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HP, the world’s top-selling PC maker, with access to Palm’s webOS mobile platform and Pre and Pixi smartphones, will now be able to “participate more aggressively in the highly profitable, $100 billion smartphone and connected mobile devices markets,” HP said in a statement July 1. However, the real draw for HP was Palm’s webOS mobile […]

Gartner analysts trimmed their worldwide IT spending forecast for 2010, saying they now expect spending increases to reach 3.9 percent, not the 5.3 percent predicted earlier this year. The European debt crisis is the primary culprit. The economic woes in Europe will have a negative impact on worldwide IT spending for the rest of the […]

(Reuters) – Japan’s Sony Corp said on Wednesday that about 535,000 units of its "Vaio" brand personal computers globally may be in danger of overheating and that it has provided software on its website to eliminate the problem. Sony said in a statement that there have been 39 overheating cases in total, all reported outside […]

Verizon Wireless will begin selling an Apple iPhone in January 2011, according to Bloomberg Television. Analysts, confirming the deal, expect it to be a win for Verizon and its pending LTE network – though believe the iPhone may bring to Verizon many of the challenges AT&T still struggles with. Verizon Wireless will begin selling an […]

Google June 29 said it is adding links that appear in Google Buzz to its Google Social Search service, a potential precursor to the Google Me social service the company is reported to be planning. Hot on the heels of reports that Google is building a social network to challenge Facebook, the company said June […]

It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected. Hard drive and storage device maker Seagate Technology announced June 29 that has made available the industry’s first 3TB desktop storage device, a new version of its popular FreeAgent GoFlex. Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB, priced at $249, […]

Could Facebook have cloud operating system designs of its own? Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google’s important Chrome Operating System initiative. Less clear is how this loss will impact Chrome OS, which is still on track to roll out on netbooks from HP, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Dell beginning this fall. […]

Topping the bill is the iPhone 4’s LCD display, at $28.50 – while the phone’s celebrated gyroscope runs Apple just $2.60. iSuppli has performed teardowns of each of Apple’s iPhones – the 3GS’ estimated BOM was $170.80; the 3G, in 2008, was estimated at $166.31; and the original iPhone in 2007 was said to run […]

The release of Kindle for Android adds to the number of devices capable of running Amazon.com’s e-reader software. The application requires Android OS 1.6 or higher, allowing it to run on the newest Android phones such as the Motorola Droid X, and includes the ability to adjust text size. Amazon.com recently enabled its Kindle app […]

Dell sold millions of computers with faulty components that caused failures, but employees at the company tried to conceal these problems from customers. Buyers of the machines included Wal-Mart, the University of Texas and Wells Fargo. That’s according to a report this week in the New York Times which gained access to recently unsealed documents […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – The printing division of Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ), the world’s largest PC firm, has been cutting down on the number of contract manufacturers it uses since the downturn hit in 2009, a senior executive said. Cost savings derived from simplifying its supply chain had gone into spending on research and expanding its […]

After the spinoff of its music-subscription streaming service Rhapsody as an independent company with Viacom, RealNetworks makes deeper job cuts in Seattle. The layoffs include a 25 percent reduction in its executive ranks and the reorganization seeks to streamline its technology and media services divisions. To read the original eWeek article, click here: RealNetworks Eliminates […]