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Intel Corp's new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.

Aiming to boost traffic to its smartphone site, Yahoo Japan Corp. plans to make nearly all of the 150 or so services on its personal computer Web portal available as smartphone applications within the year.

Dell's financial decay worsened during its latest quarter as the company slashed its personal computer prices in response to the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets.

Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, people took pictures of the Tyrannosaurus Rex with film-based cameras that required them to drop their pics off at a Fotomat for processing.

In just two days, the way I do just about everything to do with work has changed.

Fans are a necessary evil when it comes to most computers, because they are the best way to get damaging heat away from a system.

Most stocks were trading lower Thursday after disappointing housing, jobs and manufacturing reports heightened concerns that the historic market gains this year have occurred despite questions about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery.

This new category of PC can be hard to pin down. To some, these are all-in-one desktops, similar to the Apple iMac , but with the added ability to either fold down flat or detach their screens.

Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google, together with NASA, has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

Intel's new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.

Dell founder Michael Dell, left, and Carl Icahn. Dell wants to take the world's third-largest PC maker private for $24.4-billion, but Icahn and major stakeholder Southeastern Asset Management dismiss that as too low.

We're all used to scrutiny. If you work you accept that you'll be monitored, evaluated and assimilated into the corporate mould.

You're away from the office when you get that sinking feeling. Maybe that file you need is locked on your desk PC in London while you're visiting Shanghai.

I still meet people who appear surprised that Apple devices remain largely untroubled by viruses and malware.

It was rumored and now it's real. HP has announced on Wednesday two newest additions to their convertible portable computer line, the SlateBook x2 and the Split x2.

They seemed absurdly cheap then, with price-to-earnings ratios in the low single digits.

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