Andy Patrizio

Intel, AMD and Nvidia might be among the top names you think of when it comes to chip innovation. Big computer companies like HP and IBM have had their fair share of innovative chip designs too. But it doesn’t always take the considerable resources of these big tech firms to innovate. A case in point, […]

Thanks to early deliveries by Apple, quite a few people have their iPhone a day or two before those picking it up at the stores. This has given blogging and testing sites a chance to dig in and see what this new wonder from Steve Jobs and company can do. After all, it’s not like […]

AMD has rounded out its Opteron family of processors, offering a compliment to its high-end Magny-Cours line with the new 4100 unit, developed under the codename “Lisbon.” With Lisbon, AMD is taking aim at the middle market, offering a series of processors with an entry-level price of $99 that boasts advantages in power efficiency and […]

HP’s ten new Proliant G7 rack and blade servers incorporate the latest processors from AMD and Intel and a host of enhancements aimed at cutting expenses through massive server consolidation. Each of the new servers offers a sweeping array of improvements — including a new architecture called PREMA and increased memory capacity and performance — […]

After unprecedented pre-orders for the iPhone 4 crashed servers and had both Apple and AT&T officials scrambling, the wait is finally over for some who managed to navigate the online sites to get one of most hyped and anticipated devices in consumer electronics history. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, an unknown number of customers began […]

While social networks for consumers, like Facebook and Twitter, are all the rage (Facebook has over 400 million users), enterprises have been slow to adopt or allow their use internally because of privacy and security concerns. Some companies, including Socialcast and Socialtext, have developed social media services specifically targeted at enterprise customers with security and […]

Apple remains a creature of habit. Last year, it rolled out iPhone OS 3.0 at 10 a.m. Pacific time, and this year, at 10 a.m. on launch day, the now-renamed iOS 4.0 became available for download. The initial reports indicate few hiccups as users get to play with the OS before the new iPhone 4 […]

Rumors have been flying among some iPhone users about seemingly inexplicable bursts of 3G data transmitted without users’ awareness, with some worried that the transmissions could eat up users’ data plans. But AT&T, Apple’s exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone, has a mundane explanation that involves synchronizing usage information and iPhone sleep modes. Enterprise Mobile […]

When wireless carriers entered the smartphone market, one where users use their phones more for Internet access than for making calls, the initial strategy was a one-size-fits-all data plan that more than a few users found unpalatable, since the plans were unlimited data for a rather high price. Users have asked for tiered plans, so […]

Steve Jobs says that the PC is a dying breed and the tablet is the way of the future. Au contraire, counters Steve Ballmer. PCs are entering their golden age. Putting the semantic bickering of the two Steves aside, Forrester Research argues that tablets are indeed part of the PC category, and indeed poised to […]

There have been many distributed computing projects on the Internet since the most famous project, SETI@Home, began looking for radio signals from another world ten years ago. SETI@Home hasn’t found anything yet, but other projects are yielding results. The World Community Grid, with a little help from IBM, is one of those success stories. A […]

Research in Motion may have been first to market with a smartphone, but the BlackBerry is rapidly losing ground to Apple’s iPhone. One of the key differentiators between the two is their online app stores. The Apple App Store is easy to use, easy to search, and it’s easy to make a purchase. The BlackBerry […]