The crisis in Japan may make the already impossible-to-get iPad 2 even more difficult to find.
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Apple CEO sees the new and improved MacBook Air as the future of notebook computers.
The features and size are leading many to debate whether the redesigned MacBook Air is really a netbook in disguise.
How do computers remember things?
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Artist's memorial to the dead raises ire in Germany. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
For decades the Iron Curtain divided Germany because the socialist German Democratic Republic did not wish to continue losing its citizens and skilled workers to the "golden" West.
SanDisk CEO Eli Harari once plotted to dethrone the iPod with a series of "iDon't" ads a marketing campaign that cast Apple iPod users as fad-driven sheep, and promoted his company's Sansa media players as the smart alternative.
A group of middle-aged Germans is standing in a room full of underwear. No, this isn't the preamble to a joke. The location is the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Museum in the eastern city of Dresden --- an Aladdin's cave of Ostalgie, the term coined to refer to nostalgia for the days of the communist system.
As middle-of-the-road as a laptop gets, Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent go-to choice for basic computing, especially if you take the time to configure a system to your needs via Dell's online configurator.
The Santa Clara-based company responded Tuesday with a 25% jump in profit and record sales in the quarter, fueled by strong sales of processors for laptop computers
Foreseeing the future is a tricky business. Why, for instance, should Hollywood moguls have paid much attention when the USB standard emerged in the mid-90's?
Do you think you will be using a personal computer for the rest of your life?
We recently declared that the HP Compaq 6910p might woo corporate users away from Dell and Lenovo; after spending some time with the $1,049 Acer TravelMate 4720, we think it's a prime candidate to woo users away from HP.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects strong demand and cost cuts to boost second-half profit in its chip business, it said Friday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hewlett-Packard's new Pavilion Slimline s3020n PC comes bearing HP's new glossy black vision for all of its PCs and laptops.
In 2006, we reviewed a nifty little accessory from Neuros that allowed you to take video that's output from just about any analog video source and convert it to an MPEG-4 video file that's suitable for viewing on portable devices such as the iPod with video, the Sony PSP, and various smart phones and handhelds.
Federal officials are examining security measures at a nuclear weapons laboratory after three computer memory sticks from the lab were found at a suspected methamphetamine lab, officials say.
On the first Tuesday of every month, 10 or so commodity managers from across Hewlett-Packard's hardware divisions dial in for a conference call - but the civility often ends there. For an hour or m...
Shooting at apples has been a popular pastime ever since the days of William Tell, the 14th-century Swiss crossbow legend who famously shot one off the head of his son. In more modern times, many c...
The attorneys general of 34 states will file a lawsuit in a California court Friday charging several leading computer chip makers with a price-fixing conspiracy, building on precedents set by federal court convictions, according to the California attorney general's office.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Prompted by the runaway success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, Microsoft finally got around to updating Internet Explorer, and its second beta release of Internet Explorer 7 is drawing reactions. Blogger Shel Holtz tried it out and found a lot to like, though he thinks some of the new security features will intimidate non-tech-savvy users. Informationweek, in its review of IE7, asked if Firefox had finally met its match.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Kodak can't go digital fast enough. And there's a company that could speed that process up: SanDisk.
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.
A U.S. business achieved a long-anticipated intellectual-property milestone last month: It became, as far as most legal experts can tell, the first company sued for patent infringement by a mainlan...
Samsung Electronics Company and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to plead guilty for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
The tech sector's hopes for an end-of-year jolt are riding on hot gadgets, old equipment and the Home Shopping Network.
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.
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...
Almost half of the world's 300,000 child soldiers are girls. But despite efforts to raise awareness about their needs, little is being done, according to the international group Save the Children.
SONY'S NEW PSP (PLAYStation Portable) handheld entertainment system just went on sale in the U.S. for $250, and there's no doubt it will quickly exacerbate the U.S. trade deficit with Asia. As a po...
It was big news when the father of the PlayStation confessed that Sony's consumer electronics strategy had been a disaster. Speaking to a group of Tokyo journalists in January, Sony Computer Entert...
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.
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.
Technology stocks followed the broader market down Wednesday, despite glaring bright spots by Oracle, Taser and Cyberonics.
Technology stocks finished lower Friday as shares of Dell Inc. restrained the Nasdaq after the PC maker said first-quarter earnings were capped by computer memory prices and analysts worried the trend would affect others in the sector.
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'...
The first week of the tech earnings flood is coming to a close. So what have we learned so far?
Chip sales and more importantly prices are booming. Just take a look at the most volatile section of the market, computer memory.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - I'm pretty handy around the house. I also happen to be a geek. So, you'd think I'd jump right into a project that involved both screwdrivers and video drivers.
The Mars Opportunity rover is hurtling toward the surface of the red planet for a touchdown planned Sunday at 12:06 a.m. ET (0506 GMT).
Three years after the tech and telecom bubble burst, wiping out trillions in shareholder value, technology stocks are roaring back. Even though the Nasdaq is still far from its March 2000 high, it...
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Only recently, it seemed as if the personal-computer industry was set on boring PC users to death. The Internet, once a blast, has been swamped by porn and pop-up ads. Games have moved to stand-alo...
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton
Over the decades chipmakers have learned to take a fair portion of bust with their booms. It's part of life for a product whose demand is tied to the ebb and flow of new technology. But the industr...
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...
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...
Computer makers--as well as tech writers--have long suggested making a laptop your only computer. The appeal is unmistakable: Without a bulky monitor and box, you have more room on your desk; you c...
