Intel Corp. has received approval to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in China amid booming Chinese demand for chips used in personal computers and mobile phones, the government said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar and make its search portal the main service on all new computers worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
U.S. regulators filed civil fraud charges Monday against four former Nortel Networks executives, including ex-CEO Frank Dunn, alleging they repeatedly altered the telecom equipment maker's revenue to meet Wall Street expectations.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/13/2007
Printers with data drives used for storing, reproducing copied documents can be security weak link if not protected.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/13/2007
Two months ago, Fred Poteet walked into a Sprint store to resolve some technical problems with his cell phone service. When he walked out, he had a new wireless contract -- with Cox Communications Inc., his cable TV operator.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/12/2007
The high-flying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of 2006 has given way to a company in financial peril, saddled with debt and bleeding from a brutal price battle with its larger and suddenly resurgent Silicon Valley archrival, Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/09/2007
Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. that are designed for businesses under the Hitachi brand in Japan.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/09/2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday it will restate its financial statements as far back as fiscal 2004 because of past stock option reporting errors and it anticipates a $250 million reduction in previous earnings. Chairman and Co-CEO Jim Balsillie is stepping aside as chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2007
Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves."
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2007
Even if you never have to use these, it's good just to know they're there.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 03/01/2007
A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s sixth-largest shareholder said Wednesday it opposes a proposal floated in the wake of the company's boardroom spying scandal that would allow shareholders to nominate candidates for the company's board of directors.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Computer maker Lenovo Inc. on Thursday recalled about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries used in ThinkPad laptops after receiving four reports of the Sanyo-built batteries overheating.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Analysts wonder how choppy the waters will be.
- By Scott Bekker and Ed Scannell
- 03/01/2007
Massachusetts man is alleged to have defrauded Cisco of millions through a scheme involving orders of 'defective' hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007