Andy Patrizio

Just one month ago, NPD Group kicked up something of a stir just last month when it reported that Mac and iPods sales both were down 16 percent from February 2008 to February 2009. This was chilling, because Apple’s position as a high-end product vendor meant it would be vulnerable to the economic climate that […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Dell’s announced a nationwide rollout of direct managed services for small- and medium-sized business. In addition to direct support from the company, Dell-certified managed services providers and resellers can also offer the service to end customers. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has been running the direct managed services in trial runs in the Dallas […]

The tech industry had been looking to Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, for a sign that the worst of the downturn may be past. They aren’t likely to be disappointed. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) today reported first quarter net income of $647 million and earnings per share (EPS) of 11 cents on revenue of $7.1 billion. […]

Tech industry insiders had been looking to Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, for a sign that the worst of the downturn may be past. They aren’t likely to be disappointed. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) today reported first quarter net income of $647 million and earnings per share (EPS) of 11 cents on revenue of $7.1 billion. […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Putting that little IBM incident behind it, and insisting reporters not ask any questions about it, Sun Microsystems today introduced a new series of Nehalem-based blades with integrated networking connectivity, a strategy similar to what Cisco announced for its new blades. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), of course, will tell you it has […]

Intel will report its earnings after the close of market on Tuesday, April 14, and good news from the chip giant could cause a lot of people holding their breath to let out a huge sigh of relief. At least one analyst thinks we’re in for a pleasant surprise. FBR Capital Markets has raised its […]

Aiming to cash in on the booming growth in Web 2.0, Schooner Information Technology emerged from stealth mode today to launch its Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise and Schooner Appliance for Memcached, two dedicated servers that act as high-speed caches for Web 2.0 technologies. Cache servers sit between a database and Web server and act […]

Intel’s new starred labeling system. Source: Intel. Click to enlarge. Intel has introduced a new retail buying guide designed to alleviate confusion over its numerous product lines, different cores and clock speeds — but don’t be misled by the style. With its huge array of parts, Intel’s product catalog can create more than a little confusion among buyers. […]

Worldwide semiconductor revenue dipped 5.4 percent in 2008 to $255 billion, according to the final market share analysis for 2008 released by Gartner on Wednesday. Like other market research firms that have looked at the events of the past year, the first two quarters were ok, the third quarter got shaky and the fourth quarter […]

Reports are claiming that Apple recently bought up 100 million pieces of 8Gb flash memory, enough to cause a temporary shortage on the market and cause prices to spike on the worldwide market — and more than enough to raise eyebrows among Apple-watchers. One of the longer-running rumors around the iPhone is that Apple (NASDAQ: […]

Around a year ago, netbooks were emerging as a new platform and Linux was the operating system of choice, as Windows Vista was just too fat and resource-heavy to run properly on the smaller devices with less computing power. Microsoft’s retaliation was to make Windows XP, the aging operating system that’s harder to kill than […]

A troubled Silicon Valley company’s pain seems to mean Microsoft’s gain. For a while last year, there was a conga line of senior talent leaving Yahoo and heading to Redmond. Now Microsoft is benefiting from the troubles at Sun Microsystems with an unusual pickup. Marc Tremblay, a Sun fellow and chief technology officer for its […]