Andy Patrizio

They don’t get much smaller than this. Marvell, a company best known for semiconductors, introduced its first PC, if you can call it that. The SheevaPlug is a $99 reference design based on the company’s “plug computer” concept, which means it’s more of a proof of concept than a planned product. Using a device not […]

Unix servers show more staying power than low-end x86 servers as the global economic crisis hits the once-thriving server business. The worldwide server market contracted 14 percent in the final quarter of 2008, according to figures just released by IDC. But the drop wasn’t evenly distributed; with the high end of the market showing better […]

Back at the beginning of the decade, when the dot-bomb implosion took place, a whole lot of hardware wound up either on eBay or being sold at auction. With the start-up dead, its servers often went for about five to ten cents on the dollar. It was great if you were looking to buy a […]

Microsoft Research, in conjunction with researchers at several prominent technology-oriented universities, has published a thesis on what a new secure Web browser should look like. The paper addresses a number of security issues that have dogged browsers from day one, and gives hints at a possible future direction for Internet Explorer. The Gazelle Web browser, […]

The cast pictures for Dancing With the Has-Beens Stars are out, and all I can say is Steve Wozniak is a braver man than I to dress like that (although his dancing partner might be worth it). He looks a lot slimmer than when I saw him at IDF, too. Maybe it’s Photoshop, we’ll see […]

Borland Software on Monday introduced TeamInspector, the fourth in its Team line of software management tools that can give a project development manager a real-time look at the status of a project while in development. TeamInspector runs a variety of metrics, like code analysis, test coverage, standards compliance, and successful build to determine what kind […]

Well what do you know, Windows 7 is ahead of schedule. Okay, it’s by four days but it’s something. Windows news site Neowin is reporting that Microsoft is is currently testing its first potential Release Candidate of Windows 7 and hopes to release it to the public on April 10. This jives with what I […]

AMD on Wednesday finally got stockholder approval to spin off its fabrication plants as a separate company, called The Foundry Company, but it wasn’t easy. Only 42 percent of common stock shareholders showed up for the first vote in Austin, Texas, on February 10. AMD’s bylaws mandate that 50 percent or more shareholders be present […]

Embarcadero Technologies, the database tools vendor that acquired Borland’s tools line, including Delphi and JBuilder, has taken all of its tools, both its own and Borland’s, and put them into a single license, all-in-one package called Embarcadero All-Access. All told, it’s quite a collection, totaling 18 application and database development tools. They range from rapid […]

The lawsuit Intel filed against nVidia earlier this week is, on the surface, about the scope of a chipset license. nVidia maintains its 2004 license with Intel extends to the chip giant’s most recent platform, Nehalem; Intel says otherwise. Underneath though, it looks like the first real shot in an escalating war between two companies […]

A detail from Microsoft’s Windows 7 site, and a sign of things to come? A graphic on the Windows 7 site is fanning the flames of rumors that Microsoft will port its forthcoming PC operating system to smartphones. But even analysts who once entertained the thought are now doubting it will happen — or should. […]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday reported that fiscal first quarter profit fell 13 percent and sales rose just one percent as sales fell across nearly every business unit. Only its services division, buoyed by the addition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), saw a sales increase. The problems were across the board and numerous, reflecting not just weakness […]