Andy Patrizio

Embedded Alley Solutions, a provider of embedded Linux products, today announced it plans to bring the Android mobile application platform and development environment to the MIPS processor platform. Embedded Alley is partnering with RMI Corp., a Cupertino, Calif.-based semiconductor company that is a MIPS licensee and makes a line of low-power processors, to port Android’s […]

Microsoft has begun making its Windows 7 Release Candidate available to major hardware partners for testing, taking a step closer to final release for the closely watched successor to Windows Vista. According to a note on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Partner Program Web site, the official Release Candidate for Windows 7 is available for download through […]

The PC industry shipped 67.2 million units during first quarter — down 6.5 percent from a year ago, according to new stats from researcher Gartner. However, that’s good news: Gartner earlier had expected sales to drop 10 percent. “The quarter wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be,” said George Shiffler, research director for […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Putting that little IBM incident behind it, and insisting reporters not ask any questions about it, Sun Microsystems today introduced a new series of Nehalem-based blades with integrated networking connectivity, a strategy similar to what Cisco announced for its new blades. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), of course, will tell you it has […]

PALO ALTO — Hewlett-Packard today announced an upgrade to its Business Service Automation (BSA) suite of virtualization tools designed to take some of the repetitive and menial tasks out of operating a virtual environment. Virtualization has been highly touted as a cure-all for many IT ills, but there have been some unintended and unforeseen consequences […]

iSuppli has released its final sales figures for 2008 and the numbers are not pretty. And then there’s the Semiconductor Industry Association’s (SIA) number for February, which are downright ugly. The collapse began in the fourth quarter of 2008, with sales declining by 5.2 percent, with memory prices causing the bulk of the damage, according […]

Twitter took a step forward toward monetizing its service and providing some needed interface improvements at the same time with the announcement of its Discovery search engine. For some time, Twitter has offered search through its users’ Tweets in near-real-time. But the company said the approach had been clunky. With Discovery, which is currently in […]

NetSuite has announced new integration functionality between its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financials software and Salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) on-demand software. SuiteCloud Connect for Salesforce.com, announced Thursday, allows for bi-directional data integration and sharing between SalesForce (NYSE: CRM) and NetSuite applications, even though the two systems are hosted in two different datacenters. This […]

The postingof the Open Cloud Manifesto on Monday was almost anti-climactic considering the brouhaha that erupted in the days before its release. While IBM, which is leading this effort, has assembled an impressive list of partners, equally notable is who’s sitting it out. Among others, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has lined up Cisco, EMC & VMware, […]

Cisco’s big Unified Computing System (UCS) announcement Monday was long on buzz words and promises. In the space of 90 minutes, Cisco chief John Chambers and an impressive lineup of CEOs from around the industry waxed eloquently over a news announcement that lacked key details like pricing and exact hardware specs. Most of what InternetNews.com […]