Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
I used to think that hard-drive models would take over the camcorder market as miniDV slowly faded into the horizon. I've since changed my tune after using flash-based models, especially those that include some onboard memory.
Asus first released the low-cost, low-power Eee PC in the fall of 2007, winning rave reviews for the 7-inch $399 laptop, which cut overhead by using a tiny 4GB solid-state hard drive and a custom Linux operating system with preinstalled software such as Firefox and Open Office.
We're not even two months into the new year, and we've already seen Apple's remarkably slim MacBook Air and Toshiba's update to its featherweight Portege R500.
The Asus EN8800GT is the first card we've reviewed with Nvidia's new GeForce 8800 GT graphics chip. You should be able to find this card for just less than $300 or so online, which puts its real world price a bit higher than Nvidia's suggested price of about $250.
For raw performance, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 chips have lingered behind their Intel Core 2 Duo counterparts all year. Only aggressive pricing from AMD kept its old dual-core CPUs in systems and on store shelves.
The current flood of excellent gaming laptops (Dell's XPS M1730, HP/Voodoo's Envy, and Alienware's m9750) means that PC gamers have plenty of choices when it comes to picking a new mobile rig.
The StorCenter Network Hard Drives are the latest version of Iomega's home-targeted network-attached storage drives. They are basic NAS drives that offer up many of the same features that the competition offers.
Like the name suggests, the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini is the tiniest member of the OneTouch 4 family of external hard drives.
At the same time it revamped its iMac, Apple also more quietly updated its smaller-scale Mac Mini desktops, adding a faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor in place of the old Core Duo chips. The result is more or less competitive performance compared to similar Windows PCs.
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
I used to think that hard-drive models would take over the camcorder market as miniDV slowly faded into the horizon. I've since changed my tune after using flash-based models, especially those that include some onboard memory.
Asus first released the low-cost, low-power Eee PC in the fall of 2007, winning rave reviews for the 7-inch $399 laptop, which cut overhead by using a tiny 4GB solid-state hard drive and a custom Linux operating system with preinstalled software such as Firefox and Open Office.
We're not even two months into the new year, and we've already seen Apple's remarkably slim MacBook Air and Toshiba's update to its featherweight Portege R500.
The Asus EN8800GT is the first card we've reviewed with Nvidia's new GeForce 8800 GT graphics chip. You should be able to find this card for just less than $300 or so online, which puts its real world price a bit higher than Nvidia's suggested price of about $250.
For raw performance, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 chips have lingered behind their Intel Core 2 Duo counterparts all year. Only aggressive pricing from AMD kept its old dual-core CPUs in systems and on store shelves.
The current flood of excellent gaming laptops (Dell's XPS M1730, HP/Voodoo's Envy, and Alienware's m9750) means that PC gamers have plenty of choices when it comes to picking a new mobile rig.
The StorCenter Network Hard Drives are the latest version of Iomega's home-targeted network-attached storage drives. They are basic NAS drives that offer up many of the same features that the competition offers.
Like the name suggests, the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini is the tiniest member of the OneTouch 4 family of external hard drives.
At the same time it revamped its iMac, Apple also more quietly updated its smaller-scale Mac Mini desktops, adding a faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor in place of the old Core Duo chips. The result is more or less competitive performance compared to similar Windows PCs.
Last January, when Steve Jobs rechristened his company by ostentatiously excising the word "Computer" and leaving it as simply "Apple Inc.," he did so during the very same public event when he first showed off the iPhone.
Dell announced Thursday afternoon that a year-long investigation into its accounting practices has ended and the company plans to restate earnings back to 2003.
Fans of ultraportable laptops have had a lot of products to be excited about in recent months, with two excellent models in particular standing out - -the Toshiba Portege R500 and the Sony VAIO TZ150.
Dell Inc is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, told Reuters.
n electrical problem at a Samsung Electronics Co. factory Friday forced a partial halt in production at the world's largest memory chip maker, the company said, raising prospects of a global shortage
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Friday it shut down six of its chip production lines following a power cut at a plant near Seoul, prompting expectations of tighter supply and a rise in prices.
Hard-drive camcorders have been slower to catch on than I would've thought. Sure, they cost a bit more than their DVD- or tape-based equivalents, but the convenience of having such a large storage capacity -- and not having to deal with tape -- make them appealing.
