Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems today formally released JavaFX 1.0, its Java-based platform for building rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can run on computers or mobile devices and built on its widely-used Java programming language. Java has always been a programmer’s language, but with the release of JavaFX, Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), is allowing the task of programmatic content […]

Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft’s operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not surprisingly. Net Applications uses software sensors at 40,000 Web sites around the world to measure traffic and come up with its […]

A new analytics report shows that the competition is gaining ground on Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in both the browser and operating system spaces, but the company’s hegemony remains intact. While a number of blogs and news sites have crowed about Microsoft’s losing share, the firm that did the research thinks the real news is elsewhere. […]

The entry of Hitachi into the solid state drive (SSD) business marks the first formal effort by a major playing in platter-based disk storage into flash memory storage. Up to now, it has been flash memory makers like Samsung, SanDisk and Micron, and their forte is memory, not storage. There are more than 70 NAND […]

Damn the economic torpedoes. A newly-revitalized AMD is charging into next year with a series of new desktop processor releases. The new chips coincide with both the release of the “Shanghai” generation technology and the move to 45 nanometer manufacturing. AMD (NYSE: AMD) launched the “Shanghai” version of its Quad Core Opteron server processors last […]

Our world is never static, but as I write this, we are going through a particularly nasty period of upheaval. Print publications are dying left and right. The latest examples are US News & World Report and The Christian Science Monitor, which have thrown in the towel on their print editions. Forbes magazine just merged […]

The bi-annual release of the Top 500 supercomputer list is an opportunity for a flurry of press releases as every company crows about its bragging rights: HP had the most machines on the list, IBM held most of the top spots, Intel chips were in almost 400 of the machines and AMD had the top […]

Market research firm iSuppli has issued a report that claims worldwide PC shipments will rise by just 4.3 percent in 2009, a two-thirds reduction from its previous forecast of 11.9 percent growth. The firm also adjusted its expectations for 2010, although that scenario isn’t so bleak. It cut its initial prediction of 9.4 percent growth […]

This is why parents yell at their kids to turn off the lights around the house. Thanks to small changes in Windows and hardware settings, as well as improved efficiency in its power supplies, Dell said it’s been able to save a total of $3 billion in energy costs over the last three years. All […]

Now that Apple has put most — but not all — of the complaints about the iPhone 3G’s performance behind it, the company has turned its attention to adding new functionality and tweaking the existing apps on its best-selling phone. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) posted the iPhone OS 2.2 on Thursday evening, along with a point […]

UPDATED: Thanks to some financial discipline and cost-cutting, Dell was able to report fiscal third-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations. This, despite a year of sales being off. The company reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of $727 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of $15.16 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research, had […]

Is high performance computing (HPC) hot? If this week’s Supercomputing 08 show is any measure, the answer is yes. In a down economy, one week before a major American holiday, the show still drew 10,000 people to Austin, Texas. That’s more than Microsoft’s recent PDC and WinHEC developer shows drew combined. The annual show highlights […]