Andy Patrizio

Intel on Thursday reported a severe decline in gross income and net revenue due to a massive slowdown in sales worldwide, along with a major hit due to a reduction in the carrying value of one of its investments. Despite the severe worldwide scenario, the world’s largest chip maker plans to continuing spending on advancing […]

Personal computer sales managed the barest of growth rates in the fourth quarter of 2008 even in the face of a worldwide economic slowdown. The U.S. saw the worst damage done, but even then it wasn’t enough to cause a year-over-year decline. Technology research firm Gartner said Wednesday that fourth quarter 2008 worldwide PC sales […]

That “can of whoop-ass” that nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang promised to open up on Intel last year has just been returned to his office, postage due. The company was pounded today with downgrades after a severe downward revision of fourth quarter numbers. nVidia today revised its revenue guidance for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 […]

Microsoft released a single bulletin today for this month’s Patch Tuesday covering three issues in its Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. It’s quite a change after the intense crush last month, with more than 20 fixes, and the emergency patch to fix a major Internet Explorer fault. The single bulletin has three fixes, two of […]

Physics researcher Alex Wissner-Gross never intended to bring so much negative attention to Google, but that’s exactly what happened after the Sunday London Times published an article about his work. He said the paper got it wrong and he’s keen to correct it. The Times story said his work showed that performing two Google (NASDAQ: […]

Over the weekend I managed to snag a legitimate copy of the Windows 7 beta and installed it on my secondary computer, an Athlon 5600+ with 3GB of memory and nVidia 7800GTX video card. I had a spare hard drive that I could use for the install, so when I’m ready, I can return to […]

SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Sony announced at the CES show plans for joint development of two new high capacity memory sticks that will expand flash memory into the multi terabyte range. The two firms will work on “Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity” (its tentative name) and “Memory Stick HG Micro.” The Extended High […]

Advanced Micro Devices announced at the Consumer Electronics Show its latest computer design, a high definition video rendering machine consisting of four video cards that can reach up to a petaflop of rendering performance. The AMD Fusion Render Cloud is a joint venture between AMD (NYSE: AMD) and OTOY, a software and content developer and […]

A former boss of mine is currently working for Vudu, the settop box maker that offers access to 13,000 high definition movies and TV shows. The company has slashed the price of the hardware, from $299 to $99. Ok, you got my attention. But, the movies are downloaded via a broadband connection, and a high […]

Advanced Micro Devices is charging forward despite its own problems and those of the economy at large, touting new, high-performance CPUs and a second-generation platform that combines its CPU, graphics processing unit (GPU) and chipset. With the purchase of ATI in 2006, the company gained the capability to deliver an all-in-one solution combining the three […]

It’s 5 pm PST, and soon Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will take to the stage to kick off the Consumer Electronics Show, something his old friend Bill Gates did for years before his retirement. Ballmer is widely expected to announce a public beta of Windows 7, a rumor helped by the fact it’s already leaked. […]

Sun Microsystems today snapped up Q-Layer, a provider of middleware for dynamically provisioning cloud computing services — a move that better positions Sun to offer the tools sought by companies running their own clouds. Through the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, privately held Q-Layer’s employees will become a part of Sun’s (NASDAQ: JAVA) […]