Andy Patrizio

The long-awaited PC refresh cycle is poised to kick in, although consumer spending is still stronger than corporate spending, according to a new report from IT research firm Gartner. The firm is projecting a decent rate of growth for the worldwide PC market in 2010, and a second report shows first-quarter laptop sales are off […]

Dell has released its first major update to the KACE K1000 Management Appliance, rolling out a set of features aimed at improving businesses configuration and aiding in the power management settings on both Window and Macintosh computers. The KACE K1000, which Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) acquired last February, had been previously sold under the KBOX brand […]

For the first time in quite some time, Dell reported quarterly figures that beat expectations — and it was due to increased enterprise buying more than consumer and small-business spending, which had been the company’s best business throughout much of the 2009 downturn. For its first fiscal quarter ended April 30, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) reported […]

Microsoft on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Salesforce.com, accusing the on-demand CRM trailblazer of violating nine Microsoft patents. Details are scarce. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has not commented beyond the initial announcement of the suit. Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft, said in a […]

Thanks to a combination of improving product sales — particularly in a resurgent enterprise server market — and service contracts, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) reported revenue and earnings that beat Wall Street projections. For its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, HP posted non-GAAP income of $1.09 per share on revenue was $30.8 billion, handily beating […]

Sun is finally in the hands of Oracle but that’s not stopping its competitors from continuing to pursue its customers. Hewlett-Packard (NASDAQ: HPQ) today at the SAP Sapphireconference unveiled what it calls “Migration in a Box,” a complete service kit for Sun customers running SAP apps to move to HP systems. Migration in a Box […]

In the IT world, the lifespan of the average PC has typically been, prior to the recession, about three years. Once a PC passed its third birthday, it was considered ready for replacement as it became more prone to breaking down, while PC vendors accelerated their obsolescence by making parts less available and more expensive. […]

Under the leadership of CEO Sam Palmisano, IBM has pared down many segments it considered to be commodity businesses, including printers, hard drives and—most famously—its PC business. Yet IBM remains a chipmaker, albeit a small one, and one analyst thinks it’s time for that business to go as well. Boris Petrov, managing partner of the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Microsoft opened the doors to its Silicon Valley research center here to show off the latest technologies it has under development. The show, called TechFair 2010 Silicon Valley, is similar to the TechFest events held at Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) main Washington campus. Microsoft Research is the home to a lot of […]

Apple may be taking the next step in embracing a streaming and cloud-storage service for iTunes, if pundits are reading correctly into Apple’s shuttering this week of Lala.com. The Mac, iPad and iPhone maker purchased Lala.com, a streaming music site, in December. But this week it posted a notice on its front page informing subscribers […]