Andy Patrizio

Thanks to continued strength in its services business, a jump in PC sales and some cost-cutting, HP on Monday reported an increase in profits despite a decline in revenue. The second-largest IT vendor in the world behind IBM, HP (NYSE: HPQ) reported sales for the quarter ended Oct. 30 reached $30.8 billion, down eight percent […]

Continued resiliency in the consumer market and an improving global economy has Gartner feeling more optimistic in its preliminary fourth-quarter PC sales forecast. The research firm now predicts worldwide PC shipments will total 298.9 million units in 2009, a 2.8 percent increase from 2008. It’s a marked improvement over the first half of the year, […]

Next year will begin a rapid transition to a new type of memory and it will require memory makers to be nimble financially and technologically to make the shift. This comes just as memory companies finally start to make money after years of bleeding red ink. What that means is not all of the memory […]

LOS ANGELES — On Oct. 28, 2008, Steven Sinofsky, then senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live, stood on stage at the Professional Developer’s Conference to announce the first preview release of Windows 7, the operating system that would succeed the poorly received Windows Vista. One year later, Windows 7 is out, earning excellent […]

Checks with desktop and notebook builders show that the red-hot chip market, which lit up in late summer in anticipation of the Windows 7 launch and eventual Christmas buying, is beginning to cool off. Such a cooling down is typical of the season. The first quarter is always down measurably from the fourth calendar quarter […]

LOS ANGELES – It has not even been three years since the release of Office 2007 but already a new version is in the works. One of the great challenges Microsoft always faces when releasing a new version of Office is convincing people to buy a new version when the old one works just fine. […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has yet to show signs that it’s seen the same boost from an expected resurgence in PC demand as have chipmakers Intel, AMD and nVidia — with the company today reporting third-quarter results that came in short of analyst projections. Dell, which has fallen to third place in the worldwide PC market, […]

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose more than 10 percent on Wednesday after the company announced plans to reduce a crippling debt, a step made possible thanks to its big settlement with Intel last week. AMD (NYSE: AMD) faces $3.2 billion in debt beginning to mature in 2012 at a very high interest rate […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft opened the second day of its Professional Developer Conference 2009 (PDC09) with the announcement of Silverlight 4 and a progress update on Internet Explorer 9. But the presentation began with a look back. The opening keynote came from Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division of Microsoft. One […]

Does the Web need another language? Runtime Revolution thinks it has one worth considering. Runtime Revolution Ltd. (RunRev) has introduced Revolution 4.0, the latest version of its natural language development environment that has its roots in HyperCard, the old scripting language used on Macintoshes back in the 1980s. HyperCard for Mac has long since been […]

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie speaks at PDC 09 LOS ANGELES — Microsoft kicked off its Professional Developer Conference (PDC09) with the announcement that its Windows Azure cloud platform would be available on Jan. 1, 2010, and new features and functionality would quickly follow suit. It was just a year ago here in the […]

The big spike in PC builds in the year’s second half helped to drive demand for parts and partially offset the huge drop in semiconductor sales earlier in the year, according to Gartner. Better yet, it sees a rebound coming as soon as next year. As a result of unexpectedly high PC build demand, the […]