Andy Patrizio

Sleuthy Mac enthusiasts have unearthed new patents filed by Apple for future iPhones that show Apple is quickly evolving the touch-driven phone to be as voice-driven as possible — while gaining some other interesting functions. All told, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) filed a half-dozen patent applications this week. The move gives no hint of a timeline, […]

Semiconductor sales will remain depressed in the second half of 2009 and possibly worsen, while prices for NAND flash have spiked this year, according to market research firm iSuppli. The spike in flash will cause a subsequent increase in prices for solid-state drive (SSD) storage technology in notebook PCs in 2009, according to iSuppli. Average […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Apple’s handling of CEO Steve Jobs’s health problems, according to a Bloomberg News report — with the SEC wanting to know how his condition went from “relatively simple” to “more complex than thought” in a week’s time. The investigation hinges on what Apple’s board knew on January […]

Symantec on Tuesday released live betas of Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 for users to test and put through their paces ahead of a planned September release. These updates show some significant changes in how the malware software detects malicious code and is a reflection that the old ways just aren’t feasible […]

With the popularity of netbooks undiminished, vendors are continuing to bring new products to the market. On Tuesday alone, three new products were introduced. Sony (NYSE: SNE) made its entry into the netbook market official with the announcement of the Vaio W, a 10.1-inch device with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Windows […]

Deduplication sure has become the hot product. NetApp and EMC are in a brawl over who wins the hand of Data Domain, Dell recently entered the dedupe market with its own offering, and now enterprise backup and recovery software vendor Acronis is adding its own dedupe offering. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is the next […]

Call it a hunch, but I’m guessing VMware chief Paul Maritz did not spend the Fourth of July at a barbecue with Intel folks. Video has just emerged of Maritz going to town bashing the x86 architecture while speaking at the Tiecon Conference, which took place in May. The video runs 10 minutes but doesn’t […]

Signs of an economic recovery continue to pop up, the latest being research that shows IT spending is on the rise in some sectors, while a separate report shows a big jump in chip sales. IT research and advisory firm Computer Economics (CE) issued its 20th annual survey on IT spending and found several sectors […]

One month after it launched its cloud services business, CSC announced on Wednesday it has signed a global contract with Microsoft to resell and support Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), a part of Microsoft Online Services that offer communication and collaboration cloud services. Under the agreement, CSC (NYSE: CSC), the largest independent consulting services […]

A new report from Morgan Stanley shows that as the PC market begins to stabilize and pull out of its precipitous fall, Apple’s MacBooks are leading the way as the top sellers. Yet just a few months ago, when computer sales plummeted, Apple’s sales were tanking the worst. Just shows Apple does everything in a […]

It seems the iPhone 3GS is hitting a rough patch within its first month reminiscent of what the 3G went through last year. Instead of the earlier model’s 3G network problems, though, some iPhone 3GS users are finding the phone too hot to handle — and hard to find in stores. On the plus side, […]

HP today announced it will offer a high-end workstation with one or two of AMD’s new six-core Opteron processors, codenamed “Istanbul,” for its HP xw9400 tower PC workstations. Just recently AMD updated the series to run the quad-core Shanghai processor, and it’s socket-compatible with Istanbul, so if you own one of these beasts and are […]