The HP Touchpad fire sale reaches Old Blighty causing bargin hunters across the country to go into a frenzy clearing stock shelves within a hours of announced price drop More...

With its 45nm production process now in full swing, AMD has announced the release of a low power variant of its popular Shanghai (Opteron) Server CPU. The "energy efficient" Shanghai sips just 55 watts... More...

Kaspersky Labs, maker of a popular antivirus application, has detected a new malicious program capable of controlling a user's mobile phone account. The Trojan called "SMS.Python.Flocker" is written in the scripting language Python, targets Symbian... More...

IT vendors seem to believe that if you say the word "cloud" enough, an marginal business idea will yield up revenues and profits. Much the same thing happened with grid computing - remember that? -... More...

Here's a netbook with a twist: Emtec's 10-inch Gdium Liberty has no hard drive. Instead, it will ship with a bootable USB storage stick (dubbed the G-Key) that runs Mandriva G-Linux and has over 50... More...

Lost in the Windows 7 hype, Microsoft also released the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the companion to the client OS. The company is aligning Windows Server 2008 R2, which briefly was... More...

Asustek Computer announced that the company saw its first quarterly loss since the company was founded in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company plans to reduce executive salaries until its operations return to normal.... More...

The version of Windows 7 Beta 1 that Microsoft made available for download on its Technet site Thursday does not support upgrades from systems running its Windows XP operating system, according to a first look... More...

DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to... More...

There is still a little time left, but it doesn't look like Apple iPhone users will see Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems get Flash and Java up and running on Apple's handheld device by Christmas.... More...

Thin-client desktop vendor NComputing has landed another top executive from a big-name competitor in emerging markets, tapping Mark Bedford of Intel's Classmate netbook initiative to lead its worldwide marketing efforts. Beckford, an 11-year employee of... More...

Have we entered the era of the netbook? For those not paying attention a netbook is an ultraportable notebook. It's also an ultra-affordable notebook most often priced below $500. In recent months, the form factor... More...

A day after Patch Tuesday, Microsoft finds itself investigating reports of both a zero-day flaw affecting Internet Explorer 7 and a vulnerability in the WordPad Text Converter. Microsoft has not offered specifics as to when... More...

Asked recently to assess Microsoft's chances of ousting the search market leader, Dr. Qi Lu, the newly-named president of Microsoft's Online Services Group, did something that many Microsoft executives have typically avoided doing: He mentioned... More...

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on Wikipedia, which slowed access to the site to a crawl in the UK. On Saturday the IWF placed Wikipedia on its watch list, a group... More...

Sony Computer Entertainment will open up its Home online virtual environment to all PlayStation 3 users from Thursday, it said Wednesday. Home allows users to create their own avatars and participate in a real-time virtual... More...

When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being... More...

During the recession eight years ago, major retailers offered PCs anywhere from free to a few hundred dollars with typically three-year ISP commitments. Major ISPs like AOL, Prodigy or MSN subsidized the discounts, which helped... More...

Despite what is looking to be a rather dismal fourth quarter for the PC industry as a whole, one very bright spot has emerged. The mini-note PC, also called netbook, category grew at more than... More...

Today AMD announced that it will begin shipping its latest processor the "Shanghai" quad-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations and will talk about the new chip today in its annual Financial Analyst Day... More...

The digital Disneyland of the future -- where we freely work and play online -- may be at risk. Why? Because, some argue, broadband carriers can't support it. The Internet's "free ride" culture has led... More...

Nvidia has unveiled what it claims to be the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history, the Nvidia Quadro FX 5800. The Quadro FX 5800 graphics card offers up to 240 Cuda programmable parallel... More...

Attention movie aficionados: Bluckbuster is reportedly in the process of building a set-top box that can stream movies to your TV. Responding to Microsoft's Xbox 360's movie downloads and Roku player's Netflix rental services, Blockbuster... More...

Microsoft has announced a deal with Sun Microsystems to offer its MSN Toolbar when users download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), from today. Anyone downloading JRE will have the option to download the... More...

There are reports floating around the web today that ATI is planning to refresh its RV770 (4800 series to you and me) in an effort to add additional speed to its already highly successful card... More...