Hardware

Once perhaps the most prominent seller of desktop PCs to consumers, Gateway has announced a new small business server aimed at diversifying its product line, increasing its margins, and leaving behind its more recent marketplace struggles. Gateway announced its new E9220T server as a "low-cost, entr...

Apple has done what it does best once again. Fans and the media alike are abuzz trying to guess at what the company will reveal Sept. 7 at a "special event" in San Francisco. Because Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new products and because its iPod is still the portable music player to have,...

Have IBM and HP outpaced Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers? IDC declared it so on Friday, but Gartner's numbers tell a different story. Generally speaking, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.6 percent year over year to US$12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005, m...

OPINION

The Future of the Home Entertainment PC

The consumer electronics industry has had a hard time with standards. Each manufacturer has its own specialty and few components work well with products from other companies. CE products have a mixed ease-of-use record. The most famous problem is probably the VCR which had the ability to time-shif...

Sirius Satellite is looking to get a jump on its satellite radio competition -- mainly XM -- and leverage the increasing popularity of the medium via its new portable player, touted as a wearable satellite radio that allows users to capture and store Sirius content as well as MP3 and WMA files. Siri...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...

Some pundits contend that if Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP is going to break through the barrier between the living room and the home office, it's going to have to do it on the notebook platform. Toshiba is taking that notion seriously with its new line of Qosmio portables. The late...

After delivering the industry's first 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive in January 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products this week set out to close the performance and capacity gap between desktop and laptop computers when it announced its latest hard disk drive. The MHV2160BT is a 4200 RPM, 160 GB 2.5-...

After nearly two weeks of speculation, Intel this week began detailing its switch from existing NetBurst chip architecture to a new processor platform that borrows heavily from its Pentium M mobile chip, a move that rival AMD is paralleling in order to adjust to the market preference for notebooks a...

After nearly two weeks of speculation, Intel this week began detailing its switch from existing NetBurst chip architecture to a new processor platform that borrows heavily from its Pentium M mobile chip, a move that rival AMD is paralleling in order to adjust to the market preference for notebooks a...

Personal computer shipments this year and next will grow by double digits, but that won't translate into the big revenue gains for PC makers, according to a preliminary forecast released yesterday by Gartner, of Stamford, Conn. Compared on a year-to-year basis, Gartner predicted worldwide PC shipmen...

Enterprises are constantly looking for ways to reduce their IT expenses, and hardware purchases represent a significant portion of those costs. "Companies want to avoid buying faster systems year after year and grid computing has that potential," said John F. Andrews, chief operating officer at mar...

With the Zotob virus allegedly being spread by improperly patched notebook computers and bringing down an impressive number of news sites last week, the future of the notebook computer, at least as we now know it, may be changing dramatically. As far as direction, strangely enough, it is once again ...

Reports of Apple's inability to patent the interface software in its popular iPod music player and Microsoft's efforts to stake its claim to such technology through its own patent application have sparked wide speculation that Microsoft might make royalties off the Apple devices, which sold to the t...

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