Andy Patrizio

Apple is doing a little shifting around of the iPhone’s internals in preparation for Verizon, while on the iSlate side, it appears the purchase of PA Semi is ready to pay dividends. Those are the claims from Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar. In separate interviews with The Street.com, Kumar said he’d confirmed the decision for […]

Dell today announced it has chosen AT&T as its exclusive U.S. carrier for its upcoming lineup of Android-based smartphones, known as the Mini 3. Dell has already chosen China Mobile, Vodafone and Claro Brazil as partners outside the U.S. But Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) still has not given out much information on the Mini 3, other […]

On a relative scale, the news isn’t earth-shattering. But in its own way, Sony’s announcement today that it will support SD/SDHC and MicroSD cards is indeed big news, given the firm’s track record. Sony has for decades marched to its own drummer, and more often than not, failed spectacularly due to one screw up or […]

T-Mobile USA has completed a nationwide deployment of HSPA 7.2, a faster 3G technology that will double the speed of its high-speed data and voice system across the country and set the stage for an eventual tripling of speed. The first carrier to embrace Google’s Android platform, T-Mobile USA is the fourth-largest mobile carrier in […]

Apple is diving headlong into the mobile advertising business with the purchase of Quattro Wireless, a mobile ad firm that was the No. 2 player behind AdMob, which is in the process of being acquired by Google. While Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wrestles with a regulatory review and advocacy groups’ opposition to the deal, Apple, with […]

The latest gossip around the forthcoming Apple tablet seems to be solidifying around the date and form factor, and a fresh batch of figures from the company suggest that Apple could enter the market with a much stronger position than other tablet devices. For starters there is the enormous strength of the App Store market. […]

The tech world is abuzz with talk of tablets, chiefly what will Apple introduce? But as Datamation reports, there are a number of other interesting entries going public with their plans already. The tablet device market is as busy as the Android phone market these days, with new contenders entering daily. The latest entrants? Freescale […]

AMD is bringing its ‘Vision’ branding campaign to business. As HardwareCentral reports, the chipmaker is building on a consumer program that places more emphasis on how the products can help buyers than technical specs. Advanced Micro Devices has extended its Vision branding program from consumer PCs to include small and medium businesses (SMBs). Vision, announced […]

Datamation reports that Solid State Drives will get more consistent performance thanks to a firmware update for systems running Windows 7. Corsair Memory and OCZ Technology Group, two of the leading suppliers of DRAM- and flash-based memory used in the making of solid-state drives (SSDs), have issued firmware updates to add a feature that will […]

The chip makers had a rocky 2009, no question about it. They make the basic components to products ranging from cell phones to cars and sales of just about everything came to a sudden stop. But they have weathered the storm, continued to innovate and are going into 2010 with all new products. How will […]

Some lawyers are getting little vacation this holiday season. As HardwareCentral reports, AMD and several graphics card makers have been sued over alleged patent infringement by Richtek Technology. A Taiwanese analog integrated circuit (IC) designer has filed a patent infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and four graphics […]

Datacenters continue to evolve. ServerWatch looks at developments over the past year and what to expect in 2010. If this past year in datacenter technology could be summed up in one word, it would be “rethinking.” For the last several years, it seemed like people just threw together datacenters all into one or more buildings, […]