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Fresh off its stunning acquisition of high-end gaming computer competitor Alienware, Dell has unveiled a pair of high-power, high-price notebooks for gamers. Described by the computer giant as "Dell's fastest consumer notebook," the new XPS M1710 will be packaged in a magnesium-alloy chassis in styl...
There's a good reason why Hewlett-Packard notebook computers have become so popular with consumers. They give you a lot for your money. Consider HP's latest media center locomotive, the dv8000. For around US$1200, you get a monster notebook with a 17-inch display, a state-of-the-art AMD Turion 64 pr...
In a move to reduce software piracy in China, Beijing has banned the sale of so-called "naked" computers, that is, personal computers sold without software, according to an announcement on Friday. The timing could be a political move to coincide with Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to t...
Last week I visited Hewlett-Packard's lab to see what they have in the works. Lab tours are one of the nice perks of this job. A few months ago I got to see Intel's rather extensive future lineup, and weeks ago I also witnessed Sun's rather disappointing event. However, HP, thanks to its new executi...
IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto semiconductor chips. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices. Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," w...
IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto semiconductor chips. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices. Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," w...
IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture. Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- ...
Germany-based chipmaker Infineon has announced that its memory chip spinoff, dubbed Qimonda, will officially launch May 1, ahead of the original schedule for the strategic move. Qimonda -- conceived in response to the challenges of running two very different kinds of semiconductor businesses -- will...
Dell has unveiled its latest notebook computer, boasting a lighter, slimmer design that incorporates wider screens and built-in cellular wireless capability that will work with Cingular, Verizon and Vodafone services for mobile connectivity. The new Dell Latitude D620 and D820, aimed at the business...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new intellectual property licensing initiatives for its mouse and keyboard technologies. The hardware licensing initiative is a first for the software giant. The initiatives make Microsoft technologies, including U2 interface detection and switching technology, Tilt ...
Intel is readying a plan to aim its processors and computing platform at the business world, hinting at a Centrino-style campaign similar to the one the chip giant employed to push wireless technology into mainstream use. The enterprise market brings a variety of challenges for the company, but Inte...
In the midst of the Game Developer's conference in San Jose, Calif., last week, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista would miss its do-not-miss date. Then, Dell, which does not typically do acquisitions, bought the premier gaming PC builder Alienware. Each event has within it the potential to in...
Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk drive, a development the South Korean company calls a "historic milestone" for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive technology. Samsung announced the new flash-base...
PC hardware upgrades ushered in with Microsoft's forthcoming Vista operating system should deliver a bump in year-end shipments and revenue for vendors, according to Samsung. The electronics giant stressed the advantage for users of making a $100 to $250 upgrade of flash memory and other hardware v...
A new chip material -- silicon-on-sapphire -- is starting to make an impact on the way mobile phone handsets are produced, helping to fuel a technological "arms race" in the mobile industry, recent research suggests. A report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strategy Analytics examined wheth...
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