Andy Patrizio

Amazon launched a new generation of Kindle e-book readers on Wednesday, featuring improved screen performance, a smaller design and an even lower price to compete against Apple’s iPad. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) claims the Kindle’s E Ink-powered screen has 50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader, plus the new design is 21 percent smaller and […]

Oracle has begun a series of briefings to outline its server strategy and provide guidance to Sun customers wondering what the database giant will do with the newly-acquired server hardware business. The move comes after a Gartner report published at the end of June detailed a number of complaints Sun customers made to Gartneranalysts. The […]

Research in Motion has posted another blog update with screenshots of its forthcoming BlackBerry OS 6, this time emphasizing something the BlackBerry is not known for supporting: rich-media content consumption. RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) has said it would ship the OS this quarter, and the Twitter hashtag #BB6iscoming seems to tease that it’s coming soon. The […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) once again exceeded all analyst projections to report record sales and earnings on the strength of all of its products except the iPod. For its third fiscal quarter ended June 26, Apple reported revenue of $15.7 billion and net income of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. The numbers flattened a […]

Motorola already had a hit with its Droid phone last year, and now the Droid’s big brother, the Droid X, is following in its footsteps. However, like Apple, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is contending with a headache in the mobile phone blogosphere. There have been reports that the Droid X’s bootloader will brick the phone — […]

Despite whispers of a double dip recession hitting next year, the near-term IT buying outlook looks good, according to a study conducted by the IT industry association CompTIA. Six in ten IT firms surveyed said they expect revenues in the third and fourth quarters to significantly or moderately exceed revenues from the first half of […]

Several financial analysts have issued earnings previews for Apple, which reports its June quarter figures on July 20, and all expect the firm to beat its own projections as well as the Wall Street consensus. Among the findings, they note that the iPad’s success is not coming at the expense of Mac sales. Gleacher & […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Intel held its annual Research@Intelday here at an ironic place to disclose future technologies: the Computer History Museum. On the bottom floor, are systems like the first Apple, one of the first Vax computers, the first NeXT cube and the first server used to power Google. One floor up and Intel […]

IT services provider CSC has announced a significant expansion of its cloud services offerings. By consolidating old systems into new, multi-core servers, CSC wound up with a lot of empty space in the data centers. So what else to do with that floor space but put in more hardware? “When you do a lot of […]

The forgotten child at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this year was the device that made the company what it is in the first place: the Macintosh computer. CEO Steve Jobs was on stage for an hour and a half, minus a few minutes for guests, and didn’t mention the Mac once. It was almost an […]