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US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers.

Judgment shifts odds towards digital consumer. In 2004, Ian Andrews purchased a Dell laptop computer for $1,700. About two-and-a-half years later, the computer began to malfunction, periodically shutting down unexpectedly.

Computer geeks over the weekend had a dorkgasm at the sight of a report hinting at an upcoming MacBook Pro equipped with Intel's latest mobile processor.

Acer Inc. , the worlda s second-largest personal-computer vendor, plans to boost sales of more- profitable servers this year as it takes on Hewlett-Packard Co.

Signing Sandeep Vij as its new CEO may turn out to be just what MIPS Technologies needed, as the world's number two processor IP company struggles to steal the spotlight back from ARM -- both in media attention and the industry's mindshare.

One-quarter of Russian software outlets sell bootleg Microsoft programs, the company charged Monday as it published the results of a survey intended to elbow authorities into taking more action.

The number of international patent filings dropped last year for the first time since 1978 as companies hit by the global economic downturn sought fewer new protections on their intellectual property, the U.N. said Monday.

Microsoft is responding to complaints from some Windows 7 users about a message that suggests their batteries are at risk of failure as they use their laptops.

Troubled carmaker Toyota has announced the problem attributed to brakes on its Prius model has now been fixed.

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Buying your next laptop computer or smartphone online could suddenly get a lot more expensive if a little-known U.S. Department of Transportation proposal to tighten rules around the shipment of small, battery-powered devices by air goes through, says an industry group opposing the move.

The results of last week's poll surprised me; at the time of this post, a full third of you plan to use the iPad to create graphics for computer animation, despite any limitations inherent in the software and capacity of the device.

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In the fast-moving world of mobile computing, small is all, and apps for the BlackBerrys, iPhones, Droids and other gadgets are the sultans of software.

Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer plans to launch its own e-reader and a tablet PC to rival Apple's iPad in the second half of this year.

The former Elk Point fire chief no longer faces a charge of possessing child pornography.

The benefits of a SSD are apparent to most of us with less power consumption, better performance, and quieter operation.

Money's tight but you still need to hop online, watch TV and make phone calls. All that adds up to some hefty bills.

A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits." Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that -- demonstrating a method that ...

Google Inc. has awarded a two-year, $1 million research grant aimed at slashing energy usage in large Internet data centers to a team of computer scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara , Rutgers University, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia.