Andy Patrizio

Java developer SpringSource yesterday debuted its new application server, an enterprise-scale offering designed around modularity — as well as what the company considers a much-needed pruning of Java libraries. Over the course of its life, Java has had numerous technologies thrown into the stew that is Java Enterprise Edition. Some have become obsolete, while others […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – How many times have you printed out a document on a sheet of paper, used it once, and tossed it out? According to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 44.5 percent of the time that’s exactly the fate of a printed page. Print out something like directions or a memo for […]

Sun Microsystems has introduced a new virtualization service that enables software vendors’ Solaris-based applications run in an on-demand environment without having to rewrite their code. Solaris On Demand converts installed applications into software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Through its use of virtualization, it enables the software to add “multitenancy,” or support for simultaneous users, without messy code […]

IBM and its joint semiconductor development partners are set to begin producing semiconductors using the same breakthrough technologies that made Intel’s Penryn line of chips a success. The process is called high-k/metal gate manufacturing and it replaces the silicon dioxide in chips that gave the Silicon Valley its nickname. By using the element hafnium instead […]

SAN FRANCISCO — On-demand software company NetSuite on Wednesday took the wraps off its new global services suite, designed to offer consolidated business management tools for companies with multiple regional or multinational subsidiaries. NetSuite OneWorld, unveiled Thursday at a launch event here in the city’s financial district, supports customer relationship management (define), accounting, Enterprise Resource […]

For 15 years, Nvidia has quietly grown from a maker of chips for videogame players into a significant presence among semiconductor makers. And the company has gained high profit margins unburdened with the huge capital expense of high volume manufacturing because it’s always contracted out its chip fabrication. In that time, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has […]

HP has unveiled a program designed to help clients move their aging mainframe applications to more modern languages and platforms. Such efforts to bring old COBOL applications into the rich Internet application (RIA)/Web 2.0 world are not unusual but it is rare to get a company the size of HP behind it. The HP Modernization […]

For the second year in a row, Intel is holding its spring Developer Forum in China as opposed to a San Francisco show, as had been tradition for several years. In another break from tradition, Intel’s PC processors stepped aside and let the newest member of the product family, the Atom processor, take center stage. […]

HP continued efforts to woo the midsized business market, by introducing on Monday new hardware and software offerings designed to appeal to those customers’ specific needs. Among Monday’s releases are a new rackmount server, a new blade for HP’s existing chassis, Linux support offerings and tie-ins for Seibel CRM, Oracle 10g database and secure remote […]

Adobe Systems has announced the public beta of Adobe Photoshop Express, a free, rich Internet application (RIA) version of its flagship image editing application accessible via a Web browser. Through the new service, users also can store up to two gigabytes of images online — where they can upload their favorite files, edit them in […]