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When “Good Enough” Just Isnt—ViewSonics VP2330wb

As prices of LCD monitors continue to drop, larger displays become more affordable for a larger audience. One of the most popular has been...

Fatter Flash Chips Offer PCs a Better Fit

IM Flash Technologies is boosting the capacity of its NAND flash memory chips, pushing the chips another step closer toward being able to take...

Second Symantec Report Criticizes Vista Code

Security researchers at Symantec have published the second of three reports calling out potential security issues in Microsofts next-generation Vista operating system, this time...

How AMDs Acquisition of ATI May Help Linux and Macs

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is acquiring ATI Technologies, one of the top two graphics processor makers, for around $5.4 billion. AMDs aim is to...

Laptop Lifted from Data Providers Office

Tack on another case in what seems to be an epidemic of laptop thefts and losses: Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch business information publisher, earlier...

Montecito Reviews Mixed

Intel finally has its long-awaited dual-core Itanium 2 chip on the market, and, as with everything else in the controversial processors history, the launch...

Power.org Expands Oversight of Architecture

Power.org, the community group announced by IBM in December 2004 to expand the reach of the Power architecture, is taking a larger role in...

AMD to Acquire ATI

Advanced Micro Devices will acquire graphics processor maker ATI Technologies in an effort to emerge as a more formidable supplier of chips for business...

Samsung Means Business with Its Q1 UMPC

Samsung Electronics has big plans for its tiny Q1 ultramobile PC. Despite a less than warm initial reception for the diminutive PC category by analysts—ultramobile...

AMD Eyes PC-on-a-Chip with ATI Buy

Advanced Micro Devices plan to acquire ATI Technologies, could ultimately boil down to providing a simpler approach to building basic business PCs. AMDs planned $5.4...