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There have been many indications in recent months that the music industry is on the cusp of a sea change, and two announcements on Monday suggested that the change is nigh. First, as anticipated in reports last week, Sony BMG Music Entertainment officially announced the launch of its Platinum MusicP...
Intel unveiled 16 new Penryn processors at the International 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday. Coming in a variety of form factors, all of the new chips are based on Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing process, and five of them represent the first Penryn-based processors built for l...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has created what it calls an "industry milestone:" a 2.5-inch computer hard drive capable of storing a whopping 500 GB of data. It also has struck a deal with computer vendor Asus, which will sell a notebook PC equipped with two of the drives. The new Travelstar 5...
Lenovo, maker of ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for businesses, on Thursday announced its first globally available line of notebook PCs aimed at consumers, the IdeaPad Y510, Y710 and U110. "Given that the consumer market represents over 40 percent of the opportunity worldwide, this is o...
While they are instrumental in disseminating information and raising environmental consciousness, our dependence on digital electronics is also putting ever greater strains on us and our environment. "Manufacturing a desktop computer and 17-inch CRT monitor uses at least 240 kg of fossil fuels, 22 k...
Consumers hoping to safeguard their holiday memories by storing pictures on their Windows Home Servers may instead want to save those files on their PCs' hard drives. A post made on Microsoft's WHS blog warns users that WHS contains a heretofore undiscovered file corruption bug. Although engineers a...
It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...
Microsoft took a big leap forward Thursday in its virtualization effort. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, which is now called "Hyper-V." Previously code-named "Viridian," the Hyper-V beta was expected in early 2...
Even though tablet PCs have been around for about five years, it's a category that until now Dell had not set foot into. That, however, is about change, and it will happen before the year is over. The PC powerhouse announced Monday it will begin shipping its new Latitude XT tablet PC this month. Th...
Toshiba will join the likes of SanDisk and Samsung by offering flash-based solid-state drives for notebook PCs during the first quarter of 2008, the company announced Monday. Incorporating flash-based SSD drives instead of traditional hard disk drives into laptop computers results in lower power con...
There were some interesting things going on last week and one of them I ran into by accident. First, I was amazed that Dell got into Best Buy, as this would be like Apple suddenly becoming a Windows reseller, and it falls into the "impossible" class of accomplishments. Speaking of impossible, Michae...
Researchers at IBM announced Thursday the development of a technological breakthrough known as a "silicon Mach-Zehnder elctro-optic modulator." The device would replace the copper wires normally used to transmit information between the multiple cores in a microprocessor. IBM's optical modulator woul...
Microsoft plans to put a version of its Windows XP operating system on One Laptop Per Child's platform, XO. The rudimentary computer is aimed at nations that do not have a widespread user base. The low power requirements -- bright screen, and hand crank which can augment available power -- are all k...
HP has expanded its BladeSystem product line -- popular among enterprise customers -- with a carrier-grade version. The platform is "optimized" for the heavy-duty requirements of telecom service providers and network equipment vendors, the company said. The BladeSystem Carrier-Grade Platform is inte...
Intel is working on a new low-power microprocessor apparently designed to run basic laptops in to be sold in developing areas of the world. However, the company is talking very little about it. "We are not discussing the timing or the specifications of the Diamondville product yet," Connie Brown, a ...
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