The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007
Acer Inc., one of the largest computer makers in the world, launched a recall Wednesday of about 27,000 laptop batteries, becoming the latest company to warn of faulty Sony-made lithium-ion batteries that could overheat and cause a fire.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry
- By The Associated Press
- 04/23/2007
Those with a desire to see how well messaging runs on 64-bit power but without the infrastructure or money to put that kind of environment in place now have a way to take a free, week-long test drive.
Hewlett-Packard Co. maintained its lead over Dell Inc. in the worldwide personal-computer market as industry shipments continued to grow in the first quarter, according to reports released Wednesday by two top technology research firms.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Research in Motion confirmed the outage Wednesday morning, but disclosed no details about the cause.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
After enduring a brutal year of plunging profits and massive job cuts, Intel Corp.'s first-quarter profit surge and sunnier financial forecast has analysts optimistic that the chipmaker's painful turnaround is working.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
The company said it earned $1.61 billion, or 27 cents per share, in the first three months of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
A former Oracle Corp. executive has been named Dell Inc.'s chief marketing officer.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Toshiba Corp. -- known among consumers for its televisions, laptops and DVD players -- will begin selling portable hard drive products as well, becoming the latest company seeking to capitalize on people's expanding collections of digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/16/2007
IBM has found a way to connect chips inside products ranging from cell phones to supercomputers, an advance that promises to prolong battery life in wireless devices and eventually speed data transfers between the processor and memory chips in computers, the company said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs said Monday it has fixed a leak that allowed hackers to discover the keys for unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/10/2007
A federal judge has tossed out an antitrust lawsuit filed against seven memory chip makers, but left the door open for the complaining customers to revive the case with more detailed price-fixing allegations.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/10/2007
Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group plans to launch a global unit to promote sales to individuals and small businesses, a company spokesman said Thursday, as the company tries to establish itself as an international competitor.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/05/2007
A Harris Interactive survey shows most users not as willing to upgrade their current systems to install Vista, at least not yet.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2007
Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor -- and a case of corporate potty mouth.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007