Andy Patrizio

Microsoft on Friday released Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC2), build 5744, which it expects will be the final build before the long-delayed operating system is released to manufacturing. “As we stated from the beginning of Windows Vista development, the quality of the product will always be our first priority. That said, Microsoft continues to […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ajax is an example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. And the big developers have all caught the Ajax religion. Sun  recently picked an Ajax architect to lead the company’s efforts while IBM  has partnered with the Open Source Dojo Foundation to help drive Ajax development. […]

CollabNet has released an update to CollabNet Enterprise Edition, a team software development system built for geographically distributed programmers. Version 4.5 “puts a stake in the ground” when it comes to supporting any development system. The platform is open and extensible to other application development tools. Data is exchanged through SOAP  interfaces, so if you […]

Amid growing concern for misconfigured security and smarter malware , Symantec and Intel are teaming up to provide a security layer that runs between the hardware and operating system. Symantec   and Intel  first discussed the issue last week at the Intel Developer Forum. As bad as things are in the home, workspace computing isn’t […]

McAfee on Tuesday announced it will acquire substantially all of the assets of Citadel Security Software for approximately $56 million in cash, plus an estimated $4 million in working capital reimbursement. With this purchase, McAfee picks up a security policy compliance and vulnerability remediation vendor that puts a layer of management over its low-level scanning […]

More than 250 hackers descended on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters last Friday, but in this case, they were welcomed by the management. The event was the first of what the company hopes will be many Yahoo Hack Days. Programmers came from all across the U.S. for a chance to pick the brains of Yahoo’s developers, […]

With its integrated development environment (IDE) software on the block, Borland is attempting to move into a very crowded and competitive field of software quality control with a new product line. The company today introduced Borland  Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM), which the company built on a combination of newly developed products such as CaliberIT, as […]

Autumn is apple-picking season, so somehow it seems appropriate that Apple  would do some picking of its own. Only in this case, it picked some bugs. The company released a batch of 15 fixes to security holes and vulnerabilities across the operating system and applications. The update brings the Macintosh OS to revision 10.4.8. The […]

ATI Technologies and researchers at Stanford University have found a way to use the high-powered graphics processing unit (GPU) on video cards to perform the number crunching needed for a scientific distributed computing project. The announcement is proof of concept for ATI , which is promoting the high-powered video cards as an alternative to CPUs […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Ten years ago, Unix was all about proprietary chipsets and Unix flavors. Since then, HP and SGI have ditched their homegrown chips and Unix in favor of the Itanium processor from Intel and Linux. This migration has picked up steam, with Itanium now accounting for 11.2% of all non-x86 server revenue, according […]

Microsoft has taken the wraps off the Zune digital media player, promising to release the would-be “iPod killer” on November 14 for a suggested price of $249.99. The price had been rumored to be $299, but then Apple introduced a 30 gigabyte iPod for $249 earlier this month; Microsoft had previously said to internetnews.com it […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid the Itaniums, Xeons and Core 2 Quads here at the Intel Developer Forum, perhaps the sleeper hit will turn out to be a USB initiative. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced it is now ready to certify devices for compliance for the Wireless USB specification, which allows for USB data transfers […]