Andy Patrizio

U.K. enterprise application development and management company Micro Focus International is buying storied software tools maker Borland and the testing unit of enterprise application development vendor Compuware. Both deals are expected to be cash purchases, thanks to a new line of revolving credit. Micro Focus will pay $75 million for Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) and $80 […]

Asustek Computer plans to launch an Eee PC netbook with an 11.6-inch screen later this month, according to a report. The screen size would be the biggest yet for the netboook maker. The company still considers the model with the 10-inch screen to be its mainstream model, accounting for 50 percent of total shipments, but […]

The revelation last Friday that Windows 7 would come with a virtual mode to run Windows XP has been qualified with the realization not every processor will support it. A number of bloggers, beginning with ZDNet’s Ed Bott, have noted that to run Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, your processor has to have hardware […]

The Intel Itanium processor has enjoyed a comfortable niche in the mission-critical, high-performance market. But a collection of hardware, operating system and app vendors who are banking on the platform wants to see it move out of that small, albeit vital spot. The Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) said it’s enjoying growing membership and app support, […]

I’ll give Google credit, they practice what they preach. The company always looks for sorts of ways to go green, whether it’s using alternative energy sources to power their monstrous datacenters or mow the lawn. The company’s Mountain View headquarters are actually somewhat off the highway in a hilly, grassy area. Like any other Silicon […]

The latest hyperventilating in the blogosphere is over some NPD Group figures that show the iPhone isn’t the top seller among smart phones this quarter. That honor goes to Research in Motion and the BlackBerry Curve 8300, which had a lot of help from Verizon Wireless thanks to a buy one, get one free promotion. […]

A joint report by two market research firms predicts that digital content in an average U.S. home could hit as much as 12 terabytes by 2014. So where are you going to put all of it, and more importantly, how will you back it up? The findings by Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis include DVD […]

Further evidence that a tech sector recovery, however weak, is beginning to take place came from the Semiconductor Industry Association, which reported that global chip sales rose 3.3 percent in March over February. However, it’s not party time just yet. Because January was such a disaster, and February not much better, the SIA reports Q1 […]

When gasoline spiked to $4 per gallon a few years back, Hummer salesmen were crying in their coffee while Toyota couldn’t make the Prius fast enough. Market researcher iSuppli thinks something similar is bound to happen to the netbook and notebook worlds. Netbooks, the smaller, less expensive portable devices that typically sell for under $300, […]

Intel has unveiled the Intel Data Center Manager, a software development kit for monitoring power consumption on datacenter servers and adjusting power consumption on an as-needed basis. The caveat? The servers have to utilize Intel’s Intelligent Power Node Manager embedded in Intel’s newly launched Xeon 5500 “Nehalem” generation of server chips to fully use this […]

For a decade, IBM’s developerWorks site has been a gathering place for developers that use IBM tools to perform research and get answers to their programming questions. Beginning today, the old site is going to get a little more social. As it turns out, users wanted the change. IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently surveyed hundreds of […]

Pop quiz: Who’s the third biggest supplier of PCs in the world? If you guessed Acer, that’s right. The Tapei-based company trails only HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and can claim leadership in at least one related area: netbooks. The company reported its first quarter numbers Wednesday and, while the results weren’t pretty, […]