Andy Patrizio

A week before the release of Windows 7, an awful lot of fingernails are being chewed up. There’s a lot riding on it for just about everyone in the chain from Microsoft to retail. For Microsoft, it’s a chance to restore its name. CEO Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft’s reputation was damaged by Vista […]

This is not a good way to launch a whole new design of notebooks. Acer has been forced to issue a recall of the company’s consumer ultra low-voltage (CULV) laptops because they may overheat in certain conditions. The problem, though, is not in the Intel CULV processor but the super-thin design. The affected units are […]

The continued race to the bottom, or in this case to the smallest possible die size, is going to weed out all but just a few foundry players in the next few years. Gartner projects that by the time semiconductor process technology reaches 8 nanometers, there will only be four to eight left. The discussion […]

Both Gartner and IDC managed to agree on a few points regarding PC sales: China is pretty much the only country keeping the market in positive territory, and Acer has surpassed Dell to become the number two PC vendor in the world. That puts Acer ahead of plan. CEO Gianfranco Lanci had earlier predicted the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The semiconductor market is looking at a slow return to growth in the next four years. But it will be a modest return to expansion, tamped down not just economic conditions but by the fact that this market is already quite mature. That’s the sentiment of market researcher Gartner, which presented […]

IBM on Thursday announced it is raising full year guidance after a third quarter that exceeded analyst projections although revenue fell short of expectations. The company now expects 2009 earnings to be $9.85 a share, up from its previous projection of $9.70. The IT giant reported a third quarter profit of $3.2 billion, or $2.40 […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Larry Ellison enjoys the high profile perks that being a successful CEO of a massive company has to offer. That was evident today as he was joined on stage by a music and movie legend here at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. The funny part is the rock star and movie star are […]

Acer today introduced new laptops as well as its new Liquid smartphone. It’s all part of a push for new Google Android products but also a part of Acer’s Windows 7 strategy as well. The company has achieved its position as the number three hardware provider through growth and mergers and now is gunning for […]

Hewlett-Packard today unveiled a wide range of new computers ranging from family PCs to a 42-inch multi-touch screen that could play a role in the next generation of information kiosks. All are part of the No. 1 PC maker’s launch of new products around the debut of Microsoft Windows 7. The sweeping effort even entails […]

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) today blew past analyst projections to report sales and earnings very close to 2008 levels — a period before the economic downturn began in earnest. Even better, it gave fourth-quarter projections that put it back over the $10 billion range for the first time in five quarters. The chip giant reported after […]

Hitachi Data Systems is continuing its aggressive push into the storage market, today unveiling a new cloud storage software offering designed specifically to enable more rapid provisioning and deployment of storage systems without needing new hardware. The Hitachi Content Platform 2.3 (HCP) provides essential security, reliability and multitenancy for storage systems in cloud infrastructures and […]

Mac users running Mac OS X 10.6, a.k.a. “Snow Leopard,” have gotten a nasty surprise thanks to a bug that causes all of their personal data to be erased under certain conditions. The problem stems from users who log into the computer using the “Guest” account name. After logging off the computer and logging back […]