Michelle Maisto

Certain Hewlett-Packard lithium-ion notebook batteries are being recalled, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced, after two reports of overheated batteries resulting in fires that caused minor property damage, though no injuries.Roughly 70,000 of the batteries were sold at computer and electronics stores, hp.com and hpshopping.com from August 2007 through March 2008 for between […]

The Samsung Jack will be available from AT&T on May 19, expanding the BlackJack series that executives at AT&T have called the “No. 1 selling franchise in Windows Mobile history.”Jack does indeed feature Windows Mobile 6.1, and will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5, which is due out in the quickly approaching second half of […]

Gartner is reporting that the weakened global economy has caused more computing projects to be delayed than canceled, based on interviews conducted from late February through early March with 475 IT decision makers across nine countries.Gartner expects the area of IT hardware, including PCs, servers, storage and printing systems, to be hardest hit, with declines […]

Taiwan-based computer maker MSI announced it will be adding two new laptops to its X-Slim series in the second quarter of 2009, a 14-inch X-Slim X400 and a 15-inch X-Slim X600.Each very MacBook Air-like laptop is under an inch thick and features a 16:9 LED screen, full I/O ports and Blu-Ray support.The X400 comes with […]

In lieu of the traditional Steve Jobs keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has announced that a team of executives will deliver the address, which will kick off WWDC 2009 at 10 a.m. on June 8, at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. The group will be led by Philip Schiller, […]

By 2010 there will be more than 3.5 billion mobile phone subscribers, 1 billion personal computers and 2 billion televisions in use around the world, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an energy policy advisor to 28 member countries. As the numbers of these devices increase, so, too, does the demand for energy.Presenting a […]

Nearly 6 million mininotebooks, or netbooks, were shipped in the first quarter of 2009, raising their standing within the notebook PC market to almost 20 percent, market forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which DisplaySearch wrote may be attributed to […]

Is Microsoft planning to release a Zune smartphone for this June?In April, Microsoft’s John Starkweather, director of social marketing and mobile experiences, responded to reports that it was developing a touch-screen, multimedia phone, code-named “Pink,” with Verizon Wireless by saying:“Microsoft is not building a Zune-specific phone.”However, May 12 Tweets coming from a Microsoft Twitter account, […]

Intel is expected to be charged with anti-competitive behavior by the European Union sometime this week, and the chip giant could face an enormous fine for stifling competition in European computer markets, the Financial Times is reporting.Advanced Micro Devices brought up the case against Intel in 2000, alleging that Intel was trying to unfairly shut […]

Ahead of the release of its report “Worldwide PC Processor 1Q09 Vendor Shares,” researcher IDC has released information on PC processor unit shipments in the first calendar quarter of 2009, which showed sequential decline. “The market’s bottom is in sight,” IDC analyst Shane Rau wrote in the statement, commenting that while the market showed slightly […]

Dell is announcing colorful new Inspiron netbook, laptop and desktop updates.The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, released just this February, to compete against the likes of Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Asus, has been updated in the form of the Inspiron Mini 10v.With a starting price of $299, the Mini 10v features a larger keyboard-one that’s 92 […]

Verizon Wireless’ first netbook offering, the Hewlett-Packard Mini 1151NR, is expected to arrive in stores beginning May 17, according to the Boy Genius Report.Pricing for the netbook-which reportedly includes an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and a 2-in-1 memory card reader-is said to likely be $199 with a two-year contract, after a […]