Andy Patrizio

It’s starting to feel like 2006 all over again, with Google on an acquisition bender. Its latest target is a company that assists in collaboration on Microsoft Word documents. Google is continuing to build up its on-demand Apps story with this buy, giving customers another reason to dump Office. Datamation has the story. Google is […]

Thanks to a lot of pent-up demand ahead of the highly anticipated release of Windows 7 last fall chipmakers recorded unexpectedly strong sales growth in the third and fourth quarter of last year. But, as Hardware Central explains, early checks of the semiconductor supply chain suggest that momentum won’t carry over into 2010 even though […]

Research firm Gartner has offered a hopeful forecast for PC sales this year that suggests the tech sector is poised for a rebound. The group is projecting global units shipped to jump 20 percent this year, with dollar sales forecasted to increase by 12 percent. Significantly, Gartner’s forecast for brisk IT spending substantially raises the […]

Apple’s patent-infringement lawsuit against HTC came like a bolt from the blue, and the technology community is still buzzing about it. After nearly a week to digest the news, many pundits and analysts have concluded that it’s really less about HTC, the handset maker, than Google, the search giant whose tentacles have been steadily expanding […]

Intel is wagering that its Atom processor is more than a one-trick pony. While Atom’s won its fame based on its low-power, relatively potent performance in today’s netbooks, Intel envisions the chip playing a lead role in storage servers for home offices and small businesses. The idea is that the tiny power draw, coupled with […]

Just as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised last January, Sun Microsystems will be a contributor to Oracle’s top and bottom lines, eventually raising earnings per share by about $0.15, according to a new financial analysis from UBS Investment Research. Longer-term, it’s still hard to project the overall impact of Sun because its server business was […]

For two years, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, sometimes known as NSPD54, was a classified government secret. No more. White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt announced at the RSA show that the plan is being made available to the public for the first time. eSecurity Planet has the story from the show in San Francisco. […]

At RSA this week, Microsoft’s Scott Charney, head of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, described malware-infected PCs as a threat to the rest of the network. It’s not a new concept, but Microsoft — fresh off its legal victory that enabled it to take down the massive Waledac botnet — is proposing a somewhat radical solution: […]

The Internet is getting even more dangerous, if that’s possible. Now, instead of just blinding blasting spam and malware all over the place, the criminal element are picking specific targets, to steal specific data. eSecurity Planet has the report from the RSA Conference. SAN FRANCISCO — With enterprise data growing at an overall rate of […]

Graphics chip supplier Nvidia is always on the lookout for new market opportunities and netbooks is one it’s going after aggressively. HardwareCentral has the story on Nvidia’s latest Ion chip and why it promises to boost netbook performance. Nvidia has announced the release of the second generation of Ion, its graphics platform for Intel Atom […]

IBM is taking aim at the venerable x86 architecture with the new eX5 — an enhancement it sees as overcoming some of the shortcomings of x86, like limitations on memory. The idea is that servers will benefit from being able to access more memory more quickly, rapidly improving efficiency and in time reducing server underutilization […]