Andy Patrizio

Intel put in a strong showing for the third quarter, but due to uncertainty going forward, issued one of the widest ranges of revenue guidance in its history. The chip giant on Tuesday said it expected revenue to be between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion in the fourth quarter. Wall Street was expecting around $10.8 […]

Apple’s new MacBookClick to enlarge. Source: Apple CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple sure practices what it preaches. The company that once had the slogan “Think Different” has managed to take the Intel-based notebook in a new direction from its competition — one reason why it aims to continue gaining market share. The company today introduced a […]

So much for codenames. Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, today announced that Microsoft’s upcoming operating system is to be officially named after its codename, Windows 7. The news was posted on Microsoft’s official Windows 7 blog and comes just two weeks prior to the Professional Developer Conference, Microsoft’s big developer show […]

Sun Microsystems on Monday introduced its newest line of midrange servers aimed at the high-volume transaction market, sporting a far lower price, lower cost of ownership and what it claims is far better performance than the competition. The new system is the SPARC Enterprise T5440 and comes in two- or four-socket configurations. The runs Sun’s […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the availability of Silverlight 2.0, the company’s rich Web application plug-in designed to be lighter weight and more versatile than Adobe’s popular Flash technology. Silverlight has been in a mass public beta for months, so today’s announcement was more of a formality. But the other half of the news got […]

Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) will be a coming out party, not just Windows 7, but also “Oslo,” a new tool the firm has been working on for around a year that helps with model-based development. “Oslo” was first announced by Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Connected Systems Division in October 2007. Developers […]

Finally, some good news in a sea of bad economic news lately. AFCOM, an association supporting the data center industry, polled 312 members representing major datacenters around the world in private industry and government. The results: Spending will hold steady and, in many cases, will go up in 2009. One big caveat needs to be […]

The user interface in the XBox 360 was ahead of the game when the console shipped in 2005, and XBox Live did set the standard for the online experience on consoles. But since then, Sony has come out with a beautiful new interface for the PlayStation 3 and even Nintendo managed something nifty for the […]

Sample Mail Goggles screen. Click to enlarge. Source: Google A conscionable bartender should stop people from driving drunk, but if not, there’s always the police. So who will stop you from e-mailing while intoxicated? Good old Google, that’s who. The idea was the brainstorm of Google software engineer Jon Perlow, who wrote to a former […]

Source: Apple Apple will turn its attention to its notebooks after letting its product lineup languish for more than a year without an update. As always, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) gave only a teaser of what’s to come: In this case, the press invites to an event at its Cupertino campus on Tuesday, Oct. 14, bore […]

David Kernell, the 20-year-old Tennessee college student suspected of breaking into the Yahoo Mail account of Gov. Sarah Palin, was indicted by a federal grand jury. The development comes almost three weeks after authorities first named him as a suspect in the case. Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Perhaps […]

Now that AMD has spun off its fabrication facilities as a quasi-separate entity, the question now becomes whether this will free the company to once again be truly competitive with rival Intel. “This is kind of a life support step,” said Jim McGregor, senior analyst for In-Stat. “This is something definitely required because they needed […]