HP officials said they will offer customers refunds or replacements for PCs that contain a flawed Intel chipset that is tied to the chip giants “Sandy Bridge” platform. – Hewlett-Packard officials are halting production of PCs containing a flawed
chipset from Intel and offering replacements or refunds to consumers who
already have bought such systems.
HPs
decision follows Intels announcement Jan. 31 that a design flaw in a
supporting chipset tied to its “Sandy B…
Nvidia announced its “Project Denver” at CES, an effort to combine ARM-designed CPUs with Nvidia GPUs on the same chip for use in servers, PCs and supercomputers. – Graphics
chip maker Nvidia is planning to start building CPUs based on designs from ARM
Holdings for everything from tablet PCs to data center servers.
Nvidia,
which announced its “Project Denver” Jan. 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas, is the latest
manufacturer looking to tak…
Although the focus is on consumer brands, a number of companies that straddle the enterprise/consumer product fence will show products that can be used for home and/or the office. – Which electronics show is really the largest in the world: the annual CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany in March, or the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January?
Both are certifiably huge. But CeBIT, which takes over up to 28
hangar-like exhibit halls in Hannover –…
The Lenovo IdeaPad Y460p and Y560p laptops and IdeaCentre K330 desktop are multimedia-savvy PCs with Intel processors, all slated for early 2011 arrivals. – Lenovo has introduced three new Idea PCs with Intel technology that will begin shipping in early 2011.
Hello, youth market! The IdeaPad Y460p and IdeaPad Y560p pair
high-performance processors from the Second Generation Intel Core
family, up to the Core i7 with multimedia features. Perfect…
When it comes time to evaluate the important computer product news of 2010, the vast majority of annual roundups will point to tablets as some of the hottest products of the year. After all, when Apple released its iPad earlier this year, the tablet craze officially began. And an increasing number of computer makers decided that the time was ripe to expand their own product lines with new tablet designs. That’s precisely why, as of this writing, Apple is joined by Samsung, Dell and several others in the tablet space, all vying to grab a hefty share of this rapidly growing market. But due to the sheer number of tablets that are both available and on the way, it’s much easier now for consumers and enterprise customers to see what’s missing in that space. As popular as tablets are and as successful as Apple’s iPad might be, the devices still fall short in some important ways. The manufacturers must consider fixing those problems in 2011. Not only will it make customers happier, but it will also improve those companies’ chances of selling more products. – …
Invincea recently moved Internet Explorer into a virtual environment. Now, it moves Adobe Reader, to protect enterprises from PDF exploits. – Invincea is taking the idea of sandboxing one step
further, by moving all PDF files into a virtual appliance.
Invincea Document Protection, introduced Nov. 22, runs as a virtual machine on
the users desktop. Whenever a PDF file is opened, Invincea Document Protection
takes control away from the …
Lenovo will launch tablet PCs in the United States starting in 2011, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. – Lenovo will launch a tablet PC in the U.S.
market starting in 2011, according to a Nov. 12 report in The Wall Street Journal. That would mark yet another manufacturer
entering the burgeoning tablet market, currently dominated by Apples iPad.
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing offered few
details about the…
The maps in your pocket PC or your mobile phone or even your car PC will guide you at every turn that you make and take you seamlessly to your destination. So, to ensure that you are moving in the right direction during a long road journey, you must get an upgraded version of the GPS software or a map in your pocket PC.
AMD showed off its upcoming “Llano” APU, which offers integrated compute and graphics capabilities onto the same piece of silicon. Llano will ap-pear in systems in 2011. – Advanced Micro Devices officials gave the industry a glimpse of their upcoming “Llano” processor, part of the companys Fusion initiative that integrates computing and graphics capabilities onto a single piece of silicon.
AMD on Oct. 19 gave a demonstration of what the APU (Accelerated Processing Un…
Tablet sales are rising as netbook shipments fall, but tablets high prices may keep netbooks in the game. Apples iPad starts at $500 generally the cap for netbooks. – The Apple iPad and industry promises of several competing tablet PCs
are slowing sales of netbooks, but theyve hardly crushed the market
for the lightweight PCs, according to ABI Research. The firm now
expects 2010 to close with shipments of 11 million-plus tablets and 43
million netbook units. …
Microsoft identified the most prevalent pieces of botnet malware on the Web – as well as the country many botnet-controlled computers call home. – Most botnet-infected computers reside in the United
States, according to figures from Microsoft.
In Version 9 of its Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft reported finding
2.2 million computers in the United States
under the
control of botnets during the second quarter of the year. That figu…
A new report published by Microsoft shows that more than 2.2 million PCs running Windows in the United States have been recruited into botnets. The figure refers to the first six months of 2010, with the statistics gathered from the 600 million machines that are enrolled in Microsoft’s various update services or use its Essentials and Defender security packages, reports the BBC.
Two new models in Gateway’s ZX One Series of all-in-one desktops come with Blu-ray drives, Intel processors and pretty details, making them a fit for dorm rooms and savvy family spaces. – Gateway is updating its ZX One line of all-in-one consumer desktops with the Sept. 29 introduction of the ZX4951 and
ZX6951. Pitching the touch-screen PCs as perfect for living rooms, kitchen
counters and dorm rooms, Gateway has made an effort to update the systems
inside and out.
At 21.5 an…
Early versions of Stuxnet abused Windows’ AutoRun feature in a bid to infect industrial control systems, security company Symantec reveals. – More details about the Stuxnet worm trickled out Sept. 24 as security researchers continue to peel back the layers of the complex malware.
According to Symantec researcher Liam O Murchu, early versions of Stuxnet were targeting industrial control systems without the help of a vulnerability at a…
Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Asus, Lenovo, Acer and other top PC manufacturers are gearing up for a busy fall, between consumers’ back-to-school tech refresh and businesses beginning to spend again on IT infrastructure. On the consumer side of the equation, manufacturers are hoping that consumers will gravitate toward laptops and desktops with 3D and top-quality audio. For the more business-minded, many new (and sort-of-new) laptops offer a combination of powerful processors and sleek-and-slim form-factors. All these manufacturers used a recent New York City event to show off their current PCs. Among the more unique devices on display: HP’s laptop hardware designed to minimize heat, by placing key components under the keyboard and installing larger side-vents; the uniquely curved design of Samsung’s NF210; and Asus’ Eee PC Lamborghini VX6. Other companies chose to show off their standard-issue, "workhorse" designs& but with the promise that new and interesting technology is in the pipeline. – …
Invincea is looking to protect enterprise endpoints from Web-based malware by moving Internet Explorer into a virtual environment. – A security company is going to market with a plan to
bring virtualization to the browser to bolster security against Web-based
threats.
Arguing that firewalls and antivirus software fail to adequately protect
enterprises, Invincea’s strategy is to move Internet Explorer quot;into a
virtual …
Ericsson introduced a 21M bps mobile broadband module for notebooks and netbooks at the 2010 IDF conference. Ericsson also demonstrated a 7.2M bps module for tablets. – Ericsson has unveiled what the company calls the world’s first mobile broadband module at 21M bps (megabits per second), the HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) F5521gw.
Twice the size of a quarter, the Ericsson F5521gw supports download speeds of up to 21 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.76M bps. Ericsson introduce…
Gartner analysts predict that the boffo semiconductor sales of the first half of the year will not continue in the second half, as they fall in line with softening demand for desktops and notebooks. – The worldwide semiconductor market is poised to have a strong year in 2010,
but there are some dark clouds on the horizon, according to Gartner’s market
research.
Gartner analysts in a Sept. 1 report said they expect global
semiconductor revenue to hit $300 billion, a 31.5 percent jump over
rec…
Security firm Trusteer uncovered a 100,000-strong botnet swiping banking credentials, credit card information and other data from Windows users. – Researchers at Trusteer have uncovered a large botnet of 100,000 computers
built using a variant of the Zeus malware.
Almost all of the infected bots are in the United
Kingdom, according to Trusteer. After
infecting the computers with Zeus 2, the botnet pilfered all kinds of user
data, ranging …
