According to a new report, Dell's Ophelia mini-computer could be on the market as soon as July. There's no word on price or specifications, but Dell is keen to market the product towards businesses. More...

A screenshot from an unspecified build of Windows 8.1 has revealed some minor changes, including a renaming of 'Computer' to 'This PC', and a removal of the Libraries feature in favor of folders More...

iSuppli is predicting that netbook shipments will completely die off by 2015, while shipments this year will fall 72% to just 3.97m. The rise in popularity of tablets is understandably to blame. More...

Microsoft is handing out $100 vouchers for all purchases of PCs over $699 until February 19th; unfortunately the deal excludes the Surface range, and the voucher can't be used for Surface products More...

Occasionally it's interesting to look back on early computer designs, so here we have some photos (courtesy of Designboom) of early concepts for Apple computers, laptops and even tablets. More...

A classic Apple I computer, Apple's first production PC built by Steve Wozniak's hands in 1976, has sold for a record breaking $630,000 to an anonymous internet bidder at a recent auction More...

Microsoft has turned against a partner they've had since the mid-1980s in Callison Architecture, due to poor quality work on one of their main data centers. This left thousands of machines at risk. More...

Wakoopa, self-described as the "Last.fm of software", is to shut down at the end of the month,. Users will be able to download their data before it is gone forever. More...

Neowin discovers a classic computer from the late 1980s, operating still as a daily piece of hardware at a silver mine somewhere in the world. More...

AMD has announced a price reduction today on a number of its 7000-series graphics cards, with its flagship 7970 now undercutting the NVIDIA GTX 680. More...

A survey conducted by Google has found that 9 in 10 users have no idea what the CTRL + F shortcut does, nor that such functionality existed. More...

It's yet another initiative to build low power, portable, and affordable computers for educational purposes, especially in the developing world. Previous attempts have not seen widespread success, such as the One Laptop Per Child initiative.... More...

The Windows Club is reporting that Microsoft has launched a new service entitled The Collection. This website has been designed to help users choose which type of Windows powered computer to purchase, from netbooks to... More...

For a long time people have contemplated how powerful the human brain really is. This question might now have been answered in part, with a new technology linking brain power to computers. According to the... More...

Everyone fondly remembers their first computer experiences. For me, it was the Timex Sinclair 2068. Programming in BASIC was helped by macros on the keyboard: Press the letter “G” on the keyboard and the “GOTO”... More...

Nokia showed off its latest piece of hardware to the market today, the Nokia N97. Nokia calls this smartphone an advanced mobile computer, with 32GB of memory, supporting up to a maximum of 48GB... More...

Obama is the new president we know that much but how much of his future plans in his administration could be affected by a computer attack that occurred in the Summer. It has been recently... More...

The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the... More...

Formula One is to have its first official computer game in more than two years next season following the capture of a new official licencing deal with British gaming company Codemasters, autosport.com can reveal. With... More...

Despite weak growth in the US, computer makers still posted another double-digit gain in shipments worldwide in the first quarter, according to two technology research firms that said the increase beat their forecasts. IDC and... More...

Ever wondered what computer viruses might look like? Probably not, but that hasn't stopped conceptual artist Alex Dragulescu creating a set of 3D images. He was given the programming code for the most common... More...

I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the... More...

Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar and his colleagues at Budapest's ELTE University have tested... More...

Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop thanks to research by IBM. Scientists at IBM have completed work that may make it possible to do away with the copper wires used to... More...

Looking to join other governments and expand surveillance laws, the LATimes is reporting that Germany wants to be your friend and give you a Trojan. A Trojan horse, that is. Quote - ... More...

Hey, two Wal-Mart stories in a row. No conspiracy here, I promise. Quote - Linux, the free operating system that's a perpetual underdog in the desktop market, is showing up in... More...

The digital pen from start-up LiveScribe, which can record both sound and handwritten notes, was supposed to make its debut in the fourth quarter, according to an announcement in May. However, the company now plans... More...

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels. The system located at the UCSD division of... More...

A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence goes ahead this evening when two professional poker players take on a computer in the world's first such man-machine challenge. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami will play... More...

Analysts at iSuppli have increased predictions for PC sales in 2007: global PC shipments will rise to 264 million units in 2007, up 11.2% from 239 million in 2006. The previous forecast envisioned 10.7 %... More...

The People's Liberation Army in China is building up its cyberwarfare capabilities according to a report from the Department of Defense. DoD has found that the PLA, the largest standing army in the world, has... More...

Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch that hit data flowing between All Nippon Airways Company Limited's main reservations host computer and intermediate computers... More...

Framingham-based Staples Incorporated is expanding its electronics waste recycling program by accepting used computers and monitors of any make that can now be dropped off for a $10 fee at any of the office products... More...

Forrester Research Incorporated has released a report entitled "The State of Retailing Online 2007", which is the tenth edition in cooperation with the National Retail Federation's Shop.org network of 600 online retailers. Excluding travel, Forrester... More...

US researchers James Frye, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan and Dharmendra S. Modha ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer. In other smaller... More...

Forget speech-recognition software: How about typing a letter just by thinking it? In a quiet corner of the Cebit trade show a small Austrian company is showing a "brain-computer interface," a technology that could one... More...

A computer glitch by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) data system caused a sudden drop of around 200 points. The problem with the computers began at around 1:50 PM yesterday during a heavy selling... More...

Researchers at the University of Indiana and Symantec are warning that about half of internet users with a home router are vulnerable to having the hardware hijacked. The researchers found that home router users are... More...

Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm. Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista include a feature that provides data volume encryption called BitLocker Drive... More...

Let's add to all the bizarre methods currently being researched for the future computer, shall we? A compound in Prussian Blue, named because it was used to dye uniforms for the Prussian army, can be... More...

Krut Computer Recorder allows you to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make instructional videos or record games. It could also be used... More...

Thanks to slimy for the heads-up on this one in Back Page News. From the blog of software engineer Miguel Carrasco comes a list that never fails to raise a smile - the "what... More...

As some of you may or may not know, Computer Gaming World is dead. November's issue of CGW is the last issue ever for the magazine, at least with that name. In December's issue, the... More...

While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now. In what appears to be an... More...

Dell founder and Chairman Michael Dell sees computer gaming becoming a $4 billion-per-year industry by 2010 as consumers hook up to high-speed Internet services to battle monsters online. Dell told the Austin Game Conference on... More...

'Value PCs' costing less than $500 made up more than half of new PC sales in June for the first time, according to data from Current Analysis. The analyst firm based its findings on sales... More...

Israeli company Compulab recently announced a computer that manages to cram a complete PDA into a device two-thirds the size of a credit card. The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as... More...

Dell announced yesterday it was to expand its current program to allow anyone to recycle their old machines, regardless of whether the owner was purchasing a new machine or not. This is a requirement that... More...

Apple has activated its previously announced free computer take-back program, offering to recycle old computers for US customers when they buy a new Mac. While it does not yet offer this service in its other... More...