Andy Patrizio

Much has been made about Windows XP fading into the sunset at the same time as co-founder Bill Gates leaves his full time position at the software giant. Microsoft has already extended the life of the aging operating system once, and will continue to offer it for ultra-mobile PCs. However, if you really must have […]

McAfee’s month-long S.P.A.M (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment has ended, and none of the participants have received their Viagra, real estate deals or millions from a Nigerian bank. Then again, it’s not like they were expecting to get that stuff. McAfee (NYSE: MFE) hired 50 participants from 10 countries by placing ads on Craigslist, including […]

The latest step in Dell’s Simplifying IT strategy is an SD card designed to ease the hassle of deploying and retaining server information in a blade server. Dell’s FlexAddress SD Card will help users of PowerEdge M-Series blade servers quickly provision a server and maintain provisioning information. When a blade server is first deployed, it […]

Pat GelsingerSource: Intel SAN FRANCISCO — On July 18, 1968, nine engineers from Fairchild Semiconductor, including Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Andy Grove, set up a company in Santa Clara initially called “Moore Noyce”. However, the name sounded a lot like “more noise,” so they ultimately settled on “Intel”, short for “Integrated Electronics”. Today, the […]

Adobe Systems has teamed up with Google and Yahoo to make content mixed with its Flash file format easier to index. The software maker predicts a big impact on how and what pages are sorted in the rankings of those search engines. Just give it some time. The good news for everyone who has added […]

The problem with laptops seeming to grow legs and walk away from their owners dominates the minds of IT administrators and the public alike. After all, maybe your personal data was sitting on that laptop that was stolen, lost or otherwise misplaced, which could mean major disruption of your life or even identity theft. After […]

Every company plans for an orderly transfer of power, but there are times when that transfer has to be done on a more urgent schedule. Whether it’s Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health scare, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s tendency for an adrenaline rush or Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas being busted for allegedly selling drugs, the fear […]

Hitachi America is looking to gain some ground in the competitive blade server market with the announcement of new servers sporting Intel Xeon and Itanium processors aimed at the multiprocessing market. The servers being upgraded are Hitachi’s BladeSymphony 1000 and BladeSymphony 320. The 320 now sport Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Xeon 5200 and 5400 processors, which […]

Squabbles over advertising claims in the tech industry are as common as product point releases, but every now and then the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureau, which monitors advertising claims and investigates their veracity, has to step in. If the NAD is like a parent in the front seat […]

A Taiwanese publication is reporting that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) plans to release three Nehalem quad-core processors at the end of the fourth quarter, complete with specs on the new chips. DigiTimes, based in Taipei, cited motherboard vendors as its sources, many of which are also based in Taipei. The official model names have not been […]

Security firm Sophos ran a 40-day test of visiting computers from corporate users, and the results aren’t pretty. Four in five of the machines checked were lacking in at least one area of security. The Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test scans were voluntary and only applied to people visiting from a corporate site, as Sophos’ specialty […]

In a bit of news that sounds right out of Star Trek, scientists at Oregon State University and University College London have devised an ultraviolet scanner that can identify organic matter in soils. The ultraviolet light reacts with chemical compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are considered candidates for being one of the […]