Andy Patrizio

Comcast has decided to rebrand its products and services to something that sounds more appropriate for a high-end video card or an energy drink. Starting in 11 cities next week and eventually going nationwide, Comcast’s cable TV, phone service and Internet service shall be known as Xfinity TV, Xfinity Voice and Xfinity Internet. The corporate […]

Google certainly has seeded the market for smartphones with its Android operating system. There seems to be a new one every week. So what makes the latest from Motorola, called Devour, so special? EnterpriseMobileToday finds out. Click on the graphic for a larger view. Source Motorola Motorola today announced its latest Android phone, the Devour, […]

Building an application on Salesforce’s Force.com platform used to require coding in HTML, JavaScript and Flash. Now it’s as easy as placing a few boxes, setting some fields and drawing connections. eCRM Guide gets the details. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today introduced Visual Process Manager for Force.com, a new rapid application development tool for Force.com users […]

Better late than never, right? Intel has finally brought forward its Tukwila processor, introducing the world to the latest offering in its troubled Itanium line. Hardware Central has the details on the new processor, and takes a look at where it fits into Intel’s roadmap. Intel has finally shipped “Tukwila,” the long-delayed quad-core Itanium processor […]

With datacenter managers under the budgetary gun while also struggling to squeeze the most efficiency out of their current setups, all eyes are on figuring out ways to assess power consumption. Fortunately, one industry group is proposing a solution: A new benchmark designed to help buyers and IT managers gauge how much power a server […]

Apple fanatics can take a deep breath. The company’s 27-inch iMacs are still in production and are still for sale, despite widespread rumors saying otherwise in the blogosphere. Hardware Central explains why some customers are still waiting for their new iMacs and the company’s explanation for what went wrong. Apple says it hasn’t halted production […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) on Tuesday issued a point update to its iPhone OS, making only a few fixes to the phone’s software despite not having patched it in months. It’s likely there won’t be a major fix until the release of OS 3.2, which will likely coincide with the release of the iPad slated for […]

Google is often described as a “search giant” but the Silicon Valley company is branching into other areas including hardware as evidenced by the recently introduced Nexus One smartphone. HardwareCentral has the story on what may be Google’s next effort, a tablet computer that would once again put the company at odds with its sometime […]

Cobbling together supercomputing clusters from commodity hardware isn’t new, but it may prove to be a smart call for spending taxpayer money on a new U.S. Air Force supercomputer. The idea is an expansion of an existing cluster created from IBM Cell-powered Sony PlayStation3 game consoles, and when it’s done, could result in researchers having […]

HTC, the Taiwanese builder of the Nexus One smartphone and a variety of other Android-based phones, has submitted documentation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that point to signs of a new and possibly different Nexus One phone for the A&T network. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) sells the HTC-made phone under its own brand name. Thus […]

One of the few surprises to accompany the release of Apple’s iPad last week was its price. That is to say, the long-awaited tablet will cost much less than many had expected. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall has an idea why. Running through the cost of the components, Marshall says the device could be highly […]

We knew it was coming — and now, we know the details. ServerWatch takes a look at the changes Oracle will be making to the former Sun product line. As a result of the purchase, a sweeping array of products will be impacted, ranging from Star Office (which escapes with a rename) to the Sun […]