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Toshiba chose the CEATEC electronics show in Japan this week to demonstrate the capabilities of a notebook supercharged with the new "SpursEngine" processor. Journalists attending the event seemed particularly impressed with the way the Cell Broadband Engine technology enabled a laptop to sense hand...
Not giving up on its foray into portable media players despite the iPod's dominance, Microsoft is expanding and improving its stable of Zune devices and pairing their release with a new, music-oriented social networking site. Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J. Allard announced three...
Sony will launch its first organic light emitting diode TV this December in Japan, the company announced Monday. The 11-inch "XEL-1," which Sony calls the world's first such device, sports a screen just 3 millimeters thick and will sell for about $1,736. There is no North American release date plann...
OK, we clearly can't talk about the events of last week without mentioning the huge surprise "Halo 3" was in terms of popularity and execution. I was having doubts prior to the launch, but those doubts are dead now. This is a wonderful game. In fact, it's actually hard to find anyone saying anything...
Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center. Collectively called "Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center," the solutions are WiFi hardware devices that deliver video, high-definition TV, music...
The failure of a system controller card at an AT&T office in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday apparently caused a communications outage that grounded airplane flights and resulted in delays throughout the nation. The interruption of communications occurred at 11:25 a.m. CDT at one of 20 air traffic cente...
Looking back at last week, it was a combination of news from the past and news from the future. Starting out the week, we had the EU ruling come down against Microsoft. I think if the company is smart, it can play this to its advantage and actually benefit from the ruling. What took up most of my we...
Intel, which wants to be at the forefront of a trend toward more powerful mobile devices capable of full Internet capability, said its new Menlow platform will be a big part of that future. Discussed at this year's Intel Developer's Forum by Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general...
Intel touted its processor roadmap during its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Tuesday, and the company even showed off a working model of its 45 nanometer next-generation processor, dubbed "Nehalem," as well as functioning 32 nanometer chips. In addition, the processor giant is gearing up to ...
Hoping to offer something for all budgets and desktop computing power requirements, Advanced Micro Devices is planning to sell triple-core versions of its multi-core processors. The Phenom Triple-Core units will be less expensive than its forthcoming top-of-the-line quad-core, AMD said. "Triple-core...
I just came back from the Atlantis resort and a nice vacation playing on some incredible water slides, swimming with dolphins, and floating on a mile-long endless pool. I had a ball, but it appears that others decided to be very busy in my absence. AMD, for one, brought out its long-awaited Barcelon...
With its eye on notebook users and photo-sharing fans, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out three new wireless mouse products and two new webcams. First, citing increasing U.S. retail notebook PC sales, Microsoft unveiled the Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 and the Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 7000, bot...
Sun Microsystems, the company whose former CEO used to denounce Microsoft as often -- and as sarcastically -- as possible, is now selling Windows. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT pioneer has "signed on" to become a Windows Server original equipment manufacturer, meaning it will install Microsoft Windows...
In the latest x86-based server processor war between Intel and AMD, both companies are on the offensive. Last week, Intel preemptively launched the first strike with its Xeon 7300 series, and Monday, AMD rolled out its Quad-Core AMD Opteron series. Both claim the quad-core name, but Intel's version ...
Lenovo introduced on Wednesday its newest energy-efficient desktop line with the ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor PC that combines a small footprint the size of a telephone book with 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron energy efficient processors. The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percen...
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