Posts filed under 'Popular'

HP Joins the Sub-$1000 PC Club

Hewlett-Packard today joined a handful of PC vendors shipping Intel Pentium PCs for less than $1000. Consumers shopping for desktops priced less than a grand can choose among offerings from Packard Bell, Monorail, AST and expected later this month Compaq.

An entry-level HP Vectra VE, with 120- ... [read more]

September 10th, 2007

IBM, Polywell, Sony MMX Systems Offer Good Values

Despite the mind-numbing hype of Intel’s MMX chip rollout, PCs built around
the technology are hot property. The newest arrivals, from IBM, Sony, and
Polywell, each have something to offer for different users. All three PCs come with
the Pentium MMX-200 processor, 32MB of ... [read more]

September 7th, 2007

IBM, Polywell, Sony MMX Systems Offer Good Values

Despite the mind-numbing hype of Intel’s MMX chip rollout, PCs built around
the technology are hot property. The newest arrivals, from IBM, Sony, and
Polywell, each have something to offer for different users. All three PCs come with
the Pentium MMX-200 processor, 32MB of ... [read more]

July 5th, 2007

HP Slashes Notebook Prices

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to cut prices on its Omnibook notebook computers by as much as 21 percent represents an effort to capture more of the corporate market, an HP executive said today.

The company announced the cuts on Monday, less than two weeks after Compaq reduced prices in its ... [read more]

Add comment July 4th, 2007

Service Outage, More Lawsuits for AOL

Ever have one of those days? America Online is having one of those weeks.

In the midst of scrambling to respond to a class-action suit filed by five California users this week, AOL experienced a system outage yesterday that shut out many users for about four hours. AOL traced the outage to a f ... [read more]

Add comment June 29th, 2007

Justice Department Lets Professor Teach Encryption Class

The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a professor for teaching
a cryptography class this semester while his lawsuit over the constitutionality of U.S. encryption
export restrictions continues.

Last month, a California judge ruled that University of Illinois professor Danie ... [read more]

Add comment June 29th, 2007

Web Fax Software for Intranets

Faxing on the Internet is nothing new, but Clarity Software hopes to shake up the market by letting its MagicFax software users fax through the Web at no cost.

MagicFax’s client-server technology, announced Monday, allows fax transmission from one server to another through the Internet. ... [read more]

Add comment June 28th, 2007

1996: Bloopers, Oddities, and Alien Encounters

Intel is 25, the PC is 15, and still, every end-of-year report looks like the previous one: full of lies, vapor, and weird and unexpected developments. Never a dull month.
Internet Flat Rates

The reason we charge $9.95 per month rather than $19.95 per month is we belie ... [read more]

Add comment June 27th, 2007