Hardware

Dell announced on Tuesday seven new laptop models aimed at what it termed today's "digital nomads." The new laptops are the fourth generation of the Dell Latitude line and are designed with light weight and durability in mind. The Latitude laptops use new proprietary Dell technology that extends bat...

Advanced Micro Devices announced the upcoming availability of what it says is the world's fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The card is part of AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 X2 series. It's the most powerful graphics technology to come out of AMD, delivering a 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing pow...

Lenovo's going big with its latest laptop offering, the 17-inch W700 ThinkPad Workstation. The 8.3-lb. machine boasts a high-resolution WUXGA display and a host of powerful features to boot. The W700 -- starting at $3,500 -- is without doubt targeted at engineers and other users who need high-perfor...

Last week I thought it would be interesting -- given that both the Wall Street Journal and TechNewsWorld had covered my professional relationship with Dell regarding its new MP3 service -- to chat about what it would take to beat Apple. But in my analysis I left out one important thing: Apple is tri...

Following a nearly six-month delay from its original target release date, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of its SQL Server 2008 Wednesday. The software maker had initially planned to launch the database application in February, but in January said it would have to move the date bac...

Firing up a brand-new PC is a magic moment that can never be recaptured. The flawless performance, the lightning-fast speeds, the uncluttered desktop -- they're a thing of beauty. In time, though, just about all PC users will have to cope with their share of problems, from sluggish download speeds t...

Intel on Monday released technical details about its upcoming line of microprocessors, codenamed "Larrabee" in advance of the company's presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference, to be held in Los Angeles next week. The family of chips will be the springboard for a many-core -- as few as eight and up ...

Storage vendor Fabrik has introduced an external hard drive with a manufacturing process focused on reducing its impact on the environment. Fabrik claims its SimpleTech [re]drive is the world's most eco-friendly hard drive. "We spent a lot of time making sure this is an authentic and genuine green p...

Two years after discontinuing sales of its DJ line of digital music players, Dell plans to launch a new effort to snag a piece of the digital music market from Apple with its own device this September, according to a Wednesday report. Citing details provided by several Dell executives, the report de...

Dell rolled out its entry in the emerging ultra-small PC category Tuesday: the Dell Studio Hybrid. The desktop joins other systems in the category, including the Apple Mac mini and HP's Slimline series. The Studio Hybrid, roughly the size of a large hardbound novel, is about 80 percent smaller than ...

Intel announced on Thursday new processors built around its plans for a new category of highly integrated, purpose-built and Web-savvy system-on-chip designs. The company also unveiled its first eight products under its Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor family for security, storage, communications ...

PC users seeking an environmentally friendly desktop system can add the new CherryPal C100 desktop to the list of contenders. The machine, announced Monday, was designed by green computer maker CherryPal and contains no moving parts. With 80 percent fewer components, the minimalist system uses a sca...

OPINION

The Power of Balance

I like writing about conflict because it gives you more than one dimension to a story, and there were two interesting conflicts that I ran into last week. The first, more near-term, will likely define the direction of the notebook market, and it is important because it implies an ether/or decision w...

Samsung and Sun Microsystems have partnered to develop a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives with significantly high endurance levels, the two companies said Wednesday. The new device will provide much higher endurance levels than other flash memory devices curre...

The i2i Stream digital music broadcaster is the latest wireless music delivery innovation from Aerielle. It enables users to stream audio wirelessly from any device, including iPods, MP3 players, computers and home entertainment systems. The concept of wireless voice and music transmission over shor...

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