Mark Hachman

Content protection company Macrovision plans to announce on Tuesday that it has developed a way to eliminate the vast majority of DVD copying. The

The WiMAX Forum said Monday that its interoperability tests for the new standard will take place in mid-2005, consistent with its original timetable. The

Motherboard maker MSI plans to make a splash at the upcoming CES show with X2 Media, a joint venture that plans an all-in-one portable video player and a

Reports that IBM might spin off or sell its PC business have refocused attention on the evolving role of contract manufacturers and Asian ODMs, those

ATI Technologies Inc. announced five new graphics chips on Wednesday, refreshing its X800 graphics line and adding a new option, the X850. ATI

Toshiba said Monday that four major Hollywood studios have signed on to release titles in the HD (high-definition) DVD format, a decision that should have

Seagate Technology began shipping its first 400-Gbyte drive, the Barracuda 7200.8, this week. The 7,200-RPM drives are available in 200-GB, 250-GB, 300-GB

Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it will bring products using Blu-Ray next-generation optical technology to market in late 2005. In January, both HP and

Intel Corp. is refreshing its 64-bit Itanium 2 processor line with six new chips based on the Madison core. The new processors represent the last

Intel Corp.'s share of the CPU market fell slightly during the third quarter as smaller rivals nipped at the leading chip maker's heels. Intel's market

Intel has decided not to bring to market a 4-GHz single-core Pentium 4 after all, following a July decision to push the chip out to the first quarter of

At least one vendor is selling OEM copies of Microsoft's new Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system online, possibly exploiting a loophole