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Article | 17/05/2007 New York says Dell defrauded PC buyers

The New York attorney general has filed a lawsuit charging that Dell used fraud and false advertising to increase profits on PC sales.

Article | 16/05/2007 Motorola hopes to cut losses with Razr2

Motorola announced the Razr2 mobile phone and five other mobile devices on Tuesday with hopes the products will turn around the company's slumping sal...

Article | 14/05/2007 AMD set to launch 'Phenom' desktop chip

AMD will make a quad-core chip for desktop PCs, replacing its venerable Athlon processor with the new "Phenom" design in an attempt to compete better ...

Article | 10/05/2007 Intel 'Santa Rosa' Centrino laptops hit shelves

Intel launched the "Santa Rosa" upgrade of its Centrino notebook platform on Wednesday, running on PCs from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, MSI and oth...

Article | 9/05/2007 Sun files new DRAM suit against Hynix

Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its promise to file a new version of its antitrust lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor, accusing the South Korean compa...

Article | 7/05/2007 Smaller Intel reaches for new chip markets

Intel's new generation of processors with 45-nanometer features will help it earn profits from rising demand for notebook PCs and to enter a nascent m...

Article | 2/05/2007 Dell hopes to earn good will with Linux PC

Dell may have won applause from customers Tuesday by announcing it will sell commercial PCs running the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, but if the exper...

Article | 30/04/2007 XO laptop is fun for child's play

The hardest thing about learning to use the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO notebook PC is finding the right way to twist its antenna ears an...

Article | 27/04/2007 OLPC raises hundred-dollar laptop price to US$175

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175, but were still confident the...

Article | 26/04/2007 PC vendors push automated management

In a bid to attract business users, improved IT-management capabilities will be a key element of Intel's launch of Weybridge vPro desktop PCs later th...

Article | 20/04/2007 AMD posts $611 million loss, slow chip sales

For the second straight quarter, AMD has posted a loss. This time it lost $US611 million in its chip-manufacturing business during the first quarter o...

Article | 20/04/2007 Lenovo cuts 5 percent of workforce

In a continuing search for profits, Lenovo Group said Thursday that it plans to lay off 1,400 workers, about 5 percent of its global workforce.

Article | 20/04/2007 Samsung executive pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing

An executive at Samsung has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he took part in a conspiracy to fix prices for memory chips bought by Dell, Hewlett...

Article | 18/04/2007 Intel profit rises despite flat chip sales

Intel has posted a profit of $US1.6 billion for the first quarter, a rise of 19 per cent over that quarter last year, thanks to reduced personnel cost...

Article | 13/04/2007 IDF - UMPC fans hope for new Intel platform

Business analysts at Intel's technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing more ex...