HP&39's Sandy Bridge-based laptop is for sale, but the delivery date is quoted as March 1--possibly allowing time to get a fixed chipset from Intel... read more »
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Sony will move beyond traditional Netbooks, a market it has never fully embraced, while Lenovo is making a case for these more powerful, but small la... read more »
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Hewlett-Packard shareholders shook off the warning from a shareholder advisory group that HP's board members-elect were too chummy with the company'... read more »
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Oracle today delivered a strong second quarter and said its Exadata pipeline is nearing the $2 billion mark. Oracle reported fiscal second-quarte... read more »
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Chip sales have been a lot healthier lately than they were amid the downturn of 2009. Semiconductor sales around the world hit $26 billion in Nove... read more »
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Some readers took exception when I stated in a post from last month on future-proofing your data archive that Microsoft's proprietary Office file for... read more »
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Three tech icons announced this week major leadership changes that took Silicon Valley by surprise. Apple CEO Steve Jobs got the ball rolling by an... read more »
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The IT market staged a healthy rebound last year, with global spending on IT products and services rising 8 percent from 2009 to more than $1.5 trill... read more »
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(Credit: Blizzard) Activision Blizzard and social-gaming company Zynga are being sued for alleged patent infringement. Walker Digital, an "inventi... 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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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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Comity (noun): A state or atmosphere of courtesy, considerate behavior, and mutual respect towards others' harmonious relations.Friendly understandin... read more »
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Dell is expected to roll out its hybrid tablet-laptop next week, as the PC maker takes aim at Apple's iPad with a novel twist on the tablet concept. ... read more »
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The search for people in the tsunami-ravaged areas of Sendai, Japan is almost impossible if you're overseas. Here's my brief account. Let me preface... read more »
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RIM&39's BlackBerry PlayBook. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Research In Motion may be planning to release the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as early ... read more »
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Best Buy is getting ready to bulk up its tablet offerings with new products from Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard, echoing a trend seen a few years back w... read more »
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It's no secret that companies of all kinds use third-party software in their own products. Mobile OEMs are a great example--new phones often contain... read more »
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Too busy to keep up with the tech news Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET News for Thursday, June 2. At D9, Windows 8 makes de... read more »
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrates an iPad-based color palette app used to mix, select, and paint colors. It&39's attached to a separate computer r... read more »
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Sony is readying a "hybrid" Vaio laptop equipped with Intel's Thunderbolt tech, according to a report. Sony is perfectly capable of making very th... read more »
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