Bryan Gardiner

PC-VIP, a new PC support company that will cater specifically to small and medium businesses, officially began offering its services here in San Francisco and 10 other cities across the country on April 2. The company, which claims to be the worlds first true fixed-cost computer support service targeting the SMB space, will offer flat […]

Analysts began speculating late last week that Apple, along with LG, may soon be releasing flash-based laptops later in the year. Today, news from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel, the company that currently supplies Apple with its processors, may lend some credence to that assertion. On Monday, the worlds leading producer of microprocessors announced it will […]

SAN FRANCISCO—At a press and analyst briefing Feb. 28 in San Francisco, AMD executives discussed the companys road map for the remaining year and beyond, including new information on the forthcoming “Barcelona” and delayed R600 graphics launch. In addition to the official release of AMDs first integrated ATI 690 chip set here Wednesday, execs on […]

On Jan. 8, Lenovo announced a new agreement with Best Buy to sell select ThinkPads and notebooks in store to small business customers. According to the two companies, the ThinkPad T60 widescreen and Lenovo 3000 N100 systems will be available for purchase at more than 300 “Best Buy For Business” retail outlets starting this month. […]

According to a recent entry on Lenovos “Inside the Box” blog, the reports earlier this month about a Vista/Thinkpad conflict are true: Lenovo admitted that some Vista-based computers manufactured either by IBM or by Lenovo may take an additional 10 to 20 seconds longer to boot than a similar Windows XP-based configurations. This problem, according […]

It was supposed to be unbreakable; a next-gen DRM solution. Yet a hacker named Muslix64 is now claiming he has cracked the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the standard that is currently used by companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, IBM, Toshiba, Microsoft, and Sony to protect their high-definition HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. On Wednesday, Muslix64 […]

Transferring Internet content from a PC to your cell phone or PDA is about to get a whole lot easier. On Thursday, at Ziff Davis Digital Life consumer electronics trade show in New York, the Bluetooth SIG—a group that develops and approves various wireless technologies for the specification—announced the release of a new version of […]