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This Spring, every major PC maker, from Compaq to Toshiba, is coming out this spring with a laptop loaded with the new Pentium 4 laptop chip. Barring parts shortages, you should soon be able to buy one of these machines, featuring performance you used to see only on big desktop models.
I am a hamster. We all are. For 20 years I have been on a wheel created by the PC industry, constantly feeling behind and racing to keep pace, buying new systems for my one-man software consultancy...
Windows shopping
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 ...
Think you've got a pretty strong grip on the progress of the Info Age? Okay, answer this: How many transistors do you own?
The laptop of luxury
When I was in college, back in the last Ice Age, my parents gave me a wonderful birthday present: a Norelco portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. "Portable" meant an eight-pound box that swallowed e...
PIXEL PERFECT If you take digital photos, how do you display your e-pictures on the mantel? You can boot up your PC every time someone asks to see your wedding pictures, but a better option is the ...
What's going under your tree this holiday season? If you're like most Americans, you'll be wrapping up something digital--a new computer, perhaps, or a camera, an organizer, even a microscope for t...
So many stocks, so little time. And how to choose in such a high-flying market?
That family photo on your desk sure looks a bit dated. Billy does look cute in his Little League uniform, but isn't he heading off to college this fall? I know; you could replace it with another sh...
Computers nowadays come in a dizzying array of sizes, shapes, colors (thanks, iMac) and brands. Prices too: You can buy a machine for much less than $1,000 and get the kind of performance and featu...
This past Christmas, I decided to end our family's tradition of technology hand-me-downs. Before that, when I upgraded my home PC, my son would get the old one. But now that he's a teenager, I deci...
Predicting where memory-chip maker Micron Technology's stock is going is as imponderable as a quantum physics equation. Nonetheless, Micron is a good lesson on why investing in tech companies is so...
You're cruising down the highway when suddenly you hear a noise like the sound of dice being shaken in your car's motor. Does your tank have some cheap gas in it, or are your engine's main bearings...
Iomega, the company that brought you the Zip storage drive, has never been given to modesty. But even by Iomega standards, its recent introduction of a new product was something to behold. At the L...
The world of digital technology is famous for its rapid pace of innovation, and the language that describes it changes just as quickly. Because the computer industry is constantly spinning out new ...
Admit it: The very idea of shopping for a new home computer gives you a headache. In the past the process always boiled down to either spending at least $2,000 or paying less and settling for the P...
Weary of waiting endlessly for your old computer to download stock or fund prices from the Internet? Are your kids or grandkids bugging you to buy a machine that runs the latest version of Quake? O...
IT'S A HIGH-TECH VICIOUS CIRCLE. NEW computers get more powerful by the day. Better hardware leads to fancier software, which leads more and more people to bank and E-mail and do their homework by ...
To rejuvenate an aging machine or to bring a new one to peak performance, you may need to add on one or more accessories. Here, in alphabetical order, are the eight most useful peripherals and upgr...
After six years of tinkering with her computer, Jenny still isn't happy. She vents her frustration quietly, shuffling through a pile of bills for a string of electronic face-lifts: a color video ca...
In the decade since I wrote High Output Management, the basics of management have remained largely unchanged, particularly as they pertain to middle managers. The book is being reissued this month ...
Small-cap stocks have caused lots of teeth-gnashing on Wall Street lately. With their growth prospects last year clouded by rising interest rates, companies with market capitalizations of $1 billio...
Would you buy a two-seat sports coupe as basic transportation for a family of four with an English sheepdog, or a minivan for off-road driving? Of course not. Buying a computer for use at home pres...
If you're a technosavvy road warrior bothered that every time you want to tap into the company database you have to find a phone jack to connect your laptop via modem, fear no more. Database softwa...
When homemaker Sue Muff of suburban Seattle pays the monthly bills, she doesn't waste time laboriously writing out checks by hand while pecking at a calculator to figure her balance. These and othe...
The phenomenal growth in investment choices over the past 20 years has been matched only by the equally unprecedented rise in both living costs and the debt we've taken on to support our lifestyles...
Semiconductor chips, those tiny electronic devices that look like bionic beetles, are so small and inscrutable that it's hard to believe they can do square roots, paint dazzling pictures on compute...
GUESS WHO'S gaining market share in the chip business? Japan, right? Not so fast, folks. Last year it was U.S. chipmakers that added to market share -- modestly, but in an almost flat year. Of $58....
Smarter and slicker, the new fliptop and notebook computers are also more affordable. This year, worldwide sales are expected to hit 3 million, up 38% since 1989, says Dataquest, a Silicon Valley r...
NOT MANY MANAGERS refer to themselves as bandits -- at least not publicly. At Motorola, though, the term is an accolade. How does Motorola outhustle the Japanese on quality and price? It ''borrows'...
''Did you get the IBM yet?'' asked my 10-year-old son as he burst through the front door, flinging his jacket on the stairs and setting his books on my postal scale. ''Not an IBM,'' I admonished, w...
THE GOOD TIMES are rolling again for U.S. makers of semiconductors, the tiny electronic circuits-on-a-chip that form the heart of modern computers. Two years ago pessimists were saying, ''Sayonara,...
AFTER YEARS of crying for government help, America's ailing semiconductor industry is getting gobs of it. The Defense Department has unveiled a plan to inject over $2 billion into advanced chipmaki...
AFTER YEARS of complaining about unfair trade practices, U.S. chipmakers finally seem to have their Japanese rivals on the run. The Commerce Department, pursuing three antidumping actions, has prop...
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