John G. Spooner

Toshiba is thinking big when it comes to little hard drives. The company, which has made a name for itself supplying miniature hard drives for notebooks and music players, on Thursday acquired Panasonic Shikoku Electronics HDD (hard disk drive) design center in Fremont, Calif. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Toshiba Corp. will turn […]

Lenovo, which last week completed its acquisition of IBMs Personal Computing Division, is now moving to establish its new product lines and marketing strategies around the world. Although Lenovo Group Ltd. is still poring over market research and finalizing many of its plans, one thing is for sure: The ThinkPad name will maintain its prime […]

Chip maker AMD made market-share gains against rival Intel during the first quarter of 2005, thanks to a refreshed product line. Advanced Micro Devices finished the quarter with a 16.9 percent share of the worlds PC processor market, as shown in figures made public by Mercury Research on Monday. Meanwhile, AMDs chief rival, Intel Corp., […]

Hewlett-Packard gave an early view of its major refresh of the StorageWorks line of corporate storage gear on Friday. Company executives previewed three new Hewlett-Packard Co. EVA (Enterprise Virtual Array) models, EVA 4000, EVA 6000 and EVA 8000, which can store up to 72 terabytes of data using varying numbers of 146GB disk drives at […]

These days, notebooks are hotter than desktops. But