Andy Patrizio

Nokia has filed suit against a number of top LCD panel manufacturers, accusing them of collusion and price fixing of flat screen displays all the way back to 1996. Because LCD panels are a relatively recent development, Nokia has included makers of CRT-based displays as well. The lawsuit (here in PDF format) was filed on […]

Just days ago, Apple had Mac clone maker Psystar on the ropes and was poised to deliver a knockout. But instead, the Cupertino, Calif. computer giant agreed to settle its 17-month lawsuit against the firm, leaving Psystar in business. But it’s not exactly cause for celebration for the smaller firm. In court filings this week, […]

Just days before the launch of his portable Internet tablet, publisher and entrepreneur Michael Arrington said he was double-crossed by his Asian business partner and now the whole project has gone up in smoke. Arrington, the founder of the news site TechCrunch, had a side project to create a tablet called the CrunchPad. He first […]

The two bits of good news in the third quarter server market survey from Gartner is that the decline in sales and average selling prices (ASPs) has slowed considerably. The bad news is that both figures are still dropping. Gartner reported today that worldwide server revenues fell by 15.5 percent in Q3 to $10.7 billion, […]

While thousands of retailers around the country are gearing up for Black Friday and the start of the holiday shopping season, Mac clone seller Psystar may not be among them if Apple gets its way. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is winding up to deal the firm a knockout blow, asking a court for a permanent injunction […]

Wireless broadband provider Clearwire announced this week that it is has secured another $920 million in debt to help it finance continued construction of its 4G wireless network, which is being rolled out across the globe. The $920 million comes from 12 percent senior secured notes, due 2015 at an issue price of 97.9 percent. […]

The recent Top500 supercomputer list showed that high-performance computing (HPC) is pretty much an IBM and HP world. The two IT giants had 394 of the 500 systems on the list between them (HP with 209, IBM with 185); the next closest competitors were SGI and Cray, with 19 systems each. However, there’s a European […]

IBM has confirmed the end of the road for its Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor, the hybrid multicore processor used in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console — and little else. David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing, said in an interview with the German site Heise Online that the current PowerXCell-8i processor will be the […]

Google today rollout out an update to its Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry, raising the limits on the number of users who can simultaneously access the Google services. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the Connector in May and released it in August, but it previously only worked with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and had a limit […]

After sitting on the sidelines for a few weeks, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) jumped into the war of words between AT&T and Verizon Wireless over 3G coverage with a pair of television commercials sticking up for its exclusive U.S. mobile partner. Apple unleashed the hounds on Verizon on Monday with two ads that show an iPhone […]

Three details – prices, speeds and feeds – are the last details Intel likes to release when introducing new parts, but thanks to a German e-tailer, some of those details are out. Next year, the Clarkdale CPU family will hit the market. These will be 32nm dual-core – all codenames with “-dale” are dual-core, while […]