Computer News

January 26, 2009

Intel Readies Push into Mobile Internet Devices

Apple didn't take kindly to disparaging remarks made publicly last fall by a pair of Intel (INTC) executives about the iPhone and its chips, designed by ARM Holdings. ...

January 23, 2009

Microsoft Slams on the Brakes

Two days after President Barack Obama, in his inaugural speech, told the country to brace itself for tough times, the head of one of the most valuable U.S. companies ...

January 23, 2009

Craig Barrett's Mixed Record at Intel

Craig Barrett, the technology wunderkind whose manufacturing genius helped build chipmaker Intel (INTC) into one of the world's most powerful companies, will retire in...

January 22, 2009

Apple's Impressive Quarterly Numbers

There's nothing like a solid quarter to take the market's mind off bad news elsewhere. That happened on Jan. 21, when Apple (AAPL) released a report showing ...

January 21, 2009

Highest IT Salaries: San Francisco, London

Even as some of the world's biggest IT employers trim staff to withstand the recession, wages for those who remain employed in tech appear to be holding up. Pay for IT...

January 17, 2009

Broadband Bill Disappoints Nearly Everyone

The initial stab by the U.S. government to promote high-speed Internet access has something to disappoint nearly everyone. Most communications companies and consumer ...

January 15, 2009

Wireless: The Outlook Gets Murkier for Clearwire

Last May some of the biggest names in the technology and media business, including Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Sprint (S), and Comcast (CMCSA), teamed up to invest ...

January 14, 2009

Get Cell Phones into Schools

Evidence abounds that many schools don't consider technology central to their core mission. Mobile technologies such as cell phones, digital music players, and ...

January 14, 2009

Tim Cook: A Steady Go-To Guide for Apple

As Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs steps away from the helm for a six-month medical leave, the eyes of investors, customers, and employees are intently focused on his...

January 13, 2009

Spies in Your Mobile Phone

Just as advertisers and wireless companies are hoping for the business of marketing on mobile phones to take off, consumer groups are raising pointed questions about ...

January 9, 2009

Open, Schmopen: Wireless Networks Are Still Closed

Over the past year, there's been a lot of lip service in the mobile-phone industry about making our wireless networks "open." The idea, consumer and open network ...

January 9, 2009

In Hard Times, Chipmakers and Suppliers Butt Heads

The pain the recession is currently causing the semiconductor industry has been well documented, but it may also escalate tensions between chip equipment vendors and ...

January 9, 2009

The Real Cost of Delaying Digital TV

The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama wants Congress to push back a planned changeover to digital television. The delay, Obama's team argues, would give...

January 7, 2009

Intel Sales Take a Nosedive

In the most recent indication of the fragile state of the tech landscape, chipmaker Intel said fourth-quarter sales would fall short of its already reduced forecast. ...

January 7, 2009

Clearwire's WiMAX Launch

You could hardly turn around in Portland, Ore., in recent weeks without bumping into ads for the new mobile broadband service from Clearwire (CLWR). Product reps ...

January 6, 2009

Was Apple 'Adequate but Late' on Jobs?

Apple (AAPL) investors got answers to some of their nagging questions about the health of the company's chief executive, Steve Jobs, on Jan. 5 when Jobs disclosed in a...

January 5, 2009

Companies Seek PC Alternatives

PCs are so 2008. Computer users are warming to personal computer alternatives, including netbooks, handheld mobile devices—and in a growing number of cases, ...

January 1, 2009

Will This Bold Shakeup Save Dell?

Nearly two years since retaking the helm of his company, Michael Dell has just taken his toughest steps yet aimed at righting the ship. On Dec. 31, Dell (DELL) ...

December 31, 2008

Ten Stories that Defined Broadband in 2008

With every tick of the clock, 2008 is taking its final steps toward 2009, when the year starts afresh. From a broadband perspective it has been an eventful ...

December 31, 2008

Bringing Broadband to the Urban Poor

Anthony Celestine was a latecomer to the Internet Age. The 40-year-old Harlem resident has owned a small Jani-King commercial cleaning franchise since 2004, but until ...

December 31, 2008

Bechtel Rebuilds Its Computer Network from Scratch

Last year, Bechtel Chief Information Officer Geir Ramleth fulfilled what's only a pipe dream for most IT executives: He rebuilt Bechtel Group's corporate data network ...

December 23, 2008

Teardown of Sony's PlayStation 3

One of the great articles of faith in the consumer electronics industry might be stated thusly: "Time heals all costs." Basically it means that over time the parts ...

December 22, 2008

The Consumer Electronics Inventory Glut

Automakers aren't the only ones halting production as inventories pile up. The consumer electronics industry is also coming to grips with rising stockpiles of unsold ...

December 22, 2008

Why Netbooks Are Greener than Laptops

It was just over a year ago that small, low-cost netbooks hit the market, and since then they've become one of the hottest technology trends of 2008, with the top two ...

December 19, 2008

E-Books Are on the Rise, But Slowly

With Oprah pushing an e-reader to her audience, Google (GOOG) placing whole books online, and the popularity of programs such as Stanza, which turns the iPhone into a ...