Andy Patrizio

When Intel began a series of cost-cutting measures late last year, the Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was going to be one of the casualties. Normally, IDF is a twice-yearly ritual, held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, but Intel was ready to make it a once-a-year event. Instead, Intel (Quote) took the event on the road […]

Google announced late on Friday that it would purchase online advertising firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash from its two primary owners, the private equity firms of Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. In addition to picking up a second form of advertising to compliment its AdSense technology, Google gets demographic data and the […]

VMware has become synonymous with virtualization, but Microsoft  is in the game, too. Today, however, the software giant told its customers it will have to wait for its latest. In a blog post, Mike Neil, general manager of Microsoft’s virtualization strategy, said that Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1, which has been in beta […]

Intel is marking its 30th anniversary in the embedded systems market with some new chips and a stylish new motorcycle from Orange County Choppers that employs embedded technologies. The quarreling Teutul family, which achieved national fame for its motorcycle designs and profane verbal brawls on the Discovery Channel series American Chopper, presented the bike to […]

Intel Wednesday announced a major aspect of its upcoming next-generation Centrino technology, codenamed “Santa Rosa.” It will incorporate its vPro desktop management technologies with the Centrino mobile platform, thus creating Centrino Pro. Notebooks based on Centrino Pro are expected to be available later this quarter. This will be the first mobile platform to support low-power […]

Intel is marking its 30th anniversary in the embedded systems market with some new chips and a stylish new motorcycle from Orange County Choppers that employs embedded technologies. The quarreling Teutul family, which achieved national fame for its motorcycle designs and profane verbal brawls on the Discovery Channel series American Chopper, presented the bike to […]

If Adobe Systems didn’t set a record with today’s product announcements, it sure came close. The company unloaded a tidal wave of products, leveraging its 2005 $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, to release 13 new software products and six suites. The 13 new products cover pretty much every major application from both Adobe (Quote) and Macromedia, […]

So, 10 gigabit Ethernet too slow for you? How about 160 gigabits? That’s the latest breakthrough from IBM (Quote) researchers, who have come up with an optical networking chip measuring 3mm by 5mm but has 16 times the throughput of today’s networking chips. Now before you think this will mean more MP3s and dirty videos, think […]

DC is revising down estimates for server dollar and unit sales in the coming years, owing to the increasing popularity of virtualization (define) and more powerful servers where one does the job previously done by many. IDC already reported that unit sales have slid, while dollar sales are growing, an indication that fewer but more powerful […]

Seagate on Monday announced a partnership with ASI Computer Technologies to deliver laptops with encrypted hard drives. The advantage of these drives is if the notebook is lost or stolen, the data on the drive is inaccessible. ASI provides the laptop equivalent of a “white box,” or an unbranded PC to value added resellers (VARs) […]

Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec sailed through the 802.11 Working Group, setting the stage for final approval some time in 2009. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group sent out a copy of Draft 2 two months ago, with a deadline of last Friday for submitting up or down votes. The final vote was 83.4 percent, […]

Netuitive has released Netuitive SI for VMware, a piece of management software aimed at balancing resource performance across virtual machines running on a single server. The software comes at an important time in the evolution of virtualization software; while several products that enable multiple pieces of software to run on one physical machine exist, there […]