Andy Patrizio

SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Gelsinger may not be the chief technology officer of Intel these days, but he sure sounded like it at his keynote on the second day of the Intel Developer Conference. In addition to discussing further the company’s new quad core CPUs, Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of the digital […]

SAN FRANCISCO –- Just a few years ago, the Intel Developer Forum seemed to be about everything but CPUs. Not this time. CPUs were the first, last and everything else that CEO Paul Otellini discussed here today. Having shed its distractions, a few thousand employees and some market share in the process, Intel is focused […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Like products, it seems concepts are getting version numbers. First there was Web 2.0. Now there is SaaS 2.0. High-tech officials floated the new term here at SaaScon, an event geared to foster discussion on the growing popularity of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Whereas Web 2.0 is built around user-driven content and interactivity, SaaS […]

If it’s September, then it’s time for Intel’s  fall Developer Forum, and this year, the company has more spring in its step. OK, so it just had to let go of 10,000 loyal staffers recently, on top of selling off its communications and signaling units. “They’re still working through some issues, but they certainly feel […]

As part of its previously-announced plans at a reorganization around a free service, AOL is adding a new senior-level executive, a Chief Privacy Officer. The news comes from an email sent to AOL employees by CEO Jon Miller and obtained by internetnews.com. In the lengthy (2,800 words) missive, Miller discusses the changes that will take […]

The VML exploit is growing quickly and a mass email attack could be just days away, warn security experts who are tracking the problem. The exploit was first discovered early this week by Sunbelt Software. The exploit is a buffer overflow in the Vector Markup Language (VML) library that allows for remote code execution. However, […]

Facing a potential launch delay in Europe due to complaints by Symantec and Adobe, Microsoft might just want to delay its American launch of Vista, too. So says a report from Gartner . On September 8, Microsoft said that it might delay release of Windows Vista in European Union (EU) countries due to concerns over […]

The VML exploit found earlier this week could prove to be a severe problem because it can take initiative without requiring any action on the part of the user. But so far Microsoft does not appear to be a big rush to fix the problem. Microsoft  has acknowledged reports from antivirus and anti-spyware vendors of […]

Mac fanatics are never happy to hear this, but outside of Apple , the biggest Macintosh developer is none other than Microsoft. Granted, the 180 developers in the Macintosh Business Unit, or Mac BU as Microsoft  likes to call it, is a pittance compared to the 5,000 working on Vista. But Microsoft’s continued support of […]

Just in case developers weren’t planning on supporting Windows Vista, Jim Allchin wants to make sure they do. The co-president of Microsoft’s  Platforms and Services group, who is retiring after bringing his baby to market, posted a lengthy update on MSDN aimed at encouraging developers to get on the Vista bandwagon. He reiterated the company’s […]

Never underestimate the stock market’s ability to overreact. A mild warning of advertising softness in its current quarter from top Yahoo officials sent the company’s shares down 12 percent in mid-day trading, and a lot of other tech stocks went down with it. Yahoo  Chief Executive Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker spoke at Goldman […]

Microsoft has begun the second public beta test for its new System Center Essentials 2007, a central management console targeted at small- to medium-sized businesses. Microsoft  has had a centralized desktop management offering for some time, Systems Management Server (SMS). However, SMS, which is being renamed to System Center Configuration Manager 2007, is geared at […]