Andy Patrizio

In the year-and-a-half since the launch of the iPhone, there have been numerous attempts to deliver a competing “iPhone killer” device. Some of these might even be successful. But for now, it seems the only thing that will beat the current iPhone its next generation successor. What that might be is anyone’s guess, but there […]

A Google source code file has given a clear indication that Google is indeed working on its rumored GDrive cloud storage service, and what the company has in mind for the service. GDrive is reported to be Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) foray into a providing an online storage service. The rumors of its existence date back […]

With the number of chips per server and cores per chip increasing, future generations of servers may end up with way more processing power than the computer could possibly utilize, even under virtualization, Gartner has found. The research firm issued a report on the issue earlier this week. This doubling and doubling again of cores […]

The Uptime Institute is preparing to release a series of case studies that show many datacenters are not well managed and could become much more efficient without having to spend a dime on new gear. The research was done in 2008. The common sales pitch for achieving datacenter efficiency is to toss out all of […]

Sun Microsystems took the lessons from its Santa Clara, Calif. datacenter revamp from last year one step further into a huge consolidation project in Broomfield, Colo. While the moves represent bottom line efficiency gains for Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), the experience also now serves as a model for its customers on how to maximize datacenter efficiency. […]

Microsoft posted the first Release Candidate (RC1) for its Internet Explorer 8 browser, as hinted by InternetNews.com. “Release Candidate” status means the product is done and now Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is looking for showstopper bugs. The product is otherwise feature and functionality complete. In announcing the RC, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch said the product […]

One step forward, one step back at Redmond. Microsoft appears to have a release candidate in the works for Internet Explorer 8, but the second service pack for Vista is going to be about one month later than planned. Officially, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) would not comment on the status of IE 8. It has had […]

Among the letdowns for Apple faithful at this month’s Macworld show was the lack of a new Mac Mini model — despite weeks of rumors, gossip and even images floating around the Web of what many Mac fans believed to be a case for a new Mini. That setback hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from […]

Physics researcher Alex Wissner-Gross never intended to bring so much negative attention to Google, but that’s exactly what happened after the Sunday London Times published an article about his work. He said the paper got it wrong and he’s keen to correct it. The Times story said his work showed that performing two Google (NASDAQ: […]

SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Sony announced at the CES show plans for joint development of two new high capacity memory sticks that will expand flash memory into the multi terabyte (define) range. The two firms will work on “Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity” (its tentative name) and “Memory Stick HG Micro.” The Extended […]