Mark Hachman

Symantec Corp. Monday acknowledged a problem with the activation feature included in many of its latest product releases, and posted a fix to solve the issue. In Symantec products that require activation, a bug in the activation procedure forced users to enter and reenter the activation codes required for the software to work each time […]

Digital-rights-management solutions could be present within smartphones in as a little as a years time, a senior executive at Philips said, one of a number of functions being added to mobile handsets. Wireless executives speaking at the Semico IMPACT conference in San Jose said their industry continues to face the constant pressures to increase the […]

Dell Computer has discovered a firmware bug that slows down the performance of its Axim X5 handheld, and has halted shipments of the PDA until it is fixed. The bug, discovered and tested by Axim enthusiasts, concerns the performance of the handheld when users upgraded it to Windows Mobile 2003, an incremental OS upgrade. The […]

The largest vendor of CD rewriteable drives, Hewlett-Packard Co., will phase out its entire retail CD+RW product line by the end of the year in favor of rewriteable DVDs. The news caught analysts by surprise, since the rewriteable CD market is still booming. But stronger competition in the rewriteable CD market is forcing HP out, […]

Microsoft has cleared the way for new types of “netbooks” and other mini-notebooks based on Nvidia’s Ion platform by certifying the graphic maker’s technology for Windows Vista. Read the rest of this article and more about Microsoft and the Nvidia Ion platform at PC Magazine here.

Intel and Yahoo unveiled a combination of the Intel Media Processor CE3100 (“Canmore”) and the Yahoo open widget-based platform for TV and an initiative to embed applications – and ads – directly on your HDTV. Dubbed the Widget Channel, Intel execs believe the technology is the key to bridging the Internet-TV gap, said Eric Kim, […]

Intel’s Nehalem Core i7 microprocessor is the main event at the IDF (Intel Developer Forum) Aug. 18-21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, but Intel’s Atom processors for the emerging category of low-cost and mobile PCs is still a star. Also expect to hear details at IDF about Intel’s plans for its SSD (solid […]

Intel has a draft specification of its Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) of USB 3.0 and will likely demonstrate the concept at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) Aug. 18-21 in San Francisco. Intel’s 0.9 draft was expected, but the 0.95 version of the specification won’t be seen until the fourth quarter, meaning USB 3.0 products […]

Intel announced four new motherboards Aug. 14 that will include Remote Wake capability, an improved form of the Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN technology now in use. Intel’s Remote Wake motherboards will allow a VOIP call to wake up the PC. Intel said the motherboards, which use either the G45 or G43 chip set, are the DG45FC, […]

Gateway will be 100 percent channel, ending online and telephone sales of its desktops and notebooks, the company tells PC Magazine. The company is expected to announce July 25 plans to move to an indirect channel, focusing exclusively on retailers, e-tailers and channel partners, said Lisa Emard, a Gateway spokesperson. “This change will dramatically simplify […]