Computers News

With another tough holiday season looming, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is ratcheting up a price war that could be good for shoppers but has competitors fearing the worst.

Dell Inc., one of the world's major personal computer makers, foresees a bright future in China, which is already the second largest market for the company, a Dell executive has said.

This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the UGR, has designed several algorithms that permit to look for the best route path within a particular environment.

Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said today.

Consumers looking to upgrade their cellphone have a new acronym to learn: HSPA. All three of Canada's big wireless providers are buzzing about the new technology - high speed packet access - which promises to make smartphones even more fun and powerful with blazing download speeds far faster than most home Internet connections.

Comment Much better than Vista, and the best Windows yet. That seems to be the consensus view on Windows 7, and after two and a half months with the final build, I more or less agree - despite the niggling voice that says behind the new taskbar it is not really so different from Windows Vista.

Measuring just 9.99mm in thickness, Dell Adamo XPS packs in 4GB of memory and relatively powerful fully-fledged dual-core microprocessor.

Personal computers are changing--and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find that laptops are missing a familiar component.

A sales representative talks to a customer as Lenovo laptops are displayed at a computer store in Hong Kong yesterday.

NEW YORK, USA: According to the latest market data from ABI Research , almost 35 million netbooks will be shipped by manufacturers in 2009; a forecast the firm first made in February.

LaCie has announced the availability of the Network Space 2 . At first glance it looks like just like the original Network Space with its minimalist glossy black enclosure, but LaCie has added some new features that may entice buyers.

Sometimes, just when you thought your computer is in a perfect condition, your windows explorer stops working, freezes up, and restarts and you get the error message "windows explorer has stopped working". Check out this guide for how to fix this problem.

An antitrust lawsuit filed Wednesday by the New York attorney general alleges a longstanding symbiotic relationship between Intel and Dell.

Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company spent nearly $1.1 million trying to influence lawmakers and regulators in the third quarter, a 50 percent increase from the July-September period last year, according to a recent disclosure statement.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.

Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.

Sixteen-year old Keegan Donahue and his sister, 15-year-old Rylee, are active Facebook users.

Some semiconductor stocks finished lower Tuesday after a Morgan Stanley analyst downgraded the sector and individual stocks including Intel Corp.

Scientists need the same sort of computer breakthrough that the spreadsheet brought to business users decades ago, says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.