Andy Patrizio

Source: Reuters The launch of the iPhone 3G has not gone smoothly. Existing iPhone customers have had difficulty downloading the new version of iTunes and the new 2.0 firmware. Meanwhile, some of the new customers for the iPhone 3G have had to deal with activation problems and insufficient inventory. In his constant quest of oneupsmanship, […]

After an impatient wait on my part, I was up earlier than usual to hit the San Bruno AT&T store for my new iPhone. Friday traffic was typical. All the way there, all I could do was hope there were enough stores to diffuse demand and keep the lines short. Maybe there’s a chance. Yeah […]

It’s been a bumpy week for Microsoft-related security issues as the company found itself dealing with broken fixes and a new zero-day exploit. On the plus side, the software giant was at least able to address a problem in its patch distribution service. This week’s Patch Tuesday consisted of four bulletins with eight fixes, not […]

The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), an office in the Department of Defense, is the latest government agency to install an IBM supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster. The Power 575 Hydro-Cluster consists of 149 nodes with 32 Power6 processors per cluster running AIX and uses IBM’s water cooling system, rather than […]

IBM has announced the first big hosting agreement for its new energy efficient datacenter in Colorado, a massive facility meant to be a model for energy efficiency. Also, the company has installed another supercomputer worthy of the Top 500 supercomputer list, this one for weather prediction. IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its 115,000-square-foot Boulder, Colorado, datacenter […]

UPDATED: An examination of spam originating from the major free e-mail providers shows that like consumers, spammers prefer Google. In a three-week period from mid-June to this month, e-mail filtering firm Roaring Penguin said it saw an explosion of spam originating from Gmail, while Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail remained flat. The company attributes this […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Eighteen months after Sun Microsystems and Intel made peace and announced plans for Intel-based servers as well as working together on Intel-optimized software, the two companies held a briefing with reporters here Tuesday to update their progress and future direction. Much of their work has centered around optimizing OpenSolaris, the experimental version […]

This month’s patch cycle from Microsoft isn’t quite as severe as the past few months. In fact, none of the four security bulletins, which contain a total of nine fixes, is considered critical, the most severe of alerts. MS08-037 through MS08-040 are all listed as important, the next level of severity, which means Microsoft does […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has found itself in a number of privacy-related controversies, ranging from general user concerns over search records to its new Google Health site for storing personal medical records. But now some of its own employees face the threat of identity theft. Last week the search giant revealed that on May 26, thieves […]

Graphics chip maker nVidia has built its reputation on proper execution, but a combination of lowered outlooks for the coming quarter and a big charge for product defects are making the month of July a bad one for the company. The bad news that rattled through the technology sector was that the company would have […]

Sun Microsystems is looking to reduce the fragmentation of Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME) and its first step is to offer a compiled binary to Hewlett-Packard for its new HP iPAQ 900 series of Business Messenger smartphones. Sun Engineering Services handled the development, compile and testing of the Java Wireless Client binaries – Sun’s […]

People will be eating hamburgers and hotdogs this Fourth of July, but today Gartner had to eat a little crow. It reissued its Q1 2008 server sales figures after receiving updated information on HP server sales and realized that the change was enough to warrant issuing a correction. Gartner reported last May that worldwide server […]