An obscure corner of the semiconductor industry became an international battleground Tuesday as Sony Corp. became the fifth company ensnared in a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust probe into the sales of a particular type of memory chip.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2006
Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet's dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be passe.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2006
Seagate Technology LLC hopes its new security system for the hard drive will become the most formidable barrier between computer data and thieves.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2006
Company quietly fixes screen freezing component flaw in several thousand machines used in Maryland.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., Sept. 6, 2006
Hacker who cracked DVD copy-protection technology now claims to have done the same with iPods, iTunes.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Microsoft to allow OEMs to offer Vista upgrade for Vista-enabled PCs bought with most recent Windows OS installed.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Recall, affecting wider swath of laptops, becomes official for U.S. consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2006
Video conferencing has long been plagued by the detached feel of talking to a television set, often with awkward audio delays and jerky video.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2006
Investigators dug through a Wall Street Journal reporter's trash as part of a now-discredited boardroom leak probe that cost the chairmwoman of computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. her job and led to criminal charges.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/20/2006
The number of laptop batteries Sony is recalling will total 9.6 million worldwide, the company said Thursday, shedding more light on the scope of a problem that has rattled confidence in the company's image.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. supplanted Dell Inc. as the world leader in personal computer shipments during the third quarter, returning the bragging rights to Silicon Valley for the first time in nearly three years, according to figures released Wednesday by two influential research firms.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2006
With its crucial computer services business coming up short again, IBM managed to wow investors with impressive third-quarter sales in its highly profitable hardware and software lines, including mainframes and Web applications.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2006
In another example of how mobile gadgets can carry malicious programs, Apple Computer Inc. said a fraction of its iPod players sold in the past month contained a virus that affects Windows systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2006
Apple Computer Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 27 percent, well past analyst expectations, boosted by sizzling sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2006
Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has a novel twist on the data center: a portable version of the hulking outposts that house nothing but computers and equipment needed to store and process raw data.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2006
Ubiquitous RFID chips can reveal lots of private info, so EU may regulate their manufacture if vendors don't step up with their own efforts.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
ThinkPad notebooks will now allow users to encrypt their hard drives at the press of a finger.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Europeans need to be reassured that radio frequency identification chips won't betray their privacy and can be turned off if desired, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
The government of Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation's 1.2 million schoolchildren, <i>The New York Times</i> reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006