Andy Patrizio

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It may have been pouring buckets here in the largest city in Silicon Valley, but the only discussion about clouds going on in the San Jose Convention Center was about cloud computing. One of the main lectures here yesterday at IDC’s Directions ’09 conference centered around what vendors need to do […]

Vic GundotraSource: Google Google may have its own skin in the mobile software game — after all, it’s the prime mover behind the Android mobile operating system. But when it comes down to it, the search giant doesn’t really care which handset or operating system comes to dominate the market. Instead, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) thinks it’s […]

As rumored, Apple today refreshed its entire desktop product lineup, ranging from the tiny, $599 Mac Mini to the powerful, $2,499 Mac Pro tower. The changes include new specs and lower pricing on the company’s iMac family, an expansion to its Mac Mini low-end line, and tweaks to the Mac Pro, a Xeon-based workstation, which […]

The first quarter of the year is always a slow time for hardware sales, which typically drop off the holiday season. That, along with a national economy in recession, might make it sound downright loony for a company to introduce a new computer. But if there’s one thing we know about Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), it […]

Intel on Monday announced a rare alliance with a near-competitor, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), to collaborate on the joint development of Atom-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. Additionally, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) also announced four new Atom designs, which it said will be targeted at specific markets. These chips would be done entirely by Intel and […]

Fans of apocalypse predictions have been obsessed with the ancient Inca prophecy that the world will end in 2012, but for chip makers, that’s just when things will be getting back to normal, according to Gartner, IDC, and In-Stat. The first three quarter of 2008 were fine, it was the fourth quarter where things crashed […]

Cisco Systems is preparing to launch blade servers specifically tuned for virtualization that will be far and away denser and more powerful than any existing blade servers on the market, InternetNews.com has learned. They will also be capable of integrating tightly with Cisco’s high-speed networking hardware, Cisco’s “Project California” marks the networking giant’s entry into […]

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo kicked up quite a stir with a comment on Finnish television that said the company is considering entering the notebook or netbook market. During an interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Kallasvuo responded to a question about whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is considering entering the notebook or netbook market. He replied that […]

Dell on Thursday reported a 48 percent decline in fiscal fourth quarter profit compared with a year ago as the company felt the pinch from the economy. A portion of that was attributable to a one-time charge for reorganization, but most of the pain came from declining sales across all of Dell’s markets. After the […]

No two recessions are the same, and the shakedown hitting the U.S., indeed the global economy, is very different from the one experienced in 2000-2002. That was a powerful combination of the Silicon Valley getting hit directly from the dot-bomb implosion and the overall U.S. economy shattered by the events on September 11, 2001. This […]

Intel has filed a request for declaratory judgment against Psion Teklogix to overturn its trademark of the term “Netbook.” The company, created out of the merger of Psion and Teklogix, has held the trademark since 2000 but has not made use of it. At least not until last month. Then Psion began reaffirming its netbook […]

A new agreement between two big rivals in servers will see HP offering Sun’s Solaris operating system on its best-selling ProLiant x86 servers. In addition to distributing and supporting Solaris on its servers, the companies’ expanded, multiyear program will also see HP, No. 2 in server sales, (NYSE: HPQ) working with Sun to improve support […]