Andy Patrizio

Microsoft is sticking to early 2010 as the launch date for Windows 7, even though we’ve been told otherwise. Now it seems Microsoft is hinting at an earlier release date as well. Or is it? The WinHEC 2008 Web site states “there is not another WinHEC planned before Windows 7 is released.” WinHEC has been […]

Looks like someone’s ponytail, and the head it’s attached to, may be heading for a chopping block. Jack Davis, a blogger for the San Jose Mercury News, has a report that Sun Microsystems’ largest shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, appears to be losing patience with with the company. Sun announced preliminary numbers on Monday, stating that […]

Last week marked the end of an experiment to live on just a cell phone. I had read how so many people have dispensed with their land lines and relied exclusively on a cell that I decided it was worth a try. It sure seemed like a good idea. I got very few calls on […]

How quickly fortunes change. Analysts are adjusting their previous estimates for the large-screen LCD panel market and Blu-ray players downward as the economy continues to sour. Earlier this year, LCD panel makers could not meet demand and were running at 100 percent capacity. Now, Taiwanese tech publication DigiTimes reports that production could be cut by […]

Apple on Tuesday reported fourth fiscal quarter and year-end results that exceeded analyst expectations, and would have been even more stellar had it not changed its method of accounting. For the fiscal fourth-quarter ended September 30, Apple reported a profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 a share, on revenue of $7.9 billion, up from of […]

After a lengthy gestation, the faster version of Java that Sun Microsystems has been promising, is finally here. They company first talked about it prior to the 2007 JavaOne conference as the answer to make its planned JavaFX client side technology feasible. As it has grown in complexity over the years, Java has grown in […]

Sun Microsystems on Monday reported preliminary results today for its first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended September 28, 2008. Final figures are expected on October 30. Sun expects to report revenues in the range of $2.950 to $3.050 billion, a drop from the $3.219 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2008. Total gross […]

Virtualization isn’t just a buzzword anymore. Instead, it’s not only being deployed in the enterprise but is growing at tremendous rates. That finding is according to IDC, that tracker of all kinds of facts and figures on tech, which issued its first-ever Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker — signaling that the technology has matured to […]

Advanced Micro Devices has managed to turn its gushing wounds into mere trickles, turning in a third quarter that saw a minor loss and hints of profitability in the future. The company lost $67 million in the third quarter, or 11 cents per share on sales of $1.78 billion. That’s a big improvement over the […]

Rocked by reports of CPU failures in notebooks from HP, Apple and Dell, nVidia is looking for a comeback with a new mobile part with integrated graphics designed to compete with Intel’s Centrino 2, a.k.a. Montevina. Thanks to its first OEM, Apple, it may bounce back, now that Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new MacBook line has […]

Just days after Microsoft shipped Silverlight 2.0, the latest version of its Flash competitor, Adobe Systems hit back with an update to Flash that adds 3D and the ability for developers to add their own special effects. Adobe Flash Player 10 offers built-in support for 3D natively, instead of the third-party 3D support in previous […]

Worldwide PC shipments reached 80.6 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 15 percent increase over the same period in 2007, according to a new survey from Gartner. While that represents a nice growth burst, the devil is in the details. The U.S., plagued by economic concerns and a credit crisis, grew only […]