Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5, its development platform for building Java and JavaScript-based applications. The emphasis in this particular release, however, is on scripting languages, which have risen in popularity since Java’s debut in 1995 to become widely used in building Internet applications and scripts. Sun (NASDAQ: […]

A California district judge on Tuesday granted Apple’s motion to dismiss claims of anticompetitive behavior by PsyStar, the Florida system builder that has been selling computers with Mac OS preinstalled. PsyStar charged Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) with violating antitrust laws through its vehement opposition to third-party hardware makers looking to sell their own computers with Mac […]

Intel’s main obsession with the Core i7 processor, a.k.a. Nehalem, was power efficiency. If an idea wasn’t power efficient, the company said during Monday night’s launch event in San Francisco, it didn’t go into the chip no matter how good it was. The change in the architecture has brought about what should be a considerable […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel’s Core i7 processor, a.k.a. Nehalem, hosted its coming out party at a dockside studio near some old warehouses that are so out of the way, they’re in. But the bigger news about Intel’s latest launch in the processor family is set to come long after the hip event launch here. Although […]

The economy is in tatters. Retail outlets are crying red tears. Intel just slashed its fourth quarter projections, and desktop sales are flatlined. Is this any time to launch a high-end desktop chip? As they say in Alaska, you betcha. Intel has let Nehalem, formally branded the Core i7, out of the gate to retail, […]

If you’ve noticed a drop in the amount of spam you’ve been getting, thank Washington Post security blogger Brian Krebs. Krebs did an expose on McColo, a San Jose, Calif. ISP that some called a “landfill ISP.” Those are ISPs that attract an inordinate amount of shady or criminal activity. After his stories ran, McColo […]

In the cartoons, the Road Runner always managed to fend off the Coyote. On the latest Top 500 supercomputer list, the Roadrunner managed to hold off a Jaguar. Roadrunner, the Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputer and the first to break the petaflop barrier, held on to the top spot of the Top 500 list of […]

Sun’s facility in Broomfield, Colo., 2006. (Reuters photo) After several months of turmoil, things came to a head at Sun Microsystems with the unpleasant pre-holiday news that around 6,000 people, 15 to 18 percent of its workforce, would be cut in a restructuring plan that the firm hoped would save $700 million to $800 million […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – When AMD went looking for a graphics partner in 2006, so the rumor in the Silicon Valley goes, it initially courted nVidia. Such a pairing made sense; nVidia was only a few miles away in Santa Clara, it had outstanding graphics and made chipsets and was a market leader. But the deal […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — OK, so the economy stinks and market leader Intel just slashed its fourth-quarter revenue estimates by more than $1 billion. Yet smaller rival AMD isn’t letting the current business climate bring it down. Instead, the company put on a feisty presentation here at its financial analysts meeting, showing that it’s ready to […]

More research is coming in saying that the growth in IT spending will shrink to the low single digits in 2009, with some areas being cut more than others, but so far, it does not look like any drastic action is being taken. Then again, these estimates have been going down as fast as the […]

Inside the Opteron. Source: AMD Embarrassing product delays can do wonders to light a fire under a company. AMD seems to be making very sure it doesn’t repeat the comedy of errors that befell the delays with its Barcelona chips. Some of the reasons for Barcelona’s lateness was its ambition. AMD (NYSE: AMD) has admitted […]