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Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1 million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and fire damage, the company said. The affected game consoles were made before January 12, 2004, except in continental Europe, where the cutoff date is October 23, ...
Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled three new systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, taking advantage of the processor's price-performance advantage and in the process drawing ever closer to Intel's main rival. In announcing new BladeSystem servers, a workstation supporting dual-...
Intel, playing catch up with AMD, has announced that it has plans for the release of its much delayed 64-bit processors for desktop computers. Systems containing the 600 series Pentium 4 chips will be in stores next month, the company said. "With Intel and AMD, it's always a game of leapfrog. Someti...
IBM continued its extension to the small and medium business market this week as the company unveiled its entry-level, Unix-based p5 510 server, priced at just under $4,000. IBM new server for the SMB market matches similar moves by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun. All are responding to demand for mo...
Congressman Mike Thompson is hoping three times is the charm for his legislation to create a national recycling program for electronic waste. The California Democrat has twice before filed bills to establish national standards for handling e-waste only to see them whither and die in a parliamentary ...
Three technology giants -- IBM, Sony and Toshiba -- today took the wraps off of their jointly developed, much-hyped "Cell" chip, which the companies claim to be "effectively a supercomputer on a chip." A prototype was unveiled today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Franci...
2005 will see two big waves of new laptop computers. The first, based on Intel's new Sonoma platform, rolled in last week. The second, based on AMD's new Turion processor, is still several weeks off. Sonoma is the code name for Intel's Centrino bundle, which remains one of the most effectively sold...
Last week we talked about a number of platform companies that could drive the future of the personal computer. This week we look at PC hardware, and we will talk a bit about some of the unusual products that are already on the market. Most are built by small companies focused on unique segments, but...
During his daily commute into Manhattan from Long Island, George Miller's notebook computer can connect to dozens of networks without his even realizing it. Indeed, as Miller's train weaves and winds its way into the city, his notebook computer discovers dozens of unsecured wireless networks emittin...
Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones. Delivering on a promise to provide a single processor with digital baseband, memory, logic, radio frequency, power management and analog...
Imagine being able to have complete access to your hard drive and the corporate LAN in a device no bigger than a cell phone. No, Realm Systems isn't developing the next generation of the super small PDA. It just completed more than two years of research and development for a concept for the first ge...
In October, IBM released its first ThinkPad with a built-in thumb print reader that tied a scanner device to a security chip for added security. Company officials heralded the new product amid high hopes that this first of its kind biometrics security subsystem will set a new standard for computer m...
Samsung has found a way to increase memory while allowing for the ever-thinner profile of mobile devices, the company announced today. Its eight-die multichip package (MCP) creates an eight-layer chip stack 1.4 mm thick, the space normally taken up by four chips. The chips have a capacity of 3.2 GB....
As I was working up my impressions of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, one thing became painfully clear: The most important vendor, from the standpoint of interest, wasn't even there. Not since the beginning of the PC era has Apple had this much attention. While much of th...
AMD is poised to announce its new mobile processor, dubbed Turion, to take on the increasingly significant mobile PC market and to shorten Intel's head start in the thinner and lighter PCs that are currently popular. Although it has aggressively challenged and won market share from Intel with its se...
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