Andy Patrizio

AT&T, one of the largest Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country, put a temporary block on its Internet customers over the weekend to an underground Web site due to a denial-of-service attack. The block is gone but the fuss kicked up among bloggers remains. Over the weekend, Christopher “moot” Poole, the owner of the […]

Dell today announced that 21 of its OptiPlex, Precision, and Latitude commercial client computers have qualified for Energy Star 5.0-compliant certification, the highest level of energy efficiency in a PC. The company also launched a Web page called the Client Energy Savings Calculator, which allows customers to tweak the components in their build-to-order systems for […]

Apple’s red-hot iPhone may be gaining ground in the enterprise and government but it’s severely lacking the kind of security features big companies need, claims one developer. Jonathan Zdziarski, a developer and author who specializes in iPhone forensics, told Wired that the iPhone 3GS is as insecure as previous generations of iPhones, which he claims […]

With Wal-Mart’s planning aggressive discounting and marketing around notebook PCs, hardware vendors may be facing an unpleasant situation: The line of demarcation between notebooks and netbooks may be blurring at the point of pricing, perhaps for good. That’s because the retail giant is poised to begin selling a full-featured notebook PC for the cost of […]

Apple claims just under 9 percent of the total desktop/notebook computing market, but it almost totally owns the “premium” space for computers. According to market research firm NPD, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) held 91 percent of the market in June for computers carrying price tags more than $1,000 — and that’s up from 88 percent in […]

IBM said Tuesday that it plans to release a new RISC processor, called the POWER 7, in the second half of 2010. Given the questions swirling around the continued survival of Sun Microsystems’ hardware once Oracle finishes its purchase of the company, by the time these chips come out, they may be the last major […]

Once again, Apple surpassed expectations and reported quarterly revenue and earnings on the high side of its projections. For its fiscal 2009 third-quarter ended June 27, the company reported a net profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share, on revenues of $8.34 billion. Analysts had a wide range of expectations from the company, […]

Intel’s solid second quarter numbers and statements on the conference call following earnings made it clear that OEMs and ODMs are gearing up, building new machines and buying more parts for them. So it would stand to reason Intel’s biggest rival AMD will also benefit from the build up. But AMD (NYSE: AMD) has been […]

Intel set the stage for second-quarter earnings last week with outstanding numbers that handily beat estimates — putting a bit of a burden on the rest of the tech sector: If Intel is seeing signs of life, you’d better be seeing them, too. Apple, though, is a slightly different animal, at times in sync with […]

IBM, a company that had hardware as part of its name, has so transformed itself that hardware is now the smallest part of its product offerings. It was not an overnight process; indeed, it’s taken two decades and two very different CEOs to come to this place. But thanks to Louis Gerstner and Sam Palmisano, […]

HP announced on Friday it has signed an agreement to purchase privately-held storage software company IBRIX. IBRIX, a business partner of HP’s, builds file serving software for high-performance storage computing and cloud computing environments. The firm has been an HP business partner for three years and its products are offered on a variety of HP […]

As the owner of an iPhone, my colleagues like to forward new announcements for the phone my way, either because I might be interested in it, or to check it out. In the case of Google’s new My Location feature, it was both. Too bad AT&T failed me again, albeit in an amusing way. That […]