John G. Spooner

Lenovo is setting up shop with Best Buy. The PC maker has struck a deal to allow Best Buy For Business, which are business-oriented annexes inside 135 Best Buy stores, to offer customers the ability to order from its entire Lenovo U.S. PC product line. Lenovo is aiming to continue expanding its scope with small […]

Apple Computer is offering to help manage corporate Macs. The computer maker on April 11 rolled out Remote Desktop Control 3, which includes provisions for installing several types of software, tracking hardware assets and health and even providing remote assistance to end users for IT departments who aim to streamline the administration of Mac fleets. […]

Microsofts Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them, according to a new report from Gartner. Whereas todays mainstream processors and hard drives offer plenty of performance and capacity to keep up with the new OS—now scheduled to arrive […]

Apple is opening some Windows. The computer maker has begun offering software that will allow its latest Macs to run Microsofts Windows XP, in addition to the Apple Mac OS X. Apple on April 5 began offering a public beta of Boot Camp, software that allows Intel-processor Macs—which now include the iMac and Mac Mini […]

Apple Computers Boot Camp software might help the company gain some new recruits from the business world. The Mac maker on April 5 made available a beta version of Boot Camp, software that allows Intel-processor Macs—which now include the latest iMac and Mac Mini desktops and MacBook Pro notebook—to boot either Mac OS X or […]

BOSTON—The $100 laptop is coming together, its founder says, but without the famous crank. Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child, said in a keynote at LinuxWorld here that OLPC is preparing to deliver its first 5 million to 10 million machines late this year or early in 2007. The machines will come with […]

Notebooks equipped for wireless WANs are poised to make a slew of tasks easier, from skiers plotting their next runs to doctors managing patient care. The improvements will come from near-ubiquitous access to critical data provided by the first notebooks to embed WWAN hardware. WWANs have been around for years, but using them has been […]

Intel says it wants to put PCs into the hands of more people around the world. The chip maker on March 31 unveiled an initiative it says it is undertaking to help deliver PCs to people in developing nations, who might not be able to afford the types of desktops and notebooks that are popular […]

When it comes to notebooks, thin is in again. Gateway, which began taking orders on its new 3-pound E-100M notebook on March 30, is working to expand the so-called ultraportable category with the introduction of new features. Ultraportables generally weigh about 4 pounds or less and have 12-inch or smaller displays. But given their prices […]

NEW YORK—Notebooks equipped with wireless wide area networking are poised to make it easier for a slew of applications, from skiers plotting their next runs at a ski center in Whistler, British Columbia, to helping doctors manage patient care. Those improvements will come from near-ubiquitous access to critical data provided by the first notebooks to […]