Andy Patrizio

Intel knows that smartphones are quickly replacing PCs as the world’s most important and coveted consumer electronics devices. For years the company has been looking for a way to impose its will and brand on this fast-growing industry. As Enterprise Mobile Today discovered, Intel’s wait may soon be over. According to a German newspaper, the […]

VMware has come out with a significant update of its vSphere virtualization management technology. With version 4.1, the company is offering a dramatic increase in scale, doubling the number of resource pools it can manage. VMware’s vSphere 4.1 can manage as many as 3,000 virtual machines in a cluster, and delivers a performance boost of […]

BlackBerry OS 6 is going to be do or die for Research in Motion if the company that once dominated the smartphone market wants to fend off those upstarts Apple and Google. With so much attention on the two new players, RIM decided to grab a little attention by releasing a teaser video highlighting the […]

The whole iPhone “death grip” controversy is finally getting to the proof stages, as testers and evaluators are conducting serious lab work to determine if the anecdotal reports of the iPhone 4 losing signal strength when gripped a certain way. Enterprise Mobile Today reports that Consumer Reports, a well-regarded tester of all things consumer-oriented, has […]

In its 12th year of production, Intel’s Celeron processor is still used a variety of desktop and notebook computers around the world. The fact that it’s almost a non-factor in the U.S. hasn’t dissuaded the chipmaker from keeping it alive. But as Hardware Central reports, at least one publication is claiming the end is near […]

The law of supply and demand is becoming very apparent to the Android handset market. Google’s Nexus One made LED-based phones appealing, and even if they didn’t want a Nexus One, everybody wanted one an LED screen. There’s just one problem: LED screens are hard to make. The result has been some Android phones are […]

No company gets the rumor mill churning like Apple. Will there be a tablet? What can I look for in the next iPhone? Now, the gossip has turned to the iPod Touch. Apple has made a habit of updating its iPod line in September, as the back-to-school season is getting in full swing and the […]

Consumer confidence is considered one of the major economic indicators for overall economic health, but business confidence is an important measure, too. Firms with long purchase lead times, like heavy industries, have a window into the economy because their sales are not impulse buys, they are made after careful deliberation. The IT industry is one […]

There’s a very good reason why chip firms are important financial bellwethers in the tech industry: the world runs on chips. They are found in everything from a phone to a car. So if they are selling well, that means other goods are selling. The chip sector was among the hardest hit in the 2008 […]

With Apple poised to release its second-quarter results later this months, several industry observers are making predictions on how it will fare — and they’ve got good news. Not only is Apple expected to post strong numbers, but the company is also expected to be able to avoid several issues that threatened to cut into […]

AT&T has weathered a fair bit of criticism for all manner of issues associated with the iPhone, Apple’s wildly popular smartphone that’s locked into its network in the United States through an exclusive agreement. The latest: conspiracy theories welling up across the Web that AT&T has been throttling or capping uploads on the device. Not […]

With high demand continuing to strain the supply of parts, Intel and AMD appear poised to report solid balance sheets for the second quarter, a period that’s been historically weak for the chipmakers. That imbalance between supply and demand also bodes well for the two chip giants heading into the second half of the year, […]