Andy Patrizio

The market shift away from desktop PCs in favor of laptops has benefited Intel very nicely, because Intel was first to the mobility market and has made a significant investment in its mobile platform, called Centrino. AMD, its scrappy competitor in the microprocessor market, has finally gotten serious about mobility and is increasing its efforts […]

Security firm Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a disturbing trend among the criminal syndicates that write and distribute botnets . Instead of relying just on individual PCs, they are now taking advantage of loopholes and laxness to set up shop in datacenters. Botnets, a collection of computers infected with some kind of malicious program, have traditionally […]

In late November, many thousands of Sun Microsystems employees got the word that effective January 4, their services will no longer be required. While the cuts were expected, the extent of the layoffs are more far-reaching than might be expected. In addition to the usual suspects being hit in a merger — accounting, HR, sales, […]

Those ailing 27-inch iMacs are getting a little fix from Apple, in the firm of a graphics firmware update. The patch fixes flickering and video corruption problems Apple attributes to the ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 video cards. The fix requires Mac OS X 10.6.2. The new iMac 27-inch model has had a rough […]

Tiny Psystar, would be Mac clone maker, lost its day in court to Apple and appeared ready to shut down operations. But as Hardware Central reports, the company plans to keep going. Mac clone maker Psystar is not dead after all. The company reopened its Web site Saturday with nothing but one software product for […]

Talk has been brewing for years about getting integrated CPU and graphics onto the same chip. Now the major PC chipmakers are finally poised to make it happen. In the latest turn of events, and on the heels of unveiling the new Core i3 and i5 processors with their conjoined GPU and CPU designs, Intel […]

It’s no secret that iPhone users are seriously unhappy with AT&T’s network performance. Even Apple itself ridiculed AT&T publicly at the launch of the iPhone 3GS last summer. Well, they may not have too long to wait for another option if recent reports are true. There’s been growing speculation in analyst research notes and news […]

After an 18 month uphill battle, Psystar, the tiny PC clone maker from the Miami, Florida area that was making PC clones pre-loaded with Apple’s Mac OS X, has shuttered its doors. The move comes on the heels another legal ruling that went against the would-be David in its battle with the Goliath of Cupertino. […]

More good news for the semiconductor sector: A report finds AMD and Intel benefiting from continued demand for their chips even as new models lurk just around the corner. At the same times that OEMs aren’t waiting on the new chips, they’re also seemingly pushing ahead with orders despite seasonality. HardwareCentral has the story. Even […]

Some time back I first wrote of a smartphone from China called the xpPhone, since it would use an embedded AMD Geode processor and boot Windows XP. Up to now, all we’ve had are screen shots. Well, the folks at the In Technology Group Ltd. in China have posted the first video of the phone […]

Even though we’ve just gone through a major surge in PC sales thanks to Windows 7 and the approach of Christmas, Intel is moving forward with its plans to retire the Penryn generation of processors. At CES, the company’s CEO Paul Otellini will deliver a keynote address where he formally introduces 17 new Nehalem generation […]

iPhone? What iPhone? Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, shrugged off significant challenges from Apple’s iPhone and a host of new phones running Google’s Android OS to exceed Wall Street projections for its third fiscal quarter and raised its guidance for Q4, sending its stock up in after-hours trading. For the […]