Andy Patrizio

A number of tech firms are managing to squeeze out profitability in the midst of falling revenues by driving efficiency and streamlined operations. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has been on an operational efficiency charge for a while that has yielded great results, but IBM has managed to make Intel look like a self-indulgent 1999-era Dot Com […]

As part of the rollout of the Windows 7, Microsoft has launched a contest to spur on development and interest in the forthcoming operating system. The Code7 Contest is a chance for Microsoft to get developers motivated about the new OS, due to ship on October 22, and for developers to “get a massive ‘marketing […]

Globalfoundries, the spin-off semiconductor manufacturing plant made up of AMD’s former operations in Germany plus an investment from Middle Eastern investors, will announce its first major non-AMD customer in the next 30 days, according to the company, with more to come. Globalfoundries spokesman Jon Carvill could not disclose the client just yet, as the company […]

The latest market research from iSuppli and Gartner show continued softness in the PC sales market, with sales expected to shrink year-over-year in 2009 for the first time since the Dot Com bubble burst in 2001. Market research firm iSuppli predicts that global PC shipments will decline to 287.3 million units in 2009, down four […]

A Facebook exec caused a bit of a stir at last month’s GigaOm’s Structure 09 conference when he complained that the newest generation of processors from AMD and Intel were not living up to their performance billing. “The biggest thing … was less-than-anticipated performance gains from new microarchitectures, so new CPUs from guys like Intel […]

The rumor mill has gone into overdrive again on reports that Apple has a tablet-based device in the works, only this time, there are new details. Whether those details are accurate or really good fiction remains to be borne out. It all got started from a report in The China Times, a mainland business newspaper, […]

Intel today reported second-quarter revenue of $8.0 billion, a significant improvement over first quarter’s $7.1 billion and ahead of projections of around $7.2 billion for this quarter. Shares of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) soared in after-hours trading on the news, with the chip giant’s stock price soaring 7.55 percent to $18.10 by press time, after a […]

It’s a good thing Sun got a $7.4 billion commitment from Oracle in writing a few months ago, because if it had to negotiate off of this quarter’s earnings, Oracle would be paying a lot less. The last of the Unix giants pre-announced fiscal fourth quarter results ended June 30 and they are not pretty. […]

Surprises Good or Bad in Intel’s Earnings? Tuesday is the kick-off of second quarter earnings season, with Intel once again jumping out to take the lead and IBM coming on Thursday. What Wall Street analysts will want to hear from Intel and IBM’s CFOs this week will be their future projections. In the case of […]

Netbooks may already be selling like hotcakes, but they’re showing much greater strength than some earlier predictions, according to new findings from retail analyst firm NPD Group’s DisplaySearch unit. The company expects shipments netbooks to reach almost 33 million units in 2009 as penetration of these products into the notebook PC market grows to 20 […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft today officially launched its Silverlight 3 platform and Expression development toolkits aimed at improving the quality of Web interfaces and assisting designers with the difficult task of development. As part of the keynote, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that a release candidate of Expression 3, due to ship in 30 days, would […]

Once again, the iPhone has served as validation for an idea that others have tried but didn’t implement as well as Apple did. In this case, it’s accelerometer technology, the motion sensing technology that’s an integral part of the iPhone as well as Palm’s Pre phone. The accelerometer in the iPhone allows for features like […]