The Compaq Presario CQ5320F is a bare bones PC for people who want nettop prices but not the nettop limitations.

The Dell XPS 8000 (SX8000-1479UWH) is a good quad-core performer, though it's a little light in 3D performance. It's nice, but do competitors priced above and below outshine it?

The latest version of TweetDeck is out, and although it's a minor update it also introduces some useful changes worth noting.

On Monday, the 747-8 Freighter took off for its first flight. The passenger version of the iconic plane is about a year behind the cargo model.

A former Intel executive pleads guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud by providing confidential information in the Galleon Group insider-trading case.

Ex-Microsoft VP Dick Brass joins the chorus of naysayers who claim that Microsoft drags its feet in bringing innovative products to market.

HP on Feb. 8 introduced a new version of its Web-based records management package, TRIM [Total Records Information Management] 7, that enables enterprises to manage all of their Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment -- regardless of the source ...

Google is preparing to unveil a new social networking component for Gmail, according to reports published Monday. Could such a feature succeed?

U-turn on 'blanket blocking' Open Source code repository SourceForge.net has pulled a U-turn on a widely unpopular decision to ban users from accessing its website from countries under US trade restrictions.?What is your recession sales strategy?

A researcher finds that Web applications could open their users to new types of data breaches.

For some time, Apple has given the Designated Family Tech Support Personnel among us a small reprieve with its "Find out how" selection of tutorial videos. While...

'Full disclosure' yields results Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.?Web threat...

Open source browser says support for outdated operating system has been a hindrance, but promises users of older Mac versions will have time before they need to worry about an upgrade.

Stocks tried to stabilize on Monday, but only the chip sector succeeded.

Apple indicates that it's not against cutting prices for the iPad if initial sales are less than stellar.

On Monday, Boeing's 747-8 Freighter took off from Everett, Washington's Paine Field, its first flight, and the first for the new 747 program.

James Bottomley has announced this year's Linux Storage and Filesystems Summit, which will be held just prior to LinuxCon in Boston on August 8 and 9. It will be held in conjunction with the Virtual Memory (VM) summit, so there will be three tracks (storage, filesystem...

If e-books are to successfully replace paper, it won't happen at Amazon's $9.99 e-book pricing. Thank Steve Jobs for opening the door to higher prices.

By Carmi Levy, Betanews Like many nighthawks across the continent, I found myself glued to more than one screen...all right, three. Plus my BlackBerry...as I watched this morning's launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. I observed the spectacle with a curious mixture o...

nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will provide instant translation of foreign languages. "The company has already created an ...

The TechServe aliance industry group said that the addition of 12,900 IT jobs in the U.S. is "better than incremental" and a sign that corporate demand for such workers is finally growing again.

Thanks to Google Books, InfoWorld's entire print run is now available to peruse. Take a trip down memory lane with these standout issues from 1984 – 1985.

IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.

Leo Apotheker is out as the enterprise software giant looks to shore up its lines of business. Analysts take a look at the impact.

Replace battery warnings correct, says Redmond Microsoft says that extensive testing and conversations with OEMs indicate that Windows 7 is handling notebook batteries exactly as intended - despite user claims that upgrades to the new OS have caused significant degradat...

...but can you overclock it?

Want to take control of your Nokia N900 games collection with a real controller? Now you can thanks to a recent mod.

IBM launched a set of new Power7 systems that deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems, the company said. - NEW YORK -- IBM launched a set of...

Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were not disclosed. SOA refers to a systems design approach that eschews monolithic appl...

A start-up employee in Indiana telecommutes to work in California by using a robot body stationed at his office. Meet the Texas Robot from Willow Garage.

I wrote an article in the February issue of PopSci about visual cortex neuroscientists who are figuring out how to read our thoughts....

MikeChino writes "As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store an...

It may be two years late, but Intels “Tukwila” Itanium processor offers twice the number of cores as the current “Montecito” version, significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intels high-end Xeon server chip and greater virtualizatio...

The software maker says that an error message warning users that their batteries may need replacing appears to be working as intended, despite some complaints.

This could one day replace silicon to give us... LUDICROUS SPEED! IBM - Hardware - Transistor - Graphene - Components

News Analysis; Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone. - Although t...

SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call...

Apple's iPad has piqued public interest — but not convinced many folks to buy one, according to a new study. But do the study's numbers really add up?

The software giant shows it's not standing pat after acquiring the Oakland, Calif.-based provider of service-oriented architecture management applications.

The owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which offers a "quadruple bypass burger," is suing the owner of the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Florida. Both businesses are "heart-attack/medical-themed," with "sexy nurse waitresses." Both serve obscenely large stacke...

Some Windows 7 users say their PCs started to freeze or randomly display the infamous "Blue screen of death" after applying a January update Microsoft billed as a stability and reliability fix.

Oracle announced Monday it is buying SOA management vendor AmberPoint.

A "miniature mode," a fish-eye lens simulator, and a setting that lets you control the camera by winking are among the new tricks offered in Canon's 2010 PowerShot line.

"Nvidia Outside" Graphics processing unit - Hardware - Notebooks and Laptops - Nvidia - Dell

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Intel today unveiled its delayed itanium processor -- taking some of the spotlight away from IBM's simultaneous unveiling of new Power 7 chips.

The theft of $378,000 from the town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is raising questions about the responsibility of banks to protect customer accounts from online criminals.

An anonymous reader writes "According to 4chan's owner and administrator 'moot,' Verizon has explicitly blocked all traffic on their network from boards.4chan.org, where all of 4chan's boards are located. Moot explains that only traffic to and from port 80 is being drop...

iPad customers will purchase their 3G wireless service direct from Apple, with no contract required. This is a great idea that needs to spread.

Networking giant rolls out Overlay Transport Virtualization system to enable virtual datacenter migrations, while improving load balancing and disaster-recovery operations.