Andy Patrizio

SAN FRANCISCO — Just two months ago at the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini could only tell the assembled how great its new Penryn chip design was going to be, but still had to play a few cards close to his chest in terms of specifics. Today, with Penryn now out and 12 new […]

With Office becoming an ever-increasing target for malware writers, Microsoft is offering a tool and guidance to help improve the security of Office 2007 and 2003. The Office 2007 Security Guide will be posted on Microsoft’s TechEd site on Tuesday and formally introduced at the Microsoft TechEd conference this week in Barcelona, Spain. The guide […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability and some additional offerings for its high performance computing (HPC) product line. The news, issued at the Supercomputing 2007 conference in Reno, Nevada, builds on the previously announced Constellation HPC clustering. Sun announced Constellation back in June. Constellation is a three-pronged petaflop-capable system consisting of ultra-dense blades, Sun’s X4500 […]

Dell has announced a refresh to its server line that offers some major changes to more than just the CPU. The server launch is taking place with Oracle OpenWorld as the backdrop and Intel’s concurrent but unrelated Penryn launch. As part of its server refresh, Dell is changing its modeling and numbering scheme. Servers now […]

It’s good to be a small to medium sized business these days if you’re looking for more technology solutions. IBM, HP, Sun and Dell are all showing greater interest in SMBs, that had long been the domain of local integrators, helping them replace a back room of wires and white boxes with integrated blade systems […]

Microsoft is making the rounds to preview and promote its forthcoming Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Server 7, the Web server that ships as a part of the operating system. A lot has changed in computing since the last major release of Microsoft’s operating system. Server software, however, is more change-resistant, since IT shops […]

The surest sign an operating system has arrived is when virus writers begin to target it. Welcome to the party, Mac OS X. Malware researchers found a new and, for Apple, extremely rare piece of malicious software for the Mac, which comes on the heels of a scathing security review of the Mac OS X […]

Political issues are finding their way to the Web in some ugly ways, and not just in postings on The Daily Kos and Free Republic, either. One Presidential candidate is being embarrassed by spammers, the rest are being hijacked by spoofers looking to infect computers, and it would seem al Qaeda has a software development […]

PC maker Everex has announced a low-cost Linux PC for the masses that it hopes will succeed where others have failed. The $198 price tag might help. The Everex gPC will hit Wal-Mart shelves today and is designed to attract new PC users. Running on Ubuntu Linux 7.1, the gPC is a mini-tower system that […]

Microprocessor vendors were not the only semiconductor vendors to enjoy a bang-up third quarter. Graphics processor units, or GPU sales were also excellent, according to numbers from Jon Peddie Research. Traditionally, the third quarter has decent growth during back-to-school and Christmas ramp ups, but this year sales saw their biggest sequential jump over the previous […]

It’s been a busy month for antivirus software, and ESET is the latest vendor to offer a comprehensive security product with the release of ESET Smart Security. This integrated security product expands the company’s NOD32 antivirus product to add antispyware, antispam and firewall security. NOD32 remains at the core of the product, and will be […]

The third quarter was a good one for chip makers, as worldwide sales grew 14.3 percent and worldwide PC microprocessor revenue rose 14.8 percent to $7.95 billion in the quarter, according to a new report by IDC. Mobile continues to be the most energetic of the market segments, and emerging nations are outpacing established markets, […]