Andy Patrizio

Transmeta, the chip maker that once challenged Intel with its low-power x86-compatible processors and once employed Linux creator Linus Torvalds for some time, has put itself up for sale. The company has never been able to make much headway with its products, although it remains a popular source of technology licenses for its patents related […]

Microsoft has confirmed that attendees of its two forthcoming developer conferences get an early version of Windows 7, the next version of its desktop client. The company made the news official on a blog for the Professional Developer Conference (PDC), which takes place in Los Angeles from October 27th to the 30th. The following week […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — EMC is the storage player of choice for many in the enterprise market, but the company has expansion plans that include consumers, “prosumers” (technically astute consumers) and small- and medium-sized businesses. The key to gaining that market is Iomega, which EMC purchased in April for $213 million. Iomega is now “the […]

Desktop computers have come with graphics processing units (GPUs) for years, but desktop applications like Adobe’s Photoshop and Premier have never made use of the graphics acceleration these cards provided. Until now. Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) and nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that for users with nVidia graphics cards, Adobe’s new Creative Suite 4 applications […]

The break-in to the Web site of Fox News commentator and talk show host Bill O’Reilly has gotten far less coverage than the so-called “hack” of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account, but the story behind it is much more interesting. Whatever the suspect’s motivation for hacking Palin’s e-mail, it’s pretty obvious why O’Reilly became […]

IPhone 3G customers either have been or will be getting a text message on their better-behaved phones from Apple alerting them of a recall of the USB power adapter that comes with the phone. The adapter is a wall plug with the USB connector on the other end, so iPhone users can charge their phone […]

IBM released Systems Director 6.1 today, an upgrade to its intelligent dashboard for managing and monitoring the energy consumption, virtualization, and general operations of systems and storage devices in a datacenter. Version 6.1 of Systems Director is really a new release of the product, not a point release, something Pete McCaffrey, director of enterprise systems […]

Intel today introduced the third generation of its vPro business platform, which will be available soon on desktops and has been shipping in laptops with the Montevina technology introduced in August. The new vPro, codenamed “McCreary,” is a combination of Core 2 processors — either quad-core or dual-core models — along with the Q45 Express […]

The semiconductor industry is facing a perfect storm of consolidation, commoditization and accelerated development, all of which combines to make the market extremely unforgiving of mistakes and puts these firms under even greater pressure. That’s the gist of a report released by market researcher iSuppli Thursday, which found that the consolidation of the market has […]

The hacker or hackers who broke into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mail account didn’t need much technical skill. The proof is in the screen shots taken by the cracker, who left all the evidence computer forensics experts will need to find him. In his screenshots, posted to the underground Web site 4chan, a user named […]

A research paper from Intel shows the chip giant figured out what many apartment and home dwellers have known for years: using a fan to pull in cool air from the outside is as good as an air conditioner. Datacenters have operated on the notion that they must be hermetically sealed from the outside, with […]

Sun Microsystems has updated its MD D20 mobile datacenter to increase the density of the servers, offering more space for rack-mounted units and allowing customers to choose from a broader array of larger rack-mount networking and server devices. The Sun MD systems are densely-packed datacenters within a standard shipping container. It comes in 20 and […]