Andy Patrizio

A bi-partisan political group stumping for open political debates has scored a point or two, at least symbolically. Both presidential candidates are endorsing the group’s call for greater audience involvement and availability of the debate footage. The Open Debate Coalition’s effort is headed by Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig, an outspoken advocate of progressive tech policy […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today finally unveiled its long-hinted “Asset Smart” strategy, and it was what everyone suspected it would be: a divestiture of its fabrication facilities. AMD (NYSE: AMD) has been talking about the Asset Smart strategy for months, and when Hector Ruiz stepped down as CEO earlier this year, his new assignment was […]

The introduction of the iPhone 3G last July did wonders to pop Apple’s place in the smartphone market, with users dumping their phones to switch to Apple’s device. But Apple will be hard-pressed to maintain its growth curve as new challengers enter the market. That’s according to research from the NPD Group, which found that […]

Google has published a detailed post of its efforts to reduce datacenter power costs by targeting the center, not the computers. Every hardware vendor out there, from IBM (NYSE: IBM) on down is frantically looking for ways to cut power and heat in their products, but the datacenter building has not gotten as much attention. […]

One of the common shortcomings of blade systems is the use of 2.5-inch drives. While they are smaller and easier to fit in the chassis, they also suffer from capacity limitations. The 3.5-inch drive used in standard desktops and servers has reached the 1TB barrier while 2.5-inch drives are lucky to get half that capacity. […]

UPDATED: SAN FRANCISCO — When you think of computing services, Wells Fargo probably isn’t the first name to come to mind. But with vSafe, an online document storage system for both its banking customers, the banking giant has joined a host of providers in the market. The bank, the seventh-largest in the country and one […]

With so much talk about “cloud computing,” it’s easy to feel lost in the clouds. If you either don’t understand the term, or don’t see a reason for it, you’re in good company. Take Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, for one. During his recent Churchill Club appearance, Ballmer dismissed the uniqueness of the concept by saying, […]

The talk of a Wall Street bailout may dominated the news lately, but Congress had some extra bandwidth to deal with other issues, one of which may have saved the life of Internet radio. The House of Representatives on Saturday and the Senate late on Tuesday passed H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — AMD’s Barcelona launch was bumpier than a 737 departing Chicago into a storm off the Great Lakes. Plagued by delay after delay, then by a bug in the processor after it was supposed to ship, Barcelona was a lesson in how not to launch a new product. AMD (NYSE: AMD) insists it […]

Every technology that starts out expensive comes down in price, and solid state drives (SSDs) are no exception. Super Talent Technology today announced two new SATA-based drives cheap enough that they are actually affordable. The new MasterDrive LX come in 64GB and 128GB capacities, with suggested prices of $179 for the 64GB unit and $299 […]

After looking unstoppable, Alcatel-Lucent was dealt a big setback in its ongoing MP3 lawsuit against Microsoft by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Given how few cases are appealed to the Supreme Court, this may spell the end of what would have been a $1.53 billion paycheck from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to […]

What could possibly make liberal public policy advocacy group MoveOn.org and the conservative activist group American Solutions for Winning the Future, headed by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, come together for a common cause? The answer: A desire to break the media’s hegemony over the presidential debate process and democratize the questioning of […]