Andy Patrizio

One of the most famous insults in the computer industry came in 1995. At the time, Steve Jobs had Next Computer, then minus its expensive hardware and selling a development environment. He was asked to comment on the merger of the two premier Smalltalk vendors, DigiTalk and ParcPlace. Ever the diplomat, Jobs cracked that “two […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Google today unveiled two new search functions, one for images and one for news, that are designed to make it easier to drill down and find exactly what the user is looking for. Google Similar Images and Google News Timeline both build on what Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) does best, and that is […]

Who needs coffee to start your Monday when you have a huge Silicon Valley merger to open your eyes? A merger of this scale is not usually done in the space of a week, but that’s what appears to have happened. There are still a whole lot of questions to be answered, of course, but […]

HP today introduced its Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio, consisting of BladeSystem Matrix and the Matrix Orchestration Environment (MOE), designed to make it simpler and faster to deploy blade systems. Deploying a blade is nowhere near as simple as deploying a new laptop. There needs to be all manner of hardware planning involving separate teams that handle […]

The CEOs of Cisco, EMC and Dell, along with a senior executive of Intel will gather at VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters this Tuesday to introduce vSphere 4.0, the renamed and revised Virtual Infrastructure 4.0, according to sources familiar with the event. It’s quite a coming-out party for virtualization software. The guest list includes EMC (NYSE: […]

Microsoft has begun making its Windows 7 Release Candidate available to major hardware partners for testing, taking a step closer to final release for the closely watched successor to Windows Vista. According to a note on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Partner Program Web site, the official Release Candidate for Windows 7 is available for download through […]

Source: Intel Chip manufacturers are in a race to the bottom in terms of die size, and while this kind of one-upsmanship is good for fostering competition, it may prove unsustainable, industry-watchers say. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has led the way last year with its move to 32 nanometers (NM) later this year, and is now targeting […]

The PC industry shipped 67.2 million units during first quarter — down 6.5 percent from a year ago, according to new stats from researcher Gartner. However, that’s good news: Gartner earlier had expected sales to drop 10 percent. “The quarter wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be,” said George Shiffler, research director for […]

The on-again, off-again soap opera romance between Sun Microsystems and IBM is back on — but apparently one-sided, because IBM is reportedly not interested. Negotiations for IBM (NYSE: IBM) to purchase Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $7 billion seemed all but settled last week until they collapsed at the 11th hour. Since then, both companies have […]

Cisco Systems caused a major stir with the announcement of its Unified Computing System last month, a blade server based on Intel’s new Nehalem quad-core processors. Today, the firm opened up with far more detail on how the UCS system works, confirming many of the details InternetNews.com reported earlier despite the company’s official cone of […]

Iomega may not be the first name that comes to mind when discussing network storage, but the company that brought you ZIP and Jaz drives in the 1990s wants to change that. Now an (NYSE: EMC) EMC company, Iomega is moving up into the mid-sized level of the market where EMC doesn’t usually play. The […]