Andy Patrizio

Tradition has it that when Microsoft releases a new operating system, hardware OEMs shift to the new platform almost immediately and phase out the old OS as soon as possible. But Dell’s customers have told it, not so fast, pardner. For the second time since establishing IdeaStorm to solicit customer feedback, Dell (Quote) is changing policy […]

The Intel (Quote) Developer Forum in Beijing, China, this week has geared its announcements toward the smaller end of the systems scale to complement yesterday’s focus on the desktop and server space. The next generation of the company’s Centrino mobile processor technology, code-named Santa Rosa, is due in May, with laptops based on the technology […]

In the course of Tuesday’s earnings conference call with press and analysts, Intel’s CEO inadvertently confirmed what Microsoft would not: that there is a service pack coming for Vista later this year. While discussing its projections, Paul Otellini was asked where Vista fits in to Intel’s (Quote) sales projections for the year. Otellini responded that he […]

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, […]