Andy Patrizio

Apple has set June 7 through 11 as the dates for its Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held once again in the San Francisco Moscone Center, the company announced. Apple did not say who would deliver the keynote address. Last year, that role was filled by Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Phil Schiller, senior vice president of […]

Apple has confirmed it purchased Intrinsity, a small semiconductor design shop in Austin, Texas, that specializes in making low-power, embedded processors. The rumor had been floating around since the beginning of this month but was only confirmed today to the New York Times. Formed in 1997, Intrinsity has around 100 employees, according to its Wikipedia […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The traditional data center will have to evolve as the world adopts more of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, said panelists here at the AlwaysOn OnDemand conference, hosted by Hewlett-Packard at its headquarters. The issue posed to the four panelists by David Thomas, executive director of TechAmerica Silicon Valley and one of […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.–Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is finding its way into enterprises in unique ways and having its own special impact on how business is done. That was the consensus of four panelists here at the AlwaysOn OnDemand conference, hosted in HP’s Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters. All four have their own on-demand software firms and shared their […]

Microsoft today announced the May 1 availability of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the first update in three years to its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for midsized businesses. Dynamics GP is the descendant of the old Great Plains accounting software Microsoft acquired a decade ago, and has since been enhanced as an ERP platform. The […]

Citing an increase in IT spending across all sectors of its business and all global geographies, IBM announced record revenue and earnings for the first quarter that exceeded analyst projections. After the close of trading on Monday, IBM (NYSE: IBM) reported a first-quarter profit of $2.6 billion, or $1.97 per share, a 13 percent improvement […]

Like its rival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) looks to be riding a wave of returning growth in PC sales, today posting a surprise first-quarter profit. Thanks to robust sales of everything from its Turion II laptop processor to the 12-core Opteron, AMD reported GAAP earnings of $257 million, or $0.35 per share, on […]

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) wasn’t expected to post any major surprises for its first quarter earnings, but with business users in the mood to start buying again, Intel did just that. The chip giant blew past projections thanks to strength in the mobile market and the new processors it introduced in January. As a result, for […]

Microsoft has announced the official release of its Visual Studio 2010 software development toolkit and Version 4 of its .NET Framework, with Version 4 of its graphics library Silverlight also expected to be released later this week. The announcement takes place as Microsoft kicks off its Visual Studio Conference & Expoin Las Vegas. Visual Studio […]

Advanced Micro Devices has been gaining sales momentum over the past year and is continuing to gain market share, but only a portion of that share is coming from Intel. The rest has come by growing the market, according to market research firm iSuppli. In addition, AMD (NYSE: AMD) is doing better on the server […]