Andy Patrizio

The PC market has seen its share of ups and downs. Hardware sales rocketed in the lead up to the infamous Y2K bug in 1999, but IT budgets were tightened considerably following the dotcom crash a few years later. Other factors can also affect IT’s willing to buy new desktops. For example, Microsoft’s latest operating […]

Office 2010 has quite a bit of power, but you will need much more than just Office to see its true potential. Its tight integration with products like Windows Server 2008, SharePoint Services, Exchange, SQL Azure and Communicator are all there for the using, if you are willing to spring for all that software and […]

Both Apple and AT&T’s online sites were inundated to the point of failure as more than 600,000 iPhone 4 orders overwhelmed both companies’ servers. As Enterprise Mobile Today discovered, the unprecedented demand for Apple’s latest must-have device resulted in a complete sellout of the company’s first run. Apple issued a statement on the problems, saying, […]

The conventional wisdom about moving to high-speed networks is they would use less battery power because the data transmission would start and stop faster. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Aside from the fact people are downloading more, to transmit that data faster means you need more power, and there’s no getting around the laws […]

It was the news people expected at Worldwide Developer Conference last week, but it’s happened none the less. Apple has updated its Mac mini, the tiny Macintosh not much bigger than a stack of CD jewel cases, to give it some computing horsepower that puts it on par with the MacBook. Small Business Computing has […]

CSC is one of the largest independent IT services providers left in the U.S., and in addition to providing support and services to government and private industry, it also has a considerable application hosting business. As the world moves from hosting to the cloud, so is CSC. It’s broadening the services it has and rolling […]

For the early adopters, the debut of the iPhone 4 next week will instantly render all other handsets obsolete, particularly earlier iterations of Apple’s iconic device. So what happens to all of those 3G and 3GS iPhones? As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the annual iPhone release cycle has given rise to a crop of used […]

“Virtualization is proof CPUs are the wrong size,” proclaims Andrew Feldman, CEO of SeaMicro, a firm emerging from stealth with a radical approach to server design. The company has released its SM1000 server, which it promises will deliver substantial energy savings thanks to the use of hundreds of low-power processors that ably perform common Web […]

AT&T is extending a little good will to its iPhone customers, offering price protections to enable existing subscribers to upgrade to version 4 of the popular device without getting hit with an early termination fee. AT&T’s pricing offer for the iPhone comes on top of a separate deal Apple’s Steve Jobs announced at the company’s […]

Apple has attracted widespread interest with its new iPad tablet. The sales figures — 2 million units sold in two months — make that plain enough. But it’s not just consumers who are looking longingly at the sleek new device. A host of other vendors exhibiting at the big Computex show in Taiwan trotted out […]

Motorola continues refining the formula that’s paid off for its popular Droid smartphone, powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to reports, Motorola is working to unveil the next incarnation of the Droid with a processor that’s twice as fast as the current version. It’s not just a move to keep pace with rivals […]

With Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems a done deal, industry observers are now speculating on what Sun’s new owner will do with its x86 server lineup, which currently comes with either Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron configurations. Some see Oracle’s silence on the subject as an indication that it’s poised to dump the AMD option […]