Andy Patrizio

Apple is promising to fix a loophole in the iPhone that would allow anyone to access the user’s personal information, such as contacts, even if the phone is password protected. The hole was first disclosed on MacRumors.com and then Gizmodo.com shortly thereafter, before the bulk of the media picked up on it. The iPhone can […]

Dell has come storming back from its rough past few years, but its rapid expansion efforts have finally caught up with it, as the company reported Thursday a 17 percent decline in profits for the second quarter due to all of its product development and overseas expansion. Dell reported net income of $616 million, or […]

No sooner had Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, then it warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) might not be able to uninstall either the service pack or IE8 in some circumstances. This is not unusual. When Microsoft released SP3 last May it warned users that they wouldn’t be […]

IDC has released its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the second quarter of 2008 and the results mirror that of last week’s figures from Gartner, in that to gain sales, vendors are dropping the price significantly. Factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 6.4 percent year over year to $13.9 billion in the second […]

The Mozilla Foundation has released a very early prototype of mash-up software called Ubiquity designed to make it easier to paste data from multiple sources together in a Web page or e-mail. Call it the ultimate mash-up. The video demo of Ubiquity – a reflection of the new media on the Web – shows how […]

Microsoft has finally settled a six-year legal battle with Immersion over XBox controllers. Yes, Xbox controllers. It may seem irrelevant, but there are big bucks when it involves a device sold with every videogame console. Immersion develops haptic feedback technology, called TouchSense, which makes videogame controllers shake violently in your hands to simulate action on […]

Protests at technology events are extremely rare. I know I’ve seen a few over my career but can’t remember the last one. So seeing people all over the place at the NVISION 08 show was really surprising. The show is spread out over a number of buildings, rather than contained inside one like most shows. […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The 20th annual HOT CHIPS conference at Stanford University is an academic show, not a vendor-driven one. That means the biggest guns share the stage with the littlest pistols; and it gives the little guys a chance to shine. In this case, a Chinese processor project found itself sandwiched between presentations […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – One week after the buttoned-down seriousness of the Intel Developer Forum, another chip company, nVidia, kicked off its NVISION 08 conference with some flashy demos and lots of fun. Whereas Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CEO Paul Otellini was on vacation and left the heavy lifting to Chairman Craig Barrett and other top […]

It wasn’t as stumbling a start as the recent launch of the new search engine Cuil, but Microsoft’s new photo-stitching service Photosynth did have a rough first day before things smoothed out. The site went dark for a few hours after being overwhelmed by visitors. “The Photosynth site is a little overwhelmed,” Microsoft said in […]

IBM and Dell were the big winners in the second quarter server business, while Hewlett-Packard continued to execute well and Sun lost ground, according to Gartner’s second quarter 2008 report on the worldwide server report. Overall, the market was up 12.2 percent in terms of units, but just 5.7 percent in terms of dollars. Worldwide […]

There’s never enough hours in the day during a busy trade show and the Intel Developer Forum was no exception. Bone tired as I was at the end of each day, there was still so much more to do. Day three featured my biggest regret. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and the creator of […]