Microsoft loves netbooks, the ultra-small, ultra-cheap laptops that accounted for about one in every 10 notebooks sold in the last …
Don’t overhype WiMAX speeds, analyst warns operators
WiMAX operators who overhype their networks' peak speeds risk angering early adopters who feel their expectations haven't been met, an …
Beefed-up netbooks now a threat to notebooks
Microsoft and Intel’s attempts to confine netbooks to the low end of the market to protect mainstream notebook PC sales …
Apple to avoid netbook, try tablet in 2010, says analyst
Apple will wait until next year to enter the netbook market, and then will unveil not a knock-off, but a …
The shape of the coming netbook revolution
The netbook you know today gives just a taste of what's to come. Cheap, portable, and packed with features that …
Apple delivers jumbo security update for Mac OS X
Apple Inc. patched 67 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including two bugs that researchers used in March to walk off …
Samsung ships first 32GB memory card
Samsung Electronics Co. announced that it is shipping a 32GB NAND memory card, the highest-density embedded memory card to date …
What Google knows about you
“Google knows more about you than your mother.” Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made …
AMD gains processor market share on Intel
After five quarters of declining market share, Advanced Micro Devices gained ground in chip shipments over chief rival Intel during …
Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org’s independence
Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun …
GE develops optical disc material to hold 500GB of data
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of General Electric Co., said today it has made a breakthrough in holographic …
AMD plans 16-core server chip — but not until 2011
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today that it's designing a server processor with up to 16 cores, which would quadruple …
AMD to ship dual-core Neo, Istanbul this quarter
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it would ship new laptop and server processors later this quarter, which …
Mobile’s future is in links, ex-Nokia CTO says
The standard architecture that will realize the promise of mobile phones won't be hardware or software but a cloud-based platform …
Netbook computers spark corporate interest
One possible future of mobile computing is on display in classrooms in Fresno, Calif., where the public school district has …
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity …
Netbook computers spark corporate interest
One possible future of mobile computing is on display in classrooms in Fresno, Calif., where the public school district has …
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” …
Acer pushes multibrand strategy with product barrage
Acer Inc. took a big step forward with its multibrand strategy on Tuesday, aiming at increasingly smaller demographic slices of …
Analyst: Netbooks to stick with 10-inch screens
Despite a new crop of netbooks sporting 12-inch displays, vendors will mostly build models with 10-inch screens in coming years …