Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems certainly is serious about its dedication to the AJAX technology, as the firm has joined a pair of alliances dedicated to improving the programming model and the overall state of AJAX. The two groups welcoming Sun are the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation. As part of the OpenAJAX Alliance, Sun will work with […]

A Microsoft without Bill Gates seems almost unimaginable for those who have grown up with the personal computing industry, but the day was inevitable. Even Bill Gates can’t stop time, although the Vista team probably wishes he could. The indifference from Wall Street, reflected in almost no real movement in Microsoft’s stock, is perhaps most […]

If you visit Netscape.com and think you’ve gone to community-driven news site Digg.com instead, you didn’t goof. Time-Warner, which held on to the Netscape.com portal even after AOL shed the Netscape browser, plans to relaunch the portal with a more community-driven content style that looks a little too similar to another site for some people’s […]

Does the world need another browser, even when Microsoft’s grip on the sector has weakened? Yes, says Flock, whose eponymous browser has been called “Firefox with some extensions” by critics. First introduced last October, the Flock browser is built on the Firefox code base. Flock CEO and co-founder Bart Decrem was the head of marketing […]

Two earthquakes shook the Silicon Valley on Thursday. The first, probably noticed only by the roosters and newspaper delivery people awake at the time, measured 4.7 on the Richter scale. The second, eight hours later, was presumably caused by competitors jumping up and down for joy at the news that Bill Gates was retiring from […]

Microsoft seems to have gotten the message that there are other technologies in the data center. The software giant has formed the Interoperability Customer Executive Council, an organization made of up government and business representatives who will relay their concerns on making Microsoft products work better with other technologies. Ok, stop snickering. Especially you Java […]

Developing an Ajax-based application is not an easy task for a skilled programmer, let alone for a Web site developer whose skills are largely confined to HTML and cascading style sheets . Adobe Systems , which knows a thing or two about publishing, has what it thinks is a way to bridge that gap with […]

Malware continues to be a problem for customers, with many users unaware their systems are infected with some kind of hidden “bot” that steals their personal info or hijack’s their computer. “A lot of people have no protection, and even people who have protection, it isn’t complete,” said Peter Firstbrook, research director for information security […]

It’s the second Tuesday of the month. Do you know where your patches are? You might want to check. As part of its monthly patch release schedule, Microsoft issued 12 security bulletins today that cover 21 vulnerabilities. The bugs fixed by the patches affect Windows, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. They cover […]

Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s rock star blogger and one of a few people who helped put a friendly face on a company often compared to the Borg from Star Trek, is leaving Microsoft to take a high-level position at a start-up podcasting firm. Scoble reported on his blog that he is leaving his position as a technical […]

While AMD and Intel continue to beat the drum about reducing power consumption in computers, new graphics processors from ATI and Nvidia are planning to engage in a gluttonous feast of wattage to the point that they will need their own power supplies. Hardcore PC enthusiast site Anandtech reports that at the Computex tradeshow in […]

In the 1800s, Italy was not the single nation as we know it today, but a splinter of several nation-states, some of which were under foreign control. A merchant marine captain and nationalist named Giuseppe Garibaldi would lead a movement that began at Sicily and moved north, eventually unifying the multiple city-states as a single […]