Andy Patrizio

ALSO SEE: Best Smartphone for IT: Blackberry vs. iPhone vs. Android Apple and Google may be on a seeming collision course, but when it comes to the mobile market they are the two big winners. The losers? Most everyone else. comScore found that over a three-month period from September to December 2009, those two gained […]

Now that the Sun acquisition is a done deal, Oracle has begun picking and choosing the products that will live on and which will fade out. While CEO Larry Ellison was adamant that there would be no wholesale slaughter of products or staffing cuts, the reality is that not everything can survive or receive full […]

The Apple iPhone has been a game-changing device in many ways, but it will never win any performance awards. Its processors are underclocked, meaning set to run slower than they can, to reduce heat and conserve battery power. The result is a phone that is decidedly lacking in pep. But the iPad looks to be […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison capped off day-long eventhere Thursday at his company’s headquarters to tout his plans for the newly merged Oracle/Sun and to lay into earlier reports of massive layoffs at Sun Microsystems post-merger. The event was for industry analysts, press and customers alike to hear the firm’s strategy now […]

Analytics firm Flurry says it has tracked down 50 devices that it believes are Apple’s tablet, which the firm is expected to announce on Wednesday at an event in San Francisco. The evidence, though, is a bit circumstantial, although it’s a lot of circumstantial evidence. The devices’ IPs and GPS data indicate they are at […]

The tablet device market is as busy as the Android phone market these days, with new contenders entering daily. The latest entrants? Freescale and the Hearst Corporation. Yes, a chip vendor and a publisher. Freescale on Monday kicked off the new year with a new tablet reference design. Hearst, publisher of 15 daily newspapers, including […]

Corsair Memory and OCZ Technology Group, two of the leading suppliers of DRAM- and flash-based memory used in the making of solid-state drives (SSDs), have issued firmware updates to add a feature that will boost the performance of Windows 7 on an SSD. The feature is called the “TRIM” command, or function. Windows 7 shipped […]

The lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Intel is “overblown” and won’t lead to much of anything beyond perhaps a settlement, argues one market analyst following the case. The FTC’s case is multi-faceted, taking on Intel for alleged anticompetitive behavior, but also taking it to task for its x86 licensing terms and practices. […]

The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Intel isn’t earning a lot of cheers of support, except maybe from nVidia. In fact, analysts think the suit over claims that the world’s biggest chip maker used its market position to stifle competitors is late and pointless. “This is kind of pathetic. Over two years after Japan, Korea […]

Symantec on Wednesday announced its now offering its flagship security and storage applications as a subscription service through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers looking to quickly deploy and manage Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) enterprise-class Endpoint Protection and Veritas Storage Foundation applications can pay an hourly or monthly rate through the EC2 interface rather than […]