Channel Insider Staff

Western Digital, which makes desktop, mobile and high-capacity enterprise hard drives, is offering its second-generation WD S25 SAS drives and its latest WD RE SAS 3.5-inch drives for the traditional enterprise market. Shipping now, the 2.5-inch, 10,000 RPM, WD S25 with SAS 6 Gb/s interface hard drives offer IT professionals expanded storage with new 450 […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive. “From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James Choi, a marketing strategy and planning team director for LG Electronics, apparently told […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Jan. 17 in an e-mail to Apple employees that he’ll be taking another medical leave of absence to focus on his health. Jobs didn’t offer any details about his health, or how long he plans to be on his board-sanctioned leave, but he wrote that he’ll continue to act as […]

Companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year, consultancy Deloitte said on Tuesday supporting recent research from Gartner which sees the global market for Apple’s iPad, rising to 55 million devices this year from 19.5 million in 2010. "Although some commentators view tablets as underpowered media-consumption toys suitable only for consumers… in […]

U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer were each charged with one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization, prosecutors said. The […]

In more bad news for AT&T, a Jan. 13 study from ChangeWave is the latest to suggest that the original Apple iPhone provider may suffer a customer exodus once Verizon begins selling its own long-awaited iPhone Feb. 10. Days before Verizon’s big Jan. 11 announcement  — “We are pleased to introduce millions of wireless users […]

Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software may be halted by the U.S. Justice Department, which is reportedly preparing for a possible antitrust lawsuit to put the kibosh on the deal. ITA’s software helps airlines, search engines and online travel companies organize flight information, including flight times, availability and prices. Sources familiar with the matter […]

Watson, IBM’s latest DeepQA supercomputer, defeated its two human challengers during a demonstration round of Jeopardy on Jan. 13. The supercomputer will face former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a two-game, men-versus-machine tournament to be aired in February. However, the Jeopardy match-up was not the "culmination" of four years of work by […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) posted better-than expected revenue and margins for the fourth quarter and gave a rosy outlook for early 2011, defying worries about the chipmaker’s minor role in the booming smartphone and tablet computer market. Shares in the world’s largest chipmaker, whose net profit surged 48 percent year […]

(Reuters) – Nvidia shares soared 15 percent on Wednesday, their biggest one-day rise in over two years, as investors bet the company’s new chips would win it a major stake in future tablets and smartphones. The rise in Nvidia’s stock brought its gain since the company’s debut last week of its new Tegra 2 dual-core […]

Jan 12 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Samsung Electronics Co (KS:005930) will jointly develop new semiconductor technology to be used in smartphones and other new gadgets, the companies said on Wednesday. International Business Machines Corp and Samsung plan to research new chip materials and improvements in process technology, to develop smaller and more energy efficient […]

(Reuters) – After waiting three-and-a-half years Verizon Wireless customers will finally get their hands on Apple Inc’s iPhone next month. The top U.S. wireless operator ended months of speculation and anticipation from impatient consumers on Tuesday by announcing that it would begin selling a version of the iPhone on February 10 at the same prices […]