Andy Patrizio

AMD may still be David to Intel’s Goliath, but the firm is gradually building its market share. Analysts credit AMD for its new multi-core offerings, which they say will help net it a greater share of the server market in future products. Datamation has the latest analysis of AMD and its competitive prospects in the […]

If the mobile wars of the future are to be fought and won by the developers, it’s looking like a battle between Google and Apple. A new survey from Appcelerator has found that Android narrowly beat out the iPhone/iPad as the most popular developer platform. Enterprise Mobile Today reports on the race between Google’s Android […]

Linux on netbooks was a resounding failure because people wanted the familiar. So Jolicloud is giving them both, Linux and the familiar. It’s using Ubuntu Linux to create a netbook OS that looks and behaves more like an iPhone than your traditional operating system. Can they do it? Linux Planet finds out. Jolicloud, a French […]

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is gunning for the mission-critical server space with the launch of the new Xeon 6500/7500 processor lines. It’s a bid that will see it taking on mainframes and RISC, but the company says that its newest offerings have the goods. In particular, the new models boast steep performance improvements and […]

It’s no secret that the iPhone owes much of its success to the App Store. But most of those apps are nickel-and-dime offerings — or free — that users can put on their phone without breaking the bank. When the iPad arrives in consumers’ mailboxes on Saturday, eager early adopters will have the chance to […]

For all the buzz and hype surrounding Apple’s unveiling of its iPad tablet device, the launch looks like it will get off to a choppy start. Facing inventory shortages attributable at least in part to supply-chain troubles in China, Apple is moving to fill its pre-orders, but will only have very limited stock to send […]

With Apple poised to release its iPad tablet this weekend, industry observers will be watching to see just how many of the much-discussed mobile devices Apple can get into buyers’ hands. After all, Apple continues to be plagued by rumors of production holdups affecting its hardware partners — one reason that some speculate is behind […]

Server sales may have been slumping of late, but that hasn’t stopped the chip makers from revving up their plans for a new crop of high-speed processors. The latest comes from AMD, which has disclosed the speeds and feeds of its new “Magny Cours” line of Opteron processors, which it says bests Intel’s latest Xeon’s […]

With their flashy looks, their support for mobile, downloadable applications, and the reams of press that devices like the Apple iPhone have generated, it should come as little surprise that smartphones are poised to overtake their “non-smart” siblings in the U.S. market by next year. Much of the trend is credited to the booming success […]

Palm’s long decline since its PDA glory days has been well documented. But after a woeful third quarter, speculation has intensified that the firm could be ripe for acquisition. The most likely buyers? Samsung and Nokia, according to one analyst, who sees the greatest value in Palm’s trove of patents. Enterprise Mobile Today has the […]

Did Verizon make it to your town to lay the fiber for its FiOS triple play service? If not, you might just have to stay with cable or DSL, as the telecom giant says it’s done building for the time being. Verizon could return to the FiOS build-out at some point, but doesn’t have any […]

In case you haven’t heard, smartphones are all the rage these days. And not surprisingly, all the fancy downloadable, mobile apps en vogue with smartphone users are leading to massive growth in mobile data, according to a new study from AdMob. How much growth are we talking? Try a 193 percent year-over-year increase in smartphone […]