SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity …
Microsoft’s ‘Apple tax’ claims are ‘stupid,’ counters analyst
Microsoft Corp.'s claim that customers pay a $3,400 “Apple tax” when they buy Macs rather than Windows-based PCs is “silly” …
iPhone 3.0 preview sways 20% of cell phone owners to buy Apple
Even though Apple Inc. has yet to breathe a word about new iPhones, one out of every five cell-phone-owning consumers …
Couple sues Acer over sluggish Vista performance
An Ohio couple has sued Acer America Corp., accusing the computer maker of deceiving customers by claiming that laptops with …
Asus readies slim multimedia PC-in-a-keyboard
Taiwan's AsusTek Computer Inc. early this summer plans to launch the most radical member of its popular Eee family of …
Lenovo offers workstations with Intel’s Nehalem chips
Lenovo became the second major PC maker to announce workstations based on Intel's upcoming quad-core Nehalem chips, which are due …
A search is launched for Conficker’s first victim
Where did the Conficker worm come from? Researchers at the University of Michigan are trying to find out, using a …
Symantec launches cloud-based storage service for the masses
Symantec Corp. formally unveiled its cloud-based storage service, Norton Online Backup, marketing it as a consumer product for managing up …
EMC unveils new features for home, small-business NAS drive
EMC Corp.'s Iomega Corp. division Tuesday unveiled new features for the Iomega StorCenter ix2 network-attached storage (NAS) drive, including Web …
HP launches entry-level Itanium servers
Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched a new line of Integrity NonStop servers that the company says offers improved performance over its …
Sun aims for SSD future in servers
Sun has laid out more of its plans for using solid-state drives in its servers, which it says will help …
HP expands virtual storage offerings
Hewlett-Packard aims to cut the total cost of storage while allowing enterprises to keep adding capacity and forging ahead with …
Juniper introduces Adaptive Threat Management
Juniper is this week introducing software that lets security platforms – even those made by other vendors – share and …
Sun’s stellar NAS in a can
Not so long ago, we tested the Sun Fire X4500 Storage Server, aka Thumper, which was a dual-CPU, dual-core Opteron-based …
Apple launches new iMacs, Mac Minis, Mac Pros
As had been rumored, Apple this morning upgraded its line of iMacs, Mac Minis, and Mac Pros, with improved processor …
3G netbooks: Are they the cell phones of the future?
Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere. I've spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder …
BlackBerry Curve 8900 hits the hotspot with VoIP
RIM has developed a knack for pulling customers into new BlackBerry devices. That's no mean feat. BlackBerry is the most …
Lenovo Constant Connect serves as an e-mail go-between
Business travelers will be able to use their BlackBerry smartphones to automatically forward e-mail to their ThinkPad notebook PCs with …
Symantec to deliver cloud-based backup service
The product is based on technology the company acquired with SwapDrive Inc. in June for US$124 million. A Symantec spokeswoman …
Symantec to deliver cloud-based backup service
Symantec will begin offering an online storage service targeted at consumers by the end of next month. The product is …