The European Union's top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing unit (CPU) business.
Chipmakers around the world reported disastrous second-quarter results as they failed to combat some of the biggest price drops in the sector, but on Wednesday said the worst was over for now.
The LaCie Biggest FW800 is a four-bay external SATA RAID drive that supports several levels of RAID, hot-swapping, and a variety of connection options. It comes in two capacities: 1 terabyte ($1,050) and 2 terabytes ($1,530). Connection options include USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and FireWire 400 (using a FW400-to-FW800 cable).
The HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8120n is proof positive that quad-core processing is ready for mass consumption. This $1,150 entertainment-minded desktop serves up Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, a quad-core chip that up to this point we've seen only in much higher-end systems meant for gaming.
The Seagate FreeAgent Go drive is a compact portable hard drive that combines fast data transfer speeds with file sync capability and a portable PC environment.
Dave Gerardi, a magazine editor and freelance writer in the suburbs of New York City, was trying to catch up on some work at home. Suddenly his computer screen froze. Thinking the glitch was routine, he restarted the machine.
Though most digital cameras produced today have sufficient resolution to make the spec itself almost a nonissue, the same can't be said about camcorders.
Say what you will about market leader Dell (and many have), but with its top-shelf XPS line, the company has consistently put out distinctive laptops that feature the most advanced components on the market.
Apple's unveiling of the iPhone at this year's Macworld trade show quietly signaled the end of Moore's Law as we know it. At the same time, it ushered in a new era of technical innovation, driven b...
The CineMagix Grand Theater represents Velocity Micro's first foray into the realm of the all-out home theater PC.
It was perhaps fitting that Kodak launched its foray into the inkjet printer market at the NBC studio where Saturday Night Live is broadcast. Like the graying comedy show, Kodak has been showing its age of late, and it paid a huge price for not recognizing how quickly the market for traditional film would evaporate.
Minivans and big SUVs are sometimes referred to as "living rooms on wheels." As entertainment technology improves, shrinks and becomes more portable, that expression is becoming more and more literal.
The chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 was the showdown of man vs. machine: the world's greatest chess player versus the world's greatest chess-playing computer.
Supercomputers don't come draped in a cape or tights, but they're heroic nonetheless.
Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.
Racing to solve the world's most urgent problems - and to out do one another in global rankings - supercomputer designers have unleashed almost unimaginable power. A look inside the vast, chilled r...
August was the cruelest month for the computer company Michael Dell founded in his University of Texas dorm room 22 years ago. In close succession, Dell Inc. recalled 4.1 million laptop batteries b...
The textbooks say that summer does not officially end until the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 or Sept. 23 (depending on the time zone you're occupying at the time), but for millions of young people it's over the moment the first class bell rings for the fall semester.
Pop quiz: What new technology has the United States and Japan engaged in the virtual equivalent of the Space Race? The surprising answer: It's biotech.
AMD is going after Intel in court, but it has already struck where it really hurts. After 20 years of unequivocal Intel supremacy, the market for x86 microprocessors has finally become - and for th...
Margie Backaus is standing on a 17-acre plot outside Secaucus, N.J., shaking her head in disbelief. Garbage bags and broken glass litter the ground, and weeds have taken over the parts of the land ...
Margie Backaus is standing on a 17-acre plot outside Secaucus, N.J., shaking her head in disbelief. Garbage bags and broken glass litter the ground, and weeds have taken over the parts of the land that aren't bald. At least the view is nice, if you like power lines, shipping containers, and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Regardless of what the market makes of the impending nuptials of PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, one clear winner in the match-up appears to be Nvidia, at least as far as traders are concerned.
If you travel for business as much as I do, you probably spend more time looking for a high-speed Internet connection than you do looking for your hotel.
When Lenovo announced early last year that it would buy IBM's personal computer business, the company's shares surged.
While sales of desktop PCs are slowing down, the spike in popularity of laptops, Xbox 360s, digital video recorders and iPods has boosted hard drive manufacturers nonetheless.
