John G. Spooner

One way that Lenovo Group, which recently acquired IBMs PC division, wants to attack the PC market is through closer collaboration with business customers. The company on Tuesday announced plans to establish a new Lenovo Innovation Center near its offices in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The center, Lenovo Group Ltd. says, will allow its customers […]

The arrival of a new generation of servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processor is beginning to reposition the newcomer chip for the mainstream. The chips prospects appear upbeat, analysts say, even though it will face stiff opposition from market leader Intel. The Opteron, which arrived a little over two years ago, had been […]

NEW YORK—Focusing on the small things presents big challenges for the emerging field of nanotechnology. While applications for the technology are wide open and venture capital dollars are readily available—many of the companies assembled at the NanoBusiness Conference 2005, a trade show held here wherein nanotechnologists are rubbing elbows with each other and Wall Street […]

The next wave of business computers will wash in next week, when chipmaker Intel introduces its latest chip set for desktop PCs. The silicon giant is expected to officially unveil its Intel 945X Express chip set and dual-core Pentium D chips on Thursday, May 26, ahead of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States. […]

Intel has a new management theory for the next generation of business desktops. The chip maker later this month will announce its latest desktop hardware bundle, which will be available with baked-in management software, for the first time, along with speedier networking and faster graphics. Intel Corp. also will pledge to offer it unaltered for […]

Tablet PC maker Motion Computing is maintaining its maniacal focus on vertical markets. But the tablet market continues to present a rocky road for the Austin, Texas, startup and its competitors. Motion Computing Inc., which this week rolled out its latest tablet, the 3.1-pound LE1600 tablet, continues to focus on health care, field force automation, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning a major refresh of its StorageWorks line of corporate storage gear. Company executives gave a preview recently of three new EVA (Enterprise Virtual Array) models—EVA4000, EVA6000 and EVA8000—which can store up to 72TB of data using varying numbers of 146GB disk drives at 10,000 rpm. The preview comes days before a […]

Companies running servers based on certain Intel Corp. chips could come under attack from the inside, due to a new type of software timing attack. A research paper released on Friday by Oxford University computer science student Colin Percival details a method by which an attacker could heist cryptography keys on servers running Intel processors […]

MPC Computers, which focuses on government and education buyers, has joined the smallest race in business computing. The PC maker on Monday launched a new 3.8-pound notebook that aims to compete with lightweight machines from the likes of Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Lenovo Group LTD. MPC Computers LLCs TransPort U1000, which weighs 3.8 pounds […]

Dell says it has no plans to get into the cellular phone business. But its still big on wireless. The Round Rock, Texas, company, which on Thursday reported its first-quarter earnings, described reports that it would begin selling cellular phone subscriptions in 2006 as inaccurate on Thursday afternoon. “We have no intentions or plans to […]