Andy Patrizio

It might seem counterintuitive, but IBM researchers think they’ve got a line on a novel method of cooling server processors using … hot water. Working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the researchers have launched a new supercomputer dubbed “Aquasar,” which sports a higher-than-normal safe operating temperature. As a result, water as warm […]

EMC is primarily a hardware vendor, but the firm has its fingers in some strategic software plays, most notably VMware. Now the company is adding a massively parallel processing database vendor, Greenplum, to its software lineup and plans to build a business intelligence segment around the company. InfoStor finds out what the company has in […]

May brought more good news for the chip sector, which continued to post sharp increases over the low points of the economic downturn, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Global sales in May registered a 47.6 increase over the same month in 2009, putting the market on pace for a 28 percent sequential jump in […]

Computer and device manufacturers rely on a complex network of suppliers to deliver latest hardware goodies. It’s a delicate management process that assumes each supplier can deliver X product at a certain date in the desired quantities. In recent years the computer and electronics industries have had their share of hiccups and more serious supply […]

When the bottom fell out of the economy in October 2008, the reaction of manufacturers of electronic components was swift and decisive. Unsettled by the prospect of being caught with excess inventory, many firms simply ceased production. The result has been a sustained shortage of components that continues to wear on the price and supply […]

Talk of a Verizon iPhone has gone on almost as long as the iPhone has been on the market, and continues to grow with frustration with AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the phone. The great mystery has always been when, because no one was certain of the length of the contract between Apple and AT&T. […]

When Amazon debuted the Kindle, the company said it had been a multi-year effort to recreate the experience of reading a book in digital format with exacting detail. Of course, no element is more central to that experience than the display. That’s why Amazon is one of many firms that has partnered with E Ink, […]

Over just the few days since the iPhone 4’s launch, Apple has been facing growing questions about whether holding the phone a certain way dramatically hampers its signal reception. Now, the iPhone maker is admitting that it’s discovered a bug in how all models of the iPhone calculate and display signal strength as an explanation […]

As one of the main backers of WiMAX, ever move Intel makes will be considered significant. That includes disbanding its WiMAX Program Office, the internal group assembled to help promote the burgeoning wireless format. After an article in an Asian publication gave the impression Intel might withdraw its support for WiMAX, the company issued a […]

Intel has responded to claims the company is reducing or scaling back its commitment to the WiMAX wireless standard, saying organizational changes within the company were just that, and not a reflection of a change in commitment. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was forced to post a reply affirming its commitment to WiMAX after DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based […]

What does the next generation of technology look like? Intel has some ideas. At its annual event showing off its latest research projects (held, ironically, at the Computer History Museum), Intel CTO Justin Rattner presided over a host of novel concepts, themed broadly around the idea of user-centric computing. From a socially aware phone to […]

It’s being dubbed a “voluntary recall,” but the company responsible says it might not be all that bad. The issue affects more than half a million Vaio notebooks, which Sony is warning could overheat “in rare instances” as a result of a software bug. Many of the affected units are only available in Japan, and […]