Last year, Nokia became the world's largest camera maker when it shipped 100 million cameraphones. Top Nokia executive Anssi Vanjoki took credit for driving Konica-Minolta out of the camera market, noting that the company first predicted the demise of the camera business in 2000. Now the company is setting its sights on the music player and camcorder markets, by adding those functions into its phones. One development that may help cell phone makers like Nokia push music players on to cell phones: NEC has developed a new chip that allows cell phones to play music for up to 50 hours. That would be a big improvement over the iPod, which claims a battery life of up to 20 hours.
Change is inevitable, and that's generally a good thing. Granted, you won't find many dinosaurs happy about the sudden climate change 65.5 million years ago, but in the grand scheme of things the w...
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Much to Wall Street's dismay, Intel is continuing to invest billions of dollars in Itanium, a chip that most of the industry has written off.
The holidays are past, the sales are on, and perhaps you're tempted to buy yourself the technology toy that Santa somehow forgot to drop down your chimney.
When Seagate named Frank Biondi, a former CEO of Viacom, Universal Studios and HBO, to its board of directors on Thursday, the news drew little notice.
HERE'S CAUSE FOR HOLIDAY CHEER: PRICES FOR FLAT-PANEL TVs and computers have been falling like snowflakes. (If it seems to you as if prices are drifting up, perhaps it's because the elves have been...
More than 1 million Windows users bought Mac computers for the first time this year, according to a recent report.
Last week Hewlett-Packard announced that it is acquiring two small software makers, Peregrine Systems and AppIQ, to bolster its enterprise software business. These deals, the first big software moves made under new HP CEO Mark Hurd, are a good start, but they aren't nearly enough to cure the company's software woes.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Comic book super hero The Flash was known for his ability to get from one place to another with amazing speed.
Advanced Micro Devices has been chipping away at Intel's lead in a key market and beating it to the punch with several new technological advances, but before AMD can take on the behemoth that is Intel, it'll have to do a lot more, industry analsyts said.
The best roadmap to IBM's hardware future is the amazing thumbnail-sized processor known as the Cell chip--the heart, soul, and brain of the new Sony PlayStation 3 game box. Of course, since this i...
This summer, when a group of independent computing researchers compiled a list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, 25 of those on the list--including a Cray system that ranked 10th--were powered...
If you're willing to forgo extras, you can snap up a brand-new PC for as little as 300 bucks.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It could be a confusing holiday season for some holiday shoppers.
Apple's announcement last month that it was switching from IBM PowerPC chips to Intel chips was one of those seismic events whose aftershocks continue to be felt for a long time.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's the consumer, stupid. That might as well be the motto for Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital.
To reach the lab where IBM, Sony, and Toshiba engineers have spent four years and more than $400 million toiling in secret on a computer chip that, if they are right, will usher in a dramatic new e...
Imagine plunking down $100,000 and walking away with your very own supercomputer. The low-cost computing revolution means you can now get that result with a handful of off-the-shelf components. By ...
No. 50
IT'S FITTING THAT 2005 SHOULD be the year Dell is named America's Most Admired Company. The computer maker turns 21 years old in May, and as it attains the age of majority, it has grown from an ind...
Samsung's announcement last week that it expects to see prices of its dynamic RAM chips fall by 30 percent in 2005 wasn't terribly surprising.
Shortly before Jerry Sanders stepped down as chairman of Advanced Micro Devices last spring, Hector Ruiz, his handpicked successor as CEO, took the company co-founder aside for what Ruiz hoped woul...
Chip manufacturers have a problem, and it's a doozy: As chips get smaller and faster, they also run hotter. The trend can't continue, says IBM Systems and Technology Group VP Bernie Meyerson: "The ...
A German manufacturer of technology commonly used in personal computers has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $160 million fine for engaging in an international price-fixing conspiracy that drove up computer prices, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems.
At Sony Pictures Imageworks, the special-effects house behind Spider-Man 2, there's no such thing as faster. "You just get it done better," says VP for technical operations Bill Villarreal. Yet the...
Michael Jordan was at the top of his game--basketball, that is--when he decided that baseball would be a logical extension of his athletic skills. But Jordan struck out, never reaching the big leag...
There was a point in 2000 when SanDisk seemed to have it made. The company's flash memory chips were a favorite in the endlessly expanding telecom industry, and digital-camera manufacturers couldn'...
Advanced Micro Devices, the computer industry's spunky, pugnacious comeback kid, has had an amazing few weeks. On January 20 it announced that last year's fourth quarter was its first profitable one in over two years. Subsequent news underscores why.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Intel Corp. (INTC) will unveil its newest Pentium chip Monday, a processor code named Prescott that was delayed from late last year.
Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri calls it "a gift from God."
Apple asserts that its new dual-processor Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer.
One of the most indispensible tools of campus life is the cellphone, and I have two recommendations: the T-Mobile color Sidekick phone/PDA/web browser and e-mail device ($300) and the Nokia 3650 (r...
The darkest times, the years Cray Inc. employees came to call "the occupation," began in 1996. One of the earliest signs of trouble was, strangely enough, the Beach Boys. It was summer, just a few ...
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton
In Silicon Valley, it's known in some quarters simply as "the hunger."
It's an ordinary Saturday afternoon: You're in the bedroom sending e-mails from your laptop when your wife, who's in the kitchen, picks up her Pocket PC and swoops into your hard drive to copy the ...
Ahhh, spring. It's the time of year when the birds warble sweetly, the sun smiles warmly, and the FedEx delivery person gets really, really cranky because of all the new gadgets arriving at the FOR...
Setting up a wireless network at home allows everyone in the family--and maybe even your neighbors too!--to share your high-speed Internet connection. No longer tied to a desk, teenagers can use l...
The confusion over rival DVD formats has lots of consumers burning mad. Who can blame them? Go into an electronics store and you're asked to choose: DVD-R, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, or DVD+R/RW.
It may be the most sophisticated factory ever built. In a cavernous building the size of several football fields, rows of multimillion-dollar machines loom over white-suited workers. Air scrubbed f...
As we bid adieu to 2002--and not a moment too soon!--let's pause to appreciate the products that brightened an otherwise dull year in personal technology. How tedious was 2002? My favorite new prod...
In spring 2000, as the Nasdaq plunged 2,000 points, two vastly different companies quietly embarked on programs to offer their employees a whiz-bang new technology called 802.11b, or Wi-Fi--wireles...
The labyrinthine vastness of Intel's nearly completed D1D semiconductor factory in Hillsboro, Ore., is every bit as breathtaking as the microscopic intricacy of the microprocessors it will soon sta...
Hector de Jesus Ruiz, the new chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, is a short, balding fellow who is so quiet and soft-spoken that his sentences often disappear into an inaudible mumble. In f...
All-in-one desktop PCs are hot, in part because computer makers are hoping the hip, space-saving designs will spur buying. The fire was fueled early this year when Apple unveiled its first-ever fla...
To hear CEO Scott McNealy talk, the most notable news about Sun Microsystems lately is that it is gaining market share against IBM and Compaq in big servers. His evidence: Sun's sequential revenue ...
printers
MP3/Audio player: Apple iPOD
Just 18 months ago, Advanced Micro Devices crowed with pride as it beat archrival Intel in the race to introduce the world's first PC microprocessor with a clock speed of 1,000 megahertz, or one gi...
It is worth remembering, now that mighty Intel has fallen from grace, that between 1985 and the turn of the century, this company pulled off one of the most amazing extended runs of technological, ...
Attention, class. School hasn't even started yet, and already you have to answer some tough questions when it comes to technology. Yes, you need a computer at college, but which one? Windows or Mac...
Apple's original iBook was the computer equivalent of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's album. With its whimsical toilet-seat design, its fruity colors, including orange, blueberry, and lime, and its buil...
As attempted billion-dollar heists go, this one was unobtrusive. There wasn't a pile of cash in the room or a trove of jewels stashed in a vault. The target was far more ethereal. Inside a banquet ...
My buddy Mike is a tooth-flossing fanatic. An apostle of good dental hygiene, he thinks nothing of whipping out a yard of floss after a meal, even at a restaurant table. Of course, he eats alone a ...
In more innocent times, people often left their front doors unlocked. The odds of a burglar trying the front door on any given day were small, especially in rural communities.
It seemed like deja vu all over again. Reverting to its Perils of Pauline mode, Apple Computer late last September fessed up that sales of its glossy, curvaceous personal computers were running off...
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
