John G. Spooner

These days, engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. have their counterparts at chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on speed dial. Sun, whose turnaround plan bets heavily AMD Opteron-based processor servers, has gained the ear of the chipmaker over the last two years and thus is helping shape the future of the Opteron, which charged on the […]

Apple Computer Inc. may have tipped its hand on Wednesday, by revealing its new line of Power Mac G5s based on the dual-core PowerPC processor. The notoriously secretive computer makers new lineup includes single chip models running at 2GHz and 2.3GHz and a dual-processor machine with 2.5GHz chips. Apple also updated its PowerBook portable line. […]

Apple Inc. introduced a raft of new technologies at an invitation-only news event Wednesday, at the debut of its long-awaited Power Mac G5 desktop line, which features dual-core processors, along with new PowerBook notebooks and its latest image-editing software. While the photographic production applications may have represented the most intriguing new tools from the Cupertino, […]

Lenovo Group LTD is pitching a new low-price ThinkCentre desktop in an effort to gain more of a following in the small business market. The PC maker, created in May when Chinas Lenovo closed its multi-billion-dollar purchase of IBMs PC division, launched the ThinkCentre E Series, which starts at $379, on Tuesday. The desktop shows […]

NEW YORK—Sleek hardware, such as Apple Computer Inc.s new iMac G5 and video iPod, Hewlett-Packard Co.s Digital Entertainment Centers and slim Pavilion 7210n, and even Microsoft Corp.s Xbox 360—a hit among young and old who crowded the Microsoft booth on the first afternoon of the DigitalLife show, a three-day consumer technology and entertainment exposition here—all […]

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty to computer-memory price fixing and to pay a $300 million fine in a settlement with the United States Department of Justice. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged that Samsung, the worlds largest DRAM (dynamic RAM) maker, Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Infineon Technologies AG and Micron Technology […]

Thin is in at Apple Computer Inc. The company has unveiled a slimmer iMac G5, designed to be used in the home as an entertainment hub, to go with its thinner line of iPod music players, introduced this fall. Apple, which rolled out the new all-in-one desktop along with a video-playing iPod on Wednesday, has […]

Microsoft Corp. is about to give Media Center PCs a new point of view. The Redmond, Wash., software giant is expected to unveil on Friday an update for its Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system that will boost the computers abilities to tap online entertainment such as movies, access e-mail and even let users […]

Intel Corp. says two brains are better than one when it comes to crunching numbers and serving up Web pages. At an event Monday in San Francisco, the chip maker unveiled its first dual-core Xeon server chip, code-named Paxville DP, months ahead of its original schedule, and officials said a dual-core version of its Xeon […]

Thats all, folks. Hewlett-Packard Co. is discounting its HP-brand iPods in an effort to sell off its remaining inventory of the portable music players. The computer giant, which in late July said it would discontinue selling its HP-branded version of the Apple Computer Inc. music player, has lowered the prices on several of its remaining […]