If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they'll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank.
Well, here's what we've all been waiting for. Apple put out a couple of announcements on Tuesday related to its desktop computers.
Last January, when Steve Jobs rechristened his company by ostentatiously excising the word "Computer" and leaving it as simply "Apple Inc.," he did so during the very same public event when he first showed off the iPhone.
Dell announced Thursday afternoon that a year-long investigation into its accounting practices has ended and the company plans to restate earnings back to 2003.
Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's No. 3 maker of personal computers, wants to take over a mid-tier PC manufacturer valued at about $800 million to bolster a barely profitable European arm.
Dell Inc is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, told Reuters.
Global semiconductor sales in the second quarter fell 2 percent from the previous quarter to $59.9 billion, as falling prices outweighed a 7 percent rise in total unit shipments, an industry group said Friday.
Dell Inc. introduced new notebook computers Tuesday, available in eight different colors with advanced features as it tries to grab a bigger slice of the consumer PC market.
Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.
August was the cruelest month for the computer company Michael Dell founded in his University of Texas dorm room 22 years ago. In close succession, Dell Inc. recalled 4.1 million laptop batteries b...
If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they'll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank.
Well, here's what we've all been waiting for. Apple put out a couple of announcements on Tuesday related to its desktop computers.
Last January, when Steve Jobs rechristened his company by ostentatiously excising the word "Computer" and leaving it as simply "Apple Inc.," he did so during the very same public event when he first showed off the iPhone.
Dell announced Thursday afternoon that a year-long investigation into its accounting practices has ended and the company plans to restate earnings back to 2003.
Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's No. 3 maker of personal computers, wants to take over a mid-tier PC manufacturer valued at about $800 million to bolster a barely profitable European arm.
Dell Inc is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, told Reuters.
Global semiconductor sales in the second quarter fell 2 percent from the previous quarter to $59.9 billion, as falling prices outweighed a 7 percent rise in total unit shipments, an industry group said Friday.
Dell Inc. introduced new notebook computers Tuesday, available in eight different colors with advanced features as it tries to grab a bigger slice of the consumer PC market.
Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.
August was the cruelest month for the computer company Michael Dell founded in his University of Texas dorm room 22 years ago. In close succession, Dell Inc. recalled 4.1 million laptop batteries b...
AMD is going after Intel in court, but it has already struck where it really hurts. After 20 years of unequivocal Intel supremacy, the market for x86 microprocessors has finally become - and for th...
When Lenovo announced early last year that it would buy IBM's personal computer business, the company's shares surged.
When Dell announced plans last month to buy Alienware, a maker of high-end PCs for serious gamers, the deal made big news despite its small size.
Apple Computer is turning 30 but its meteoric rise in the music business makes it look more like it's 17.
Looking to boost its standing in the eyes of enthusiast gamers, Dell has announced plans to purchase boutique PC maker Alienware.
It is clear Apple had a banner quarter for sales, but will its earnings also top Wall Street's already high expectations?
At the same time Apple is shifting to Intel microprocessors, Intel is planning a new generation of chips and technologies designed to make notebook computers smaller and less power hungry, and home computers that will emphasize music, video, games and photos.
More than 1 million Windows users bought Mac computers for the first time this year, according to a recent report.
More and more computer hackers are lifting passwords from home PCs and emptying online brokerage accounts, a business news magazine is reporting.
Advanced Micro Devices has been chipping away at Intel's lead in a key market and beating it to the punch with several new technological advances, but before AMD can take on the behemoth that is Intel, it'll have to do a lot more, industry analsyts said.
If you're willing to forgo extras, you can snap up a brand-new PC for as little as 300 bucks.
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Big computer companies are starting to realize what their boutique competitors have known for years. If you want to boost profits in the PC marketplace, target gamers.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the growing low end of the PC market, where new full-featured desktops can be had for less than $800. It's a market that's resonating with consumers who don't need the latest and greatest technology to e-mail relatives, print digital photographs, or compile music CDs.
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Ted Waitt, the founder and chairman and CEO of Gateway, is sick and tired of the PC business. I can't say I blame him. Consolidation, commoditization, razor-thin margins, persistent price wars, rel...
At Dell they call it, simply, "the Model."
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Less than 24 hours after Hewlett-Packard announced that it plans to merge with Compaq, the government announced that it was taking a new approach to the Microsoft antitrust action. There is a direc...
It seemed like deja vu all over again. Reverting to its Perils of Pauline mode, Apple Computer late last September fessed up that sales of its glossy, curvaceous personal computers were running off...
If machines can have souls, then maybe this is karma: Odds are that before the year is over, Dell Computer will dethrone Compaq Computer as the world's largest maker of PCs. It is a fitting turn of...
Leave it to Apple to list "power and sex" among the many attributes of the sleek new PowerBook G4 notebook computer. But guess what? Apple's 5.3-pound, one-inch-thick, titanium-clad, wide-screen po...
The stench--at least In Wall Street's opinion--from the fast-decaying personal computer industry is so pungent it calls to mind the old Monty Python skit about the pathetically moribund parrot and ...
Once upon a time, there was a place known as "the Personal Computer Industry." In that land many valiant companies vied to win the hearts of maidens and men with hardware. In the halcyon but distan...
Back in the late 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was in her prime, the perfect present for an upwardly mobile Brit was an Amstrad. A what? That was the clunky, whirring desktop computer produced by A...
Once upon a time, personal computers were deaf and nearly dumb. They didn't respond to voices--a good thing, since we were always cursing their limitations. And they could barely muster a feeble be...
Steve Jobs, the personal-computer industry's chief aesthetic officer, is in his element. Here in the boardroom at Apple Computer's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, he's the only person seated. Recl...
Late in August, 1,225 businessmen and women, ranging from information technology pros to buttoned-up CEOs, journeyed to Austin, Texas, like pilgrims flocking to Mecca. They filled half a dozen down...
The Internet changes everything. We've heard that phrase so often in the past couple of years that it has ceased to have any shock value. Of course the Internet changes everything. Why else are Web...
After years of boring beige boxes, desktop PCs are starting to look interesting. Manufacturers are breaking out of the routine of making machines that will offend no one and now want to make produc...
It's a wet morning in old Shanghai, and Dell salesman Peter Chan is selling hard. As the Yangtze River flows by the Bund district a few floors below, Chan is getting into a flow of his own. His sub...
Just a week before the board of directors ousted him as CEO of Compaq Computer, Eckhard Pfeiffer was feted at a University of Houston gala to celebrate the endowment of a new chair in his name. A p...
In late April, Andy Grove sat down for breakfast with this writer at New York's St. Regis Hotel. Now Intel's chairman--but no longer CEO--Grove spends much of his time thinking strategy. Needless t...
This past Christmas, I decided to end our family's tradition of technology hand-me-downs. Before that, when I upgraded my home PC, my son would get the old one. But now that he's a teenager, I deci...
For Intel chairman Andy Grove, coming to China is like waking from a bad dream. Elsewhere his company is plagued by slackening sales growth in the superfast personal computer microprocessors that a...
There's a funny thing happening in the personal computer business. The leading players are making all kinds of moves to improve profits--and the initiatives have surprisingly little to do with sell...
Eight months ago, when we last checked in on Michael Dell ("Michael Dell Turns the PC World Inside Out," Sept. 8, 1997), he was 32 years old and worth $4.3 billion. Today he's 33 years old and wort...
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Setting up an office at home once involved buying furniture, plugging in a telephone, buying a calculator and typewriter, and making sure you had plenty of filing cabinets. You'll still need the fu...
Perhaps it's not your idea of a dream vacation, but handheld digital gadgets are making it easier to keep up on your work as you climb a mountain in Colorado or stroll the Nantucket shoreline. Toda...
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Compaq, the world's leading PC maker, has a slight identity crisis. The company ships more personal computers than anyone--but others, especially Dell, are catching up. Dell's 58% growth rate in U....
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The big news out of the Comdex computer show was that Sony was entering the home PC market. But overlooked in the announcement was just how cozy Sony is becoming with microprocessor power Intel.
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Richard Watts, the low-key Brit who oversees Hewlett-Packard's personal computer businesses, smiles imperceptibly and issues a polite warning to competitors: "Our goal is not to turn the industry o...
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IT'S A WAR you've got to love -- if you're a spreadsheet demon, an electronic scribe, or a Dungeons & Dragons nut. Price slashing in the personal computer business -- already brutal -- turned downr...
THE COMPACT DISK was one of the great success stories of the 1980s, revolutionizing the recorded-music business in less than five years. Now something similar is happening in the personal computer ...
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STEP BACK in time to 1984 -- an eon ago in the personal computer industry. Steve Jobs, then 29, was chairman of Apple Computer and still a good friend of John Sculley, his hand-picked CEO. That yea...
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