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Consumers and small-office and home-office workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they re...
Intel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks. The company spent $3 billion to build the new "Fab 32" processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first hi...
A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it...
Dell on Tuesday announced the XPS 420, "a premium multimedia PC" designed to let users go semi-pro in editing their pictures and videos and posting them online with the pre-configured system. "Our goal is to help people turn their digital lifestyle dreams into reality, whether its viewing family mom...
One by one, major technology vendors are rolling out programs meant to offer small businesses the chance to source all of their tech needs, from desktop and mobile PCs to printers, servers and software to support it all. The trend is unmistakable and, in recent months, everyone from Dell to IBM to r...
Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from data center to desktop. The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that l...
Broadcom announced on Monday a new, single-chip high-speed packet access processor that integrates multiple 3G cellular and mobile technologies on a single, low-power, 65 nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor die. The "3G phone on a chip," which Broadcom says is the world's first such si...
There are some weeks when I wonder if we have too many executives and politicians who truly don't have the sense to come in out of the rain. Last week was one of those weeks. The Recording Industry Association of America may have lost a war by winning in court and creating a martyr. On the positive ...
Gateway upped the ante for plus-sized computer monitors with the Thursday rollout of its latest flat screen, which offers users resolutions at more than four times the level of a standard 720p high definition. Billing it as "the world's first 'Quad-HD' display," Gateway said the XHD3000 is perfect f...
It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...
Toshiba chose the CEATEC electronics show in Japan this week to demonstrate the capabilities of a notebook supercharged with the new "SpursEngine" processor. Journalists attending the event seemed particularly impressed with the way the Cell Broadband Engine technology enabled a laptop to sense hand...
Not giving up on its foray into portable media players despite the iPod's dominance, Microsoft is expanding and improving its stable of Zune devices and pairing their release with a new, music-oriented social networking site. Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J. Allard announced three...
Sony will launch its first organic light emitting diode TV this December in Japan, the company announced Monday. The 11-inch "XEL-1," which Sony calls the world's first such device, sports a screen just 3 millimeters thick and will sell for about $1,736. There is no North American release date plann...
OK, we clearly can't talk about the events of last week without mentioning the huge surprise "Halo 3" was in terms of popularity and execution. I was having doubts prior to the launch, but those doubts are dead now. This is a wonderful game. In fact, it's actually hard to find anyone saying anything...
Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center. Collectively called "Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center," the solutions are WiFi hardware devices that deliver video, high-definition TV, music...
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