Andy Patrizio

Intel’s Atom processor celebrated its first birthday by adding a few more elements to the family of low-cost, low power processors. The company announced two new chips and demonstrated new features in a next-generation processor during its Developer Forum conference in Beijing. The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) used to be a twice-per-year event in the […]

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 […]

PALO ALTO — Hewlett-Packard today announced an upgrade to its Business Service Automation (BSA) suite of virtualization tools designed to take some of the repetitive and menial tasks out of operating a virtual environment. Virtualization has been highly touted as a cure-all for many IT ills, but there have been some unintended and unforeseen consequences […]

Acer America today launched a number of new PCs, among them the Acer AspireRevo — the first PC from a major PC vendor using both nVidia’s Ion graphics processor and uniting it with the Intel Atom processor. The Ion, which makes its first debut today in the AspireRevo, is a rebranding of the GeForce 9400M […]

Salesforce.com today announced Mobile and Mobile Lite services that gives customers of Salesforce CRM access to the most popular basic services via their smartphone. Salesforce is launching it with support for Windows Mobile phones, BlackBerry phones and the Apple iPhone. Mobile Lite is a free version with limited functionality, while Mobile is the full-featured version […]

When word broke on Sunday that IBM (NYSE: IBM) had withdrawn its $7 billion offer for Sun Microsystems, many observers expected a collapse in Sun’s stock. Instead, the result has industry analysts wondering if there’s a new deal in play for the embattled Silicon Valley pioneer. Shares of Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) opened the day down […]

iSuppli has released its final sales figures for 2008 and the numbers are not pretty. And then there’s the Semiconductor Industry Association’s (SIA) number for February, which are downright ugly. The collapse began in the fourth quarter of 2008, with sales declining by 5.2 percent, with memory prices causing the bulk of the damage, according […]

After fading from the front page, the talk of an IBM/Sun Microsystems merger came roaring back to the forefront on late this week following a report in the New York Times that the talks were approaching the final stages, and Sun had dropped its asking price. The original rumors put the purchase at between $10 […]

NetSuite has announced new integration functionality between its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financials software and Salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) on-demand software. SuiteCloud Connect for Salesforce.com, announced Thursday, allows for bi-directional data integration and sharing between SalesForce (NYSE: CRM) and NetSuite applications, even though the two systems are hosted in two different datacenters. This […]

Twitter took a step forward toward monetizing its service and providing some needed interface improvements at the same time with the announcement of its Discovery search engine. For some time, Twitter has offered search through its users’ Tweets in near-real-time. But the company said the approach had been clunky. With Discovery, which is currently in […]

Just days after Verizon said it was getting into the netbook business, AT&T announced its own plans to capitalize on the netbook craze — treating the tiny notebook PCs like they’re cell phones. AT&T said today that it would adopt the business model that served the mobile phone industry so well — subsidizing the cost […]

For the second time in a month, YouTube users from a European nation are finding themselves unable to watch music videos on the site because of a royalty dispute with royalty collection firms. British fans lost their music video access beginning last month, after Google-owned YouTube couldn’t reach an agreement with PRS, Britain’s royalty service. […]