Despite a new crop of netbooks sporting 12-inch displays, vendors will mostly build models with 10-inch screens in coming years …
Wireless USB: Was it worth the wait?
As the Universal Serial Bus (USB) approaches its 13th birthday, like other adolescents it's eager to start thinking and acting …
Palm Pre: First impressions
Ever since Apple changed the game for mobile devices with the iPhone back in 2007, every major device manufacturer has …
Mobile Internet Device: A new category?
With Samsung's introduction of the Mondi handheld device at the International CTIA Wireless conference, the question of defining its product …
Intel, Microsoft look away as beefed-up netbooks blur lines
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp.'s attempts to confine netbooks to the low end of the market to protect mainstream notebook …
Sun aims for SSD future in servers
Sun has laid out more of its plans for using solid-state drives in its servers, which it says will help …
Why Toshiba is buying Fujitsu’s HDD business
With the acquisition of Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive (HDD) business, Toshiba would position itself to become a leading contender in …
Alcatel-Lucent founds 4G industry group
Known as the ng (next-generation) Connect Program, the new industry group will bring together device manufacturers, application developers and content …
WiMAX coverage to reach 800 million by 2010, Intel says
Intel expects WiMAX deployment to increase rapidly over the next year as the company projects that 800 million people worldwide …
Trends that will change our lives
The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first …
Drive makers agree on TCG encryption standard
The world's largest disk drive makers have pledged to support three new Trusted Computing Group (TCG) encryption standards for hard …
Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that …
Nokia ends production of its only WiMax device
After selling them for just a few months, Nokia has decided to stop making its N810 WiMax Edition handheld computer. …
Toshiba showcased its TransferJet prototypes
The first prototypes from Toshiba based on TransferJet, a short-range, high-speed wireless data transmission system intended as a replacement for …
Managing & simpliflying storage
It is a testimony to our love of digital entertainment and dependence on the Internet, that no matter how large …
Windows 7 may add spice to CES
Software could overshadow gadgets at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, with Microsoft Corp. expected to shed light on its upcoming …
Gartner: Semiconductor revenue drops on economic woes
Semiconductor companies are feeling the effects of constrained budgets and a slowdown in demand for products like cars, consumer electronics …
Intel, Micron venture starts making 34nm flash chips
A company owned jointly by Intel and memory maker Micron Technology started mass producing NAND flash memory chips using tiny …
5 tech companies that could use a bailout
Now that the government has pledged US$700 billion to bail out the financial banking industry and is considering lending $25 …