SAN FRANCISCO--As expected, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors today approved a payroll tax cap for some businesses willing to move to the city'... read more »
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More than 90 percent of open-source installs at the Flisol event were done on laptops or Netbooks. (Credit: Johanna DeBiase) BUENOS AIRES, Argenti... read more »
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No. 2 chipmaker Samsung is showing Intel how to succeed in the brave new world of tablets and smartphones. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is competitive wit... read more »
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Google has taken a big step in trying to redefine the laptop, making it purely Web-centric, untethered to the Windows past. Chromebooks are, in a way... read more »
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says SAP owes it $4 billion in damages for infringing its intellectual property. Paul Meyer, Oracle's damages expert, puts... read more »
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For the Consumer Electronics Show, set for early January, 2011 is shaping up to be the year of the tablet. Yet the most (some would say only) succes... read more »
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If your mobile device has Wi-Fi enabled, the device's previous location may be listed on the Web, CNET reported this week. Google publishes the e... read more »
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An upcoming Intel Atom chip may blunt the growth of tablets based on the widely used ARM processor--with the possible exception of Apple, according t... read more »
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Intel's MeeGo software seems destined for obscurity, in the wake of the Nokia-Microsoft agreement announced yesterday. Why do I say that Intel ma... read more »
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Acer&39's success in the PC market was largely due to its ability to sell a lot of Netbooks. (Credit: Acer) Acer's rise in the PC world has been... read more »
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Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are the latest PC makers to endorse Advanced Micro Devices' new "Fusion" laptop processors that are expected to make inro... read more »
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All businesses need capital to grow, and that includes online merchants. Yet such e-commerce vendors are underserved by the financial services industr... read more »
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Inside of Google's newest smartphone is a lot of solid, though fairly standard-issue hardware. One item on the outside of the phone raises a few eyeb... read more »
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Kiva has appeared on our pages numerous times over the years, but we can''t resist sharing news that brought the microloan platform to our attention o... read more »
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Mathematica 8 can solve mazes. (Credit: Wolfram Research) Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 8, bringing some rudimentary human-language s... read more »
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When it comes to being a leader in the tech industry, how important is the "coolness" factor Clearly, the iPhone and the iPad are cool products, th... read more »
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Intel will launch its next-generation Sandy Bridge chip line on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show, the chipmaker confirmed today. The launc... read more »
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom p... read more »
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Advanced Micro Devices' chip strategy over the past several years had some flaws that if not fatal, at least cast some doubt on how the chipmaker wou... read more »
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Presaging laptops to come from Apple and Dell, Lenovo announced an ultrathin ThinkPad today that houses Intel's newest Sandy Bridge chip. The 14-i... read more »
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