Andy Patrizio

What does HP have up its sleeve? Following its $1.2 billion purchase of Pre maker Palm, the computing giant may be edging forward on rolling out its own slate or tablet PC powered by Palm’s webOS. That’s been HP’s rumored plan for some time, but with little evidence to back it up other than the […]

To hear Apple tell it, the iPhone 4 is the best-designed smartphone the company has ever made. Still, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was compelled to answer charges that his company implemented a faulty antenna design that negatively affects reception. Before he announced a fix to the problem, Jobs showed off several competing smartphones he claimed […]

The Droid proved to be a smash hit for both Verizon Wireless and Motorola, the Android-based smartphone’s manufacturer. Now both are at it again with the Droid X, a faster, redesigned edition of the popular device. But along with early signs that Motorola and Verizon may have another hit on their hands are reports that […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs cut short a vacation to at least temporarily resolve what some have called a serious public-relations disaster and others have deemed a non-issue with his company’s uber-popular iPhone 4s. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, Jobs begrudgingly decided to give away free rubber “bumpers” that fit around the outside of the fastest-selling […]

Fresh off of a better-than-expected second-quarter earnings report, Advanced Micro Devices said that it’s planning to bring its Fusion processor to market later this year, accelerating the release of a product that hadn’t been expected to appear before the first half of 2011. With Fusion, AMD is combining two CPU cores and two GPU cores […]

Enterprise Mobile Today has the latest update on the iPhone 4 antenna issue. This time, a publication is running claims from an Apple engineer that the very nature of the phone’s antenna was faulty and would not work properly. The engineer, whose specialty is antenna signaling, warned that the design would run the risk of […]

High-end Unix systems are not typically publicly-beta tested, but IBM found the last one it did for AIX, its flavor of Unix, worked so well it wanted to do it again. This version of AIX features some important changes, such as the addition of OS virtualization, allowing older versions of AIX to run in virtual […]

For all the hype that accompanied the run-up to Apple’s release of the iPhone 4, the aftermath has been anything but rosy. That’s because users have continued to struggle with dropped calls attributed to a glitch antenna. Now, Apple has released the beta version of iOS 4.1 to select developers, and plans to hold a […]

While Intel, the No. 1 chipmaker in the world, has shown a relative resistance to both the economic downturn as well as anything but continual growth, AMD hasn’t been as lucky — beset in recent years both by business woes and then the drop-off in IT spending. But AMD fans may have reason to rejoice: […]

It seems a golden age for the smartphone. According to a new survey from market-researcher ChangeWave, 16 percent of consumers plan to buy a new device in just the next 90 days. That’s up from 10 percent in a similar survey conducted three months ago. But those gains won’t be felt evenly across the sector. […]

While the Apple iPhone 4 has received high marks for its sleek looks and expanded features, those achievements are often being overshadowed in the press due to what’s been dubbed the “death grip” — a reported loss of antenna reception when the phone is held a certain way. While some reviewers noticed little impact of […]

Is the long-awaited IT buying cycle upon us? Analysts have been saying for some time that they expect an uptick in buying thanks to a growing interest in Windows 7 and the need to refresh desktops, notebooks and servers that companies have stuck with in the face of the faltering economy. Chip giant Intel is […]