Andy Patrizio

Fujitsu Computer Systems has introduced two new notebooks, one an update to its popular convertible tablet/notebook and the other an ultramobile PC the size of a day-timer, which has only been available in Japan till now. The Lifebook U810 weighs a little more than 1.5 pounds and offers a 5.6-inch LCD with touch screen functionality […]

AMD today introduced a new specification for improving the performance of software parallelism. As it is, many developers have to learn the complex art of parallel processing for the two- and four-core world we now live in, and that only gets harder in an eight-core-and-beyond world. The specification is designed to aid in improving performance […]

A group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) offered up what they felt was a new and unique way to target spammers at the recent USENIX Security 2007 conference in Boston. As it turns out, their idea isn’t so new. Spam most often takes the form of a sales pitch, […]

AMD announced that major x86 operating system vendors are preparing modifications to their OSes in advance of the release of its quad-core Opteron processor, Barcelona, due to ship to OEMs this month and to customers in September. Microsoft (Quote), Novell (Quote), Red Hat (Quote), Sun (Quote) and VMware have optimized their operating systems, supporting tools […]

With the change of seasons comes a change in Salesforce.com. The company today released Salesforce Summer ’07, which marks the availability of its Apex development language and a new buzzword to learn. Software as a service (SAAS) is now passé. Say hello to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is Salesforce.com’s on-demand applications combined with Apex, a Java-like […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Four months after he joined Sun Microsystems, Debian Linux distribution creator Ian Murdock discussed his plans to bring Linux-like distribution sensibilities to Sun’s OpenSolaris operating system. OpenSolaris is an open source project with more than 60,000 participants who get to dig into the code base that makes up Solaris. The problem, […]

The software-as-a-service market continues to show strength with yet another initial public stock offering, this time by NetSuite, the on-demand business software firm formed in 1998 by Oracle chief Larry Ellison and a former Oracle executive. NetSuite’s ERP (define) software is used by some 5,300 small and medium-sized businesses to run their companies, according to the […]

Researchers at a Dutch university have submitted work on a laser-based hard drive head that they claim can run up to 100 times faster than current magnetic heads, but the viability of the technology is questionable. The researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen have published a paper in the Physical Review Letters on a new laser […]

What would you accomplish in a 21-day stretch? For Miguel de Icaza of Novell, it was banging out an open source clone of Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application development framework. de Icaza is the project leader for the Mono initiative, an open source version of .NET and a vice president at Novell. Since Silverlight is […]

Rich Internet Applications (define) were supposed to be the solution to client-installed software. No more dealing with upgrades or version updates, because the latest version of the application would be sent down to the client and accessed via a browser. Then a funny thing happened: Supporters of RIAs and software as a service (SAAS) (define) started turning […]