Andy Patrizio

“Nehalem” is the name of a bay, a state park, a river, a highway and a city in Oregon. It’s also the codename the chip giant used to describe its new generation of CPUs that will incorporate a memory controller on the processor, just like AMD’s Phenom, Athlon and Opteron processors. Effective today, you can […]

It’s not easy to reach Sonoma State University Professor George Ledin these days. Thanks to a Newsweek article profiling his computer science classes with an emphasis on the creation of malware like Trojan horses and keyloggers, a lot of people want to talk to him. And a lot of people are mad at him. Despite […]

P.T. Barnum famously declared “There’s a sucker born every minute,” but even he couldn’t imagine this. Secure Computing’s TrustedSource Research Team has issued its August 2008 report on all things spam, and among the stories: the top 10 celebrity names used in spam, designed to draw a response. Secure Computing generated this list from two […]

The indictment of 11 criminals involved in the TJX credit card theft incident shows that cybercrime is indeed a global effort, and the bad guys are many steps ahead of their victims in terms of sophistication and knowledge. While all the attention has been on TJX, parent company of the TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Bob’s Stores […]

Well, that didn’t last long. Dell had received near-final approval for its trademark application of the term “cloud computing,” but the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled its “Notice of Allowance” on Tuesday and changed the status to “returned to examination.” Dell first applied for and got a trademark for the term “cloud computing” in […]

Microsoft today announced it’s releasing to manufacturing SQL Server 2008, its enterprise database and business intelligence platform. Originally planned for earlier this year to coincide with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server was delayed to insure the code was solid. The release comes three years after SQL Server 2005, which is better than the five-year gap […]

A CPU’s clock speed — the rate at which it executes instructions — combines the system bus speed with a multiplier that signifies the number of cycles executed each cycle. A 2.4GHz processor, for example, might run at 200MHz with a multiplier of 12, meaning that 12 clock cycles are executed at 200MHz for every […]

Let’s hear it for the global economy. Global sales of semiconductors for the first half of 2008 grew 5.4 percent over the same period in 2007, to $127.5 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). June sales were up by eight percent over June 2007 and up 0.5 percent from May 2008 sales. It’s […]

Dell’s newly-acquired trademark for the term “cloud computing” may have all the durability of a glass hammer, meaning it will shatter the first time they try to use it. The law is not exactly on the company’s side in this argument. For a trademark to stick, say legal experts, it has to have a unique […]

With its typical lack of fanfare, Apple has released the iPhone 2.0.1 software, just three weeks after the release of the iPhone 3G and 2.0 software. The release notes were short even by Apple standards: “Bug fixes.” Great description for the 249.2MB download. iPhone users know the drill: plug it in, fire up iTunes and […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new Cloud Computing site. Netizens have uncovered a Dell trademark for the term “cloud computing,” uncorking fears of another attempt at co-opting a popular industry term. In 2006, for example, CMP Media and publisher Tim O’Reilly acquired a service mark for the popular term “Web […]

nVidia has denied reports that it will soon be exiting the motherboard chipset market. The story first ran last Friday in the Taiwanese tech publication DigiTimes, citing unnamed sources at motherboard makers. The story just didn’t make sense when I first read it. Why in the world would a market leader – nVidia claims more […]