Channel Insider Staff

Today’s notebooks are sleek, stylish and eminently portable. They allow your small business to take the company on the road in the space of a carry-on bag. Now, for the first time ever, notebook (laptop) sales have surpassed desktop sales, according to research firm iSuppli. In the third quarter of 2008, notebook PC shipments rose […]

Lenovo’s expansion ambitions are being put on hold as the personal computer and notebook manufacturer says it will not pursue an acquisition of Positivo Informatica, a Brazilian computer and software maker. For more than two weeks, Lenovo has been rumored to be pursuing an acquisition with another small PC manufacturer to bolster its competitive positioning […]

Citibank accountholders will have limited access to their funds today, as the financial firm works to repair an unspecified “computer glitch,” WCBS TV reports. According to the report, Citibank lost access to its account records in what sounds like a database or a backup corruption incident. The report was unclear of the root cause, but […]

The number of Web sites compromised to host malicious code to explore a new discovered Internet Explorer vulnerability continues to rise as Microsoft continues to work on a permanent fix. The vulnerability, discovered by Trend Micro, exploits a flaw in the widely used browser that enables malicious code—a Trojan or worm—to surreptitiously to download and […]

As the economy started unraveling over the summer, solution providers were confronted with the grave prospects of operating in a market in which credit would tighten, customers would stop spending and vendors would pull back on the channel.   What Channel Insider’s research during the market crash yielded was look at the technologies that would […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Clearwire Corp may build its high-speed WiMax wireless network more slowly than originally planned if credit markets do not improve by early 2010, Chief Executive Benjamin Wolff said on Monday. Clearwire, whose shares rose 15 percent in Monday’s trading, completed its venture deal with Sprint Nextel and other partners on Friday. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese electronics conglomerate Hitachi Ltd said it and U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp would jointly develop solid state drive (SSD) memory devices, which are seen as a promising alternative to hard disk drives. The move marks a strategic shift for Hitachi, the world’s third-largest hard drive maker, which until now has not made […]

LONDON/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Fresh signs of a downturn in global chip demand emerged on Friday, as STMicroelectronics cut its fourth-quarter outlook while industry sources said two leading Taiwan companies are looking to slash costs. Franco-Italian STMicroelectronics NV lowered its sales and earnings forecast for the current quarter, while sources said Taiwanese contract chip makers TSMC […]

Toshiba, a leading innovator in memory card technologies and solutions, is launching a new line of 16GB microSDHC memory cards that offer the largest capacity available in the market. The company is extending its range of memory card solutions by adding ultra fast read/write 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards to its line-up. Mass production of […]

Eight-character passwords for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents are no longer a reliable security protection, says Russian security software vendor ElcomSoft. In a press release issued this week, the vendor of password recovery tools says the security measures in the latest version of Adobe’s PDF software, Acrobat 9, is two-orders of magnitude easier to crack than […]

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s largest cell phone maker, Nokia, said on Tuesday its 264 million euro ($339.9 million) acquisition of British software firm Symbian was on track to be closed this year. Nokia said in June it would buy out other shareholders of UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian and make its software royalty-free to […]