Andy Patrizio

Security firm Sophos ran a 40-day test of visiting computers from corporate users, and the results aren’t pretty. Four in five of the machines checked were lacking in at least one area of security. The Sophos Endpoint Assessment Test scans were voluntary and only applied to people visiting from a corporate site, as Sophos’ specialty […]

A Taiwanese publication is reporting that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) plans to release three Nehalem quad-core processors at the end of the fourth quarter, complete with specs on the new chips. DigiTimes, based in Taipei, cited motherboard vendors as its sources, many of which are also based in Taipei. The official model names have not been […]

Rackable Systems, the high-density system designer for datacenters and Internet service providers, announced five new servers, ranging from 2U units all the way up to a 9U unit that goes in its shipping container-sized mobile datacenter. The new designs deliver up to twice the density of existing Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK) servers in the same […]

Reorganizations are usually done when a division, unit or company is performing poorly or not executing properly. They tend to be quite disruptive, complete with layoffs. So why in the world would a company reorganize one of its most successful divisions? In the case of HP, it has begun a restructuring of its Imaging and […]

The 31st edition of the TOP500 list of supercomputers was released Thursday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, and IBM, AMD and Intel have a lot of bragging rights. The list, issued twice a year since 1993, features some big shifts and interesting trends in supercomputing. The biggest news is that Blue Gene/L, […]

AMD is kicking off the Computex show with the announcement of Puma, its first platform for the mobile computing market designed to counter Intel’s successful Centrino platform. Puma combines a new AMD Turion X2 dual-core mobile processor with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics and an ATI chipset. This new platform already has a number of […]

P>Trend Micro today announced Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 for small businesses, an update to its data loss prevention software designed to protect user data from being sent out without authorization. The Cupertino, Calif. company also introduced Worry-Free SecureSite, a hosted service that scans an e-commerce Web site daily for newly found vulnerabilities. Many of the […]

For years, chipmaker VIA Technologies has not competed with Intel and AMD in the desktop and notebook space, but now it’s challenging them with a very low power processor that even runs the notoriously taxing game Crysis. The VIA Nano, developed under the code name “Isaiah,” is a single-core, 64-bit superscalar x86-compatible processor with a […]

The glut of memory supply in 2007 was great for computer and electronics makers, as well as consumers, but terrible for companies in the memory business who were forced to lower prices. Basic economic theory says when there is an oversupply, prices drop, and to increase the price, reduce the supply. Instead, memory manufacturers like […]

Sun Microsystems is taking the term “open” to new levels with the addition of numerous open source technologies along with its own. The company will make a series of announcements at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week that show Java, at age 13, is learning to play well with others. Sun’s (NASDAQ: JAVA) […]