Andy Patrizio

Worldwide sales of semiconductors jumped during the second quarter of 2009, soaring 17 percent from the previous quarter to $51.7 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). It’s still a 20-percent decline from the $64.7 billion reported in the second quarter of 2008, however, and so far, 2009 is down 25 percent from sales […]

Apple is not known for being an especially fast-moving company: Earlier this year it left a Java vulnerability unpatched for several months while other major platforms fixed it immediately. But on Friday it issued a fix for the SMS vulnerability that was a highlight of the Black Hat conference just one day earlier. The vulnerability […]

The state of Washington has tentative plans to build a $300 million state-of-the-art datacenter in the capital city of Olympia, but some legislators are questioning the decision to spend so much money when it could save money by using cloud computing services. Last week, the State Finance Committee approved the sale of $300 million in […]

If Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) does indeed go through with delivery of a long-rumored tablet – jokingly called the iPad on some blogs – it will have a most unlikely competitor: publisher Michael Arrington of the TechCrunch.com tech blog fame. Arrington first acknowledged his plans for a hardware product in early July in the San Francisco […]

Apple is not known for being an especially fast-moving company: Earlier this year it left a Java vulnerability unpatched for several months while other major platforms fixed it immediately. But on Friday it issued a fix for the SMS vulnerability that was a highlight of the Black Hat conference just one day ago. The vulnerability […]

Defections are a common occurrence during an acquisition as people get nervous about the future, even when promises are made. Despite assurances from Oracle chief Larry Ellison that his firm would retain Sun Microsystems’ hardware business once the $7.4 billion merger closes, and his promise at JavaOne to fully support Java, Sun is still taking […]

The Silicon Valley is a long way from the flashbulbs and high speed chases of the west side of Los Angeles, where paparazzi chase after celebs at more than 100 mph on city streets. I used to live in that madness. You saw some real sights driving up Robertson Blvd., a.k.a. Paparazzi Row, where celebs […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – The road to on-demand applications was paved by line-of-business applications vendors like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, but the next generation of providers are looking beyond basic business services and applications. The AlwaysOn Summit here at Stanford University is a major dog and pony show for start-ups, some capitalized, some not, looking to […]

Spam has reached its highest level in years, according to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report on spam from Symantec. But in some ways, spammers are just getting lazy. While spam now accounts for as much as 95 percent of all e-mail traffic, many of those spam letters are the same, except that they’re now being […]

Globalfoundries, the chip fabrication company formed when AMD spun off its fabrication plants with an investment from the Middle East, today announced its first major non-AMD customer, STMicroelectronics. The smart betting money had been on nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), AMD’s rival in the graphics processor market. But in the end, the business went to STMicro, as […]

The second quarter is usually the slowest time of the year for computing product sales, but this year is an exception in the graphics processing unit (GPU) market, as sales took off after Q1 doldrums. A report issued this week by Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm specializing in graphics, showed that Q2 sales […]