Andy Patrizio

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices picked quite a unique place to introduce its new graphics strategy: in the hanger of the retired aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet. The ship, rich with history in war and in recovering the Apollo 11 astronauts, was decommissioned before AMD even opened for business and now serves as a floating […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Having locked up a large chunk of the sales side of the market with its on-demand CRM service, Salesforce.com is taking aim at what it thinks will bring in its next billion dollars in revenue, customer service management. Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) announced Service Cloud 2 on Thursday, an upgrade to its customer […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks at the company’s media event in San Francisco. Source: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — The audience here at Apple’s media event at the Yerba Buena Center was still getting seated when, with no warning or announcement, Steve Jobs quietly walked on stage. The crowd, gathered for a company media event, welcomed […]

Dell today introduced new servers and storage aimed at the small and medium-sized business (SMB) markets and designed to make ongoing management simpler and less expensive, a perpetual problem for all IT shops. The company also announced plans for its first branded uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). With maintenance costs eating up as much as 70 […]

All eyes are once more on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) as the company prepares to host an event tomorrow in San Francisco — offering little in the way of detail but plenty of grist for the rumor mill. There’s little debate that Tuesday’s event is iPod and/or music-related — especially with a title like “It’s Only […]

Intel today expanded its Nehalem family with the release of the “Lynnfield” family of high-end desktop and low-end server processors. They will be sold under the Core i7, Core i5 and Xeon 3400 brand names. The Lynnfield line replaces Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) older Bloomfield and Gainestown lines of high-end desktops and low-end servers. While they […]

Viewsonic, a leading maker of computer monitors, continues its dalliance with new markets. A few months back it entered the all-on-one business with an iMac-like system. Before that, it took on smartphones. Now the company is looking to take a plunge into the netbook market. For starters, Viewsonic has launched a pair of netbooks in […]

The news on Thursday that European Union antitrust regulators have launched an in-depth probe into Oracle’s $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems on competitive concerns was the worst outcome for the two firms as they are both left paralyzed for an indeterminate length of time. The European Commission, the competition watchdog of the European Union, […]

Thomas Seibel, the founder of Seibel Systems, is recovering from broken ribs and legs after an elephant charged at him and a tour guide during a tour of the Serengeti plain in Africa last month. The billionaire, who cashed out when Oracle purchased his company in 2005, told the San Jose Mercury News that the […]

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has landed the first major customer win for its Unified Computing System (UCS) blade computer offerings, a civil construction firm that was able to consolidate five datacenters into one with the new system. Tutor Perini does jobs such as airport construction and building casinos in Las Vegas. It had five datacenters scattered […]

Netbooks are beginning to really eat away at the notebook market and are showing their greatest strength outside the U.S., according to a new report by market researcher DisplaySearch, a subsidiary of NPD Group. In its new Quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report, DisplaySearch found netbook sales had surged to 38 million units during […]

The race to cram more processor cores into desktop systems continues with both Intel and AMD expected to introduce six-core processors for desktops by next year. Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) six-core or “sexa-core” part is called Gulftown and is believed to be aimed at a release during the first half of 2010. But Advanced Micro Devices […]