Andy Patrizio

HP DreamScreen. Click to enlarge. Source: HP Hewlett-Packard today introduced two new “smart screen” devices — aimed at going a step beyond the digital picture frame with a display that includes streaming multimedia and social networking support. Despite the thin, flat, sleek design, the new HP (NYSE: HPQ) DreamScreen models aren’t a new entry in the tablet […]

Apples ripen in sunshine, but Apple the company ripened thanks to some hot air. Rumors of new MacBooks, a target price upgrade and a lengthy and all together positive segment on CNBC stock picker Jim Cramer’s TV show did wonders for the company’s stock today. Research firm Wedge Partners issued a note on Wednesday floating […]

ARM, the UK semiconductor vendor known for its embedded chips used in devices like the iPhone, is going after the biggest fish in the CPU pond — Intel. The firm today began offering a faster dual-core processors for the netbook, the emerging “smartbook” market, and other devices. The processors are available as “macros,” one step […]

Oracle on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Exadata servers for data warehousing, touting a new hardware supplier, Sun Microsystems, that replaces Hewlett-Packard, the supplier of the first generation of servers. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison made no mention of the interminable regulatory process that has stretched on for five months and hung […]

Actually, it’s been a while since we had a good Apple “iPad” rumor, so it’s about time one showed up. This one is pretty good, too. It comes from the Taiwan Economic News, which cites local parts suppliers. The report states Apple will launch its tablet PCs next February, with deliveries to Apple in December. […]

Intel will use its upcoming Intel Developer Forum to highlight several key developments in its product roadmap — starting with smaller, more efficient chip designs and specialized applications for its Nehalem line. In an advance preview today of what’s to come at IDF, which begins Sept. 22 in San Francisco, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) said the […]

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced a corporate reorganization that sees the company returning to an old structure it had previously broken up, and in the process has one of its most well-known executives leaving the firm. Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise group, the first CTO of Intel and founder of the […]

IBM and HP have been crowing about how they have been luring away customers from Sun Microsystems, but they haven’t pitched a shut out. Some loyal Sun customers are hanging in there in the hopes Oracle will make something of the battered firm. At an investor’s conference this week in New York, Roy Vallee, chairman […]

The PC market began to pull back from the brink in the second quarter of this year, as it achieved sequential growth in unit shipments for the first time in six months, according to iSuppli. Global PC shipments in the second quarter totaled 67.2 million units, down 4.3 percent from the 70.2 million sold in […]

Timing is everything. I say that as an investor with a track record of buying high and selling low, and now it looks like Dell learning the same thing. The latest in its Adamo family of ultra-thin notebooks is really, really thin. As in 9.99mm thick. That’s 0.40 inches for us in the States. Dell […]