Andy Patrizio

Anti-malware software has long been viewed as a necessarily evil, as in, necessary and evil to have on your machine. It’s necessary because without it, your computer could become an infected mess, a zombie on a botnet spewing out spam and running as slow as a 386 by today’s standards. It’s also evil because while […]

Intel continues its low power push with the introduction of new low-power Xeon chips for servers and its solid state drives (SSDs), first announced at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) last month. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) introduced four Xeon chips today, one dual-core and three quad-core, that keep a promise made last year in terms of […]

News outlets and blogs lit up on Friday with reports that Samsung Electronics Co., the giant Korean firm that produces almost one-third of the world’s supply of flash memory, is considering purchasing SanDisk, a maker of flash memory disk drives. News of the deal sent SanDisk (NASDAQ: NSDK) shares up 31 percent to close the […]

Internet Explorer. Firefox. Safari. Opera. Flock. Now Chrome. Do we really need another browser? “I guess the computer industry is a little weird, because we’ve come to expect that one or two browsers are enough,” Brian Rakowski, group product manager at Google, told InternetNews.com. “The analogy I like to use is for buying a car. […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – The coming few years will feature continued consolidation, financial pressures and changes to the hardware business, requiring different IT strategies for the future than what people have been using in the past. IT consultancy Gartner made these predictions during its Hardware Insight conference here Thursday. Employees of firms like Intel, HP […]

NEC Corporation of America is making a new play to raise its profile as a provider of server hardware in the U.S. market. A dominant company in its native Japan, NEC is not known as a major brand in the North American datacenter, but it’s looking to change that with new products and a greater […]

Some Chrome users took a close look at the End User License Agreement (EULA) for its new Chrome browser, apparently a closer look than Google’s legal department, and did not like what they saw. One section of the EULA gave the company “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, […]

For anyone following the rock/metal scene, it’s no secret Metallica has been on the outs with its fan base for some time. A string of bad albums and suing fans for downloading its MP3s did wonders to spoil the reputation for a band that had previously been viewed as one of the biggest, most popular […]

Microsoft could have been a little more subtle in its job posting for a product manager, but perhaps it wanted to set tongues wagging. A now-expired help wanted ad tipped Microsoft’s hand on plans for an upcoming competitor to Apple’s App Store. App Store is an online service for iPhone users that works right from […]

There is such a thing as being too popular, and Intel is finding that out. Its newest processor family, the Atom, is such a hit the company is having trouble meeting demand. The problem is not in manufacturing the chip. One 300mm wafer can yield 2,500 Atom chips, and Intel has no shortage of manufacturing […]

By now you have probably heard of “The iPhone Girl,” the cute Chinese factory worker  flashing the peace sign, whose picture was found on one man’s iPhone. Her picture was taken by a worker at the Foxconn factory where the iPhone is made and left on the phone, which wound up in the hands of […]

BitTorrent downloaders who thought they had scored a victory when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic aren’t necessarily in the clear: The nation’s largest cable ISP is moving ahead with plans to impose download limits. As part of a punishment from the FCC, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) was ordered […]