Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems was known for the slogan “the network is the computer” for years, even before the Internet hit the mainstream. So its absence from “cloud computing,” the buzzword of the year, was rather notable. The company said it’s taken steps to reverse that, bringing its considerable hardware, software and expertise to bear on cloud […]

Just three months after the release of Chrome, Google is following through on its vow to remove the “beta” label from its upstart browser — making it a rare final product from a company notorious for its seemingly endless beta cycles. Since its inception, Chrome has served as a test bed for new browser technologies, […]

The flurry of activity in recent days surrounding the Web browser market makes it feel more like 1998 than 2008. Now if only we had the economy of 1998, too. The Mozilla Foundation this week released beta 2 Firefox 3.1 as well as the first beta of Thunderbird 3, its e-mail and Usenet newsgroup reader. […]

With the economy in the shape it’s in, even Microsoft and Google are thinking twice before dropping $100 million on a new datacenter. But the two tech giants are easing off the funding pedal for different reasons. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has delayed breaking ground on a planned Oklahoma datacenter by 12 to 18 months, and […]

Intel and AMD don’t agree on much very often these days, but the two companies are in lock step on one issue: they can compete and offer scalable performance in the high performance computing (HPC) arena, despite findings to the contrary. A recent report in the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) publication IEEE […]

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) have been mostly a consumer phenomenon, providing more flash than practical use, but Adobe Systems and SpringSource are set to change that with today’s announcement of an integration initiative. The two firms are wedding their technologies, which will allow for the development of enterprise and business-class applications using Adobe’s Flash/Flex on […]

With CPU vendors hitting the performance wall several years back, unable to make their processors go any faster, the solution to increase performance became to go multi-core. Well, that doesn’t appear to be helping very much at the upper end of the performance spectrum. Tests conducted by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico […]

Thursday saw AMD reporting dire news for the coming quarter, Friday sees Intel facing severe prognostications from two research firms, hinting at major reductions in the workforce and Intel posting some severe losses. FBR Capital Markets issued a report stating that “industry checks” indicated Intel would announce a large workforce reduction, potentially as high as […]

Projections for hardware sales have been plummeting for some time, but Thursday’s warnings from AMD and hardware makers put hard and rather significant numbers behind the warnings. AMD warned that fourth-quarter revenue would be off by as much as 25 percent from original projections of $1.52 billion, which would be around $1.19 billion. AMD (NYSE: […]

If it wasn’t December in San Francisco, I’d say someone at Apple’s legal department needs to stay out of the sun. Apple has filed a motion to amend its complaint against the Florida clone maker that has been preloading Mac OS X on generic white box PCs to add a claim of violation of the […]

If this were a FARK entry, I would be breaking out the “Unlikely” tag. Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Windows Business, told the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference that perceptions of the Windows brand had improved because of the company’s $300 million ad campaign, which was based around the laughable “Project Mojave” campaign. […]

Hewlett-Packard, with its partner Seagate, has announced new 300GB capacity serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives in a 2.5-inch form factor, which it claims can reduce the power required by up to 50 percent. The formal announcement and availability is set for Monday along with pricing. Hard drives are one of the villains in datacenter power […]