Apple Computer Inc.'s stock option troubles underwent extreme twists following
reports of a federal probe into the possible forgery of documents to bolster
executives' profits and that CEO Steve Jobs received 7.5 million stock options
in 2001 without proper board approval.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
Hard-disk drive manufacture makes move into online data storage.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/21/2006
Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers' computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2006
Microsoft announced it is shipping the released version 1 of its Microsoft Robotics Studio development environment for creating robotic software for a wide variety of hardware platforms.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe has demanded that CEO Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett Packard Corp. on Wednesday afternoon announced a wide-ranging agreement that could cause shock waves among large, enterprise-focused consultants and service providers.
Demand for microchips that help laptops, video game consoles and other gadgets connect wirelessly to the Internet pushed higher in 2006, a trade group said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Japan's trade watchdog is investigating Sharp, NEC, South Korea's LG.Philips LCD and other liquid crystal display manufacturers for allegedly agreeing to cut output to curb falls in panel prices, officials said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. still has more cost-cutting ahead, even after a massive restructuring that has sliced the work force by 10 percent, Chief Executive Mark Hurd told analysts Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the PC maker is shipping a unified, networked storage system based on the software giant's Unified Data Storage Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2006
Still trailing the iPod, Zune still selling better than expected for company, say officials.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/06/2006
Nvidia Corp. said Friday it has been subpoenaed by federal investigators who are probing possible anticompetive practices among makers of computer graphics chips.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2006
Diskeeper helps keep today's monster hard drives neat and organized.
- By Rick A. Butler
- 12/01/2006
For those who have been frequently frustrated in the past when new versions of Windows did not support their hardware, the times, they are a-changing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/21/2006
Shares of Dell Inc. fell Thursday after the company delayed its third-quarter earnings report and said federal regulators had begun a formal investigation into the computer company
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2006
Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has quietly discontinued a money-losing line of low-cost PCs aimed at helping customers in developing countries get access to the Internet, according to a regulatory filing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched the world's first "quad-core" processors, a new line of chips that feature four computing brains and improved performance over previous models with just one or two processing cores.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
No matter whether Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. or Sony Corp. wins the video game console war, there already is one huge victor: IBM Corp., which designed and makes the microprocessors for all three units.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
If Cisco Systems Inc. has its way, the Oakland Athletics' new ballpark in Fremont, California, will be the stadium of the future.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006