Andy Patrizio

With so much enthusiasm around Windows 7, thanks to the highly successful beta test program, it seemed the other shoe had to drop sooner or later. It has, in the form of concerns that Microsoft would raise the price when Windows 7 ships in October. It started with recent columns in tech publications that “word […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun an investigation into the hiring practices of a number of Silicon Valley firms, including Yahoo and Apple, alleging collusion in hiring practices, according to several media reports. Citing unnamed sources, stories in the Washington Post and New York Times say that the problem stems from an agreement among […]

Firms like Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) have already made it clear that consumer spending has held up far better than corporate spending in this financial crisis. Companies have been delaying the regular refreshment of their equipment, but now there’s some good news: They aren’t canceling things outright. That’s the conclusion of a new report from Gartner, […]

That sound you heard in the Silicon Valley was Sun Microsystems employees heaving a sigh of relief. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told Reuters that he has no plans to dump Sun’s hardware. On the contrary, he’s committed to the SPARC processor line. “We are definitely not going to exit the hardware business,” he told Reuters […]

The revelation last Friday that Windows 7 would come with a virtual mode to run Windows XP has been qualified with the realization not every processor will support it. A number of bloggers, beginning with ZDNet’s Ed Bott, have noted that to run Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, your processor has to have hardware […]

A joint report by two market research firms predicts that digital content in an average U.S. home could hit as much as 12 terabytes by 2014. So where are you going to put all of it, and more importantly, how will you back it up? The findings by Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis include DVD […]

Further evidence that a tech sector recovery, however weak, is beginning to take place came from the Semiconductor Industry Association, which reported that global chip sales rose 3.3 percent in March over February. However, it’s not party time just yet. Because January was such a disaster, and February not much better, the SIA reports Q1 […]

Intel has unveiled the Intel Data Center Manager, a software development kit for monitoring power consumption on datacenter servers and adjusting power consumption on an as-needed basis. The caveat? The servers have to utilize Intel’s Intelligent Power Node Manager embedded in Intel’s newly launched Xeon 5500 “Nehalem” generation of server chips to fully use this […]

“Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Company” isn’t a corporate name that likely springs to mind for many when they think of notebook PCs. But it could be set to become a lot more well-known if it makes good on its bid to become the first to market with a netbook based on Google’s Android operating system. […]

It sure looks like convenient timing to release a report on this topic, but Jack Gold, president of J. Gold Associates, insists his research was not intended to goose flagging PC sales in the current economic downturn. Many firms have been delaying PC purchases all together unless they had to replace one that was broken […]