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Lenovo unveiled its latest offering for business users Tuesday -- two new workstations. The ThinkStation desktop computers are a first for Lenovo. The No. 3 computer maker has focused primarily on sales of its ThinkPad laptops. It is also the first time the Chinese hardware maker has added a new Thi...
After the initial warranty period has expired on a desktop or laptop computer, consumers, SOHO users and SMBs may find themselves stranded when computer woes strike. Without costly warranty extension plans or an IT department, there is little to do but pay up. An alternative to costly local repair s...
Microsoft and HP announced the availability of the HP MediaSmart Server running Windows Home Server. The new class of server enables consumers to protect, connect and share digital media and documents. Aimed at consumers, the MediaSmart Server is the flagship product in what Microsoft said is an ent...
I've been covering the Leopard launch for the last three weeks and will now wrap it up. There have been some issues with the new OS, but nothing critical, and it appears to be a near-flawless launch. Moving to a more interesting battle, Black Friday is coming up and it looks like the HD DVD folks ar...
On the heels of Intel's launch of an environmentally friendly new chip fabrication plant in Arizona, IBM is showing it, too, knows how to be green. The company announced a new silicon reclamation process that won a recent pollution prevention award. The new process, in operation at IBM's Burlington,...
Consumers and small-office and home-office workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they re...
Intel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks. The company spent $3 billion to build the new "Fab 32" processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first hi...
A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it...
Dell on Tuesday announced the XPS 420, "a premium multimedia PC" designed to let users go semi-pro in editing their pictures and videos and posting them online with the pre-configured system. "Our goal is to help people turn their digital lifestyle dreams into reality, whether its viewing family mom...
One by one, major technology vendors are rolling out programs meant to offer small businesses the chance to source all of their tech needs, from desktop and mobile PCs to printers, servers and software to support it all. The trend is unmistakable and, in recent months, everyone from Dell to IBM to r...
Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from data center to desktop. The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that l...
Broadcom announced on Monday a new, single-chip high-speed packet access processor that integrates multiple 3G cellular and mobile technologies on a single, low-power, 65 nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor die. The "3G phone on a chip," which Broadcom says is the world's first such si...
There are some weeks when I wonder if we have too many executives and politicians who truly don't have the sense to come in out of the rain. Last week was one of those weeks. The Recording Industry Association of America may have lost a war by winning in court and creating a martyr. On the positive ...
Gateway upped the ante for plus-sized computer monitors with the Thursday rollout of its latest flat screen, which offers users resolutions at more than four times the level of a standard 720p high definition. Billing it as "the world's first 'Quad-HD' display," Gateway said the XHD3000 is perfect f...
It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...