Andy Patrizio

Seen at the Macworld press registration desk (click for the larger view). What more needs to be said? (Besides that I suck at Photoshop, that is…)

Microsoft and Windows Vista have taken quite the shellacking from Apple via the latter’s “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads. The Redmond software giant has attempted to hit back, with varying degrees of success. Now the company is moving forward with something less formal than its “Project Mojave” ads touting Vista. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]

Freescale Semiconductor has entered one of the few hot markets in this messed up economy, the netbook market, with the launch of the i.MX515 processor. In doing so, Freescale enters a field dominated by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) that also includes VIA Technologies and nVidia. Couldn’t it have picked an easier fight? “The way we look […]

Workers prepare for Macworld 2009Source: Reuters Tuesday’s upcoming Macworld conference and expo in San Francisco will be historical — either as the last show to feature Apple or as the last show, period. Apple announced last month that this show would be the last one in which it would participate. IDG, which sponsors and promotes […]

Source: Reuters On the last day of the year, when many people are barely working, if at all, Microsoft found itself scrambling to deal with an issue that has left a large number of its 30GB Zune media players unusable. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) identified the problem as an error in Zune’s handling of the last […]

A Chinese court has convicted 11 people involved in a massive piracy ring that, if it were a legitimate business, would have been a significant retail outlet in its own right — raking in more than $2 billion for selling counterfeit software. The Futian People’s Court handed down sentences on Tuesday ranging from 1.5 years […]

The Asus Eee PC netbookSource: Asus Sales of netbooks have been one bright spot for the PC industry during the past year. So why are many users returning them? It’s hard to pinpoint the rates at which netbooks are being returned to the stores and e-tailers where they’re purchased. But many industry observers agree: Many […]

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is rumored to be the launch pad for Microsoft’s one and only public beta test of Windows 7, but it seems a few people couldn’t wait until next week. Build 7000, the version planned for use in the beta test, leaked onto BitTorrent sites over the Christmas holiday. Microsoft Chairman […]

Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes tried to leave a lump of coal in Intel’s stocking today, but Intel threw it right back. The chip giant is denying accusations it is squeezing out nVidia’s new graphics processor from the Atom platform. DigiTimes claimed that PC manufacturers in Taiwan have told hardware makers the Atom CPUs for netbooks […]

Source: Dell Quarterly global notebook PC shipments surpassed desktop computers for the first time ever, according to market research firm iSupply — a change that industry watchers had figured would happen years from now. The firm reported that notebook PC shipments rose almost 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008 over the same quarter […]

Sun Microsystems is researching ways to make massive supercomputers even faster, including wireless connections between CPU and memory. The shortcomings of multi-core were discussed in the November 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum. The publication of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, quoted scientists from Sandia National Labs, who felt that multi-core processors were detrimental […]

By tradition, Microsoft tries to take old operating systems off the market six months after the release of a new one, but Windows XP continues to live on, almost two years following the release of Windows Vista. For the third time since Vista’s release in January 2007, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has pushed out XP’s availability […]