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Article | 20/02/2008 Vista SP1 updates send some PCs into endless reboot

Updates that Microsoft began feeding Windows Vista users last week to prep PCs for next month's release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) have crippled some mac...

Article | 20/02/2008 Toshiba abandons HD DVD

Toshiba will discontinue its HD DVD products, it said Tuesday, handing victory to rival high definition disc format Blu-ray Disc.

Article | 19/02/2008 Sony Ericsson E400 mobile broadband ExpressCards

Sony Ericsson used the GSM Mobile World Conference to launch two new mobile broadband ExpressCards. The EC400 and EC400g simply slide into a laptop's ...

Article | 15/02/2008 Lean, green, open source machine

A French company is selling a desktop computer to those people for whom size really does matter.

Article | 18/02/2008 Samsung starts shipping SATA II flash drives to Dell

Samsung Electronics has begun shipping a flash memory-based solid state disk drive (SSD) that offers better performance than many of the flash drives ...

Article | 18/02/2008 Sony hits greenhouse gas emission cuts target early

Sony is beating its own target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and will begin promoting a sustainable lifestyle to consumers through its product...

Article | 18/02/2008 Report: Toshiba halts HD DVD production, mulling future

Toshiba has halted production of HD DVD players and recorders and is close to making a decision on whether to throw in the towel on the high-definitio...

Article | 15/02/2008 Can Sun turn downloads into dollars?

Sun Microsystems described a growth strategy on Wednesday that depends in large part on giving away software in the hope that customers will like it e...

Article | 13/02/2008 NSF preparing for the demise of Moore's Law

In anticipation of Moore's Law becoming irrelevant in the next 10 to 20 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) wants funding for research that c...

Article | 11/02/2008 MacBook Air: good looks, poor battery life

Ultraportable laptops have a history of requiring compromises when it comes to performance. Lately, the PC World Test Center has seen some improvement...

Article | 11/02/2008 Microsoft nixes Vista SP1 for IT pros until later this month

Although Microsoft confirmed Monday that beta testers of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) can now download the final bits of the update, it will not...

Article | 7/02/2008 Performance results mixed with Vista Service Pack 1

Microsoft's newly released Service Pack 1 may solve some of the performance glitches that have annoyed Windows Vista users and discouraged others from...

Article | 5/02/2008 Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents

Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "...

Article | 12/02/2008 Intel develops processor similar to MacBook Air chip

Intel has shrunk another processor that will be incorporated into new ultrathin laptops, possibly creating competition for the processor it developed ...

Article | 11/02/2008 Dell moves most AMD consumer PCs offline to retail

Dell has scaled back the range of consumer PCs with processors from Advanced Micro Devices that it sells on its Web site, focussing almost exclusively...

Article | 11/02/2008 TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 'debacle'

A revolt among IT professionals and developers is brewing over Microsoft's decision to hold the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Vist...

Article | 11/02/2008 Microsoft buys 3D company for Virtual Earth

Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics experience in Microsoft's Virtual Ea...

Article | 5/02/2008 ISSCC - Intel lifts veil on Silverthorne processor

Intel will offer a first look at technical details of its low-power Silverthorne processor during a presentation at the International Solid State Circ...

Article | 11/02/2008 Keep Windows XP until 2009, analysts tell Microsoft

Microsoft should keep Windows XP available until at least 2009, not end the majority of sales on June 30 as currently planned, said analysts at Gartne...

Article | 8/02/2008 Microsoft to end digital downloads for Vista upgrades

Microsoft is revising a program that allows Windows Vista customers to upgrade from a basic version of its OS to one of the premium editions.