 million settlement with Secure Computer LLC, over a case that was first brought in January. Under terms of […]

Sun Microsystems  is giving its Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS) a facelift with improved customization of content delivery to mobile devices. In the process, Sun is expanding the use of the CDS to other industries that want to deliver content to cell phone users. There are three key new features in the CDS. The […]

Antivirus vendor Sophos ran a little Windows Vista security test. Guess who failed? Third party Webmail providers. The company selected the ten worst examples of malware  from its top 10 threat list and sent them to a computer running Vista in User mode, which is more restricted and should limit the capabilities of malware on […]

Microsoft has a history of entering markets that it has previously overlooked. Its entry into the Web publishing market is no exception. But after years of minimal effort with FrontPage, Microsoft  is making another move with an entire suite around its Expression technology for both Web and application development. The company will release Expression Studio, […]

Windows Vista represents a change in strategy for Microsoft in many ways, especially with video cards. It also means a potential for new growth for the makers of those video cards, eventually. Microsoft hasn’t altered the overall look of Windows since the release of Windows 95 more than a decade ago. With Vista, Microsoft is […]

The New York Times has released the first public beta of the Times Reader, a Windows-based application that displays content from NYTimes.com in a more dynamic, interactive manner. The Times co-developed the Reader with Microsoft . While the Times Reader will run just fine on a desktop PC, the Times  is aiming for the mobile […]

Business Objects has jumped into the software-as-a-service (SaaS)  market with its acquisition of privately-held Nsite Software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition gives Business Objects  27,000 new customers, not to mention it accelerates the company’s efforts to deliver on-demand applications. The Nsite Application Builder platform enables customers to build Ajax-based applications. Developers […]

It’s been five years since Microsoft released a new client-side operating system. Although consumers will have to wait two more months before they can use Vista, businesses will have access to it today as part of the company’s launch. How quickly will they dive into the Vista pool? Projections for adoption range from almost immediately […]