Andy Patrizio

Citing sources from Asia, the Piper Jaffray analyst who has been on top of the rumored Apple tablet device has issued a report with even more details on what could be becoming Apple’s worst-kept secret. Senior Analyst Gene Munster has written extensively about the tablet device, which some bloggers have taken to calling the “iPad.” […]

SAN FRANCISCO — AMD is betting big that thin is in. Just as there has been a shift from desktops to notebooks in the past decade, the chipmaker is banking on a similar type of shift from regular notebooks to what it calls ultra-thin designs. The renewed focus for AMD (NYSE: AMD) comes as the […]

If Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) does indeed go through with delivery of a long-rumored tablet – jokingly called the iPad on some blogs – it will have a most unlikely competitor: publisher Michael Arrington of the TechCrunch.com tech blog fame. Arrington first acknowledged his plans for a hardware product in early July in the San Francisco […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – The road to on-demand applications was paved by line-of-business applications vendors like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, but the next generation of providers are looking beyond basic business services and applications. The AlwaysOn Summit here at Stanford University is a major dog and pony show for start-ups, some capitalized, some not, looking to […]

It’s not everyday that there is a public security exploit published for the Linux kernel, yet that is what happened in early July. Though the flaw itself was patched in the mainline Linux kernel several weeks prior to the public exploit code being published, not all users may have patched. It could have been a […]

A number of tech firms are managing to squeeze out profitability in the midst of falling revenues by driving efficiency and streamlined operations. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has been on an operational efficiency charge for a while that has yielded great results, but IBM has managed to make Intel look like a self-indulgent 1999-era Dot Com […]

As part of the rollout of the Windows 7, Microsoft has launched a contest to spur on development and interest in the forthcoming operating system. The Code7 Contest is a chance for Microsoft to get developers motivated about the new OS, due to ship on October 22, and for developers to “get a massive ‘marketing […]

The latest market research from iSuppli and Gartnershow continued softness in the PC sales market, with sales expected to shrink year-over-year in 2009 for the first time since the Dot Com bubble burst in 2001. Market research firm iSuppli predicts that global PC shipments will decline to 287.3 million units in 2009, down four percent […]

Netbooks may already be selling like hotcakes, but they’re showing much greater strength than some earlier predictions, according to new findings from retail analyst firm NPD Group’s DisplaySearch unit. The company expects shipments netbooks to reach almost 33 million units in 2009 as penetration of these products into the notebook PC market grows to 20 […]

Signs of an economic recovery continue to pop up, the latest being research that shows IT spending is on the rise in some sectors, while a separate report shows a big jump in chip sales. IT research and advisory firm Computer Economics (CE) issued its 20th annual survey on IT spending and found several sectors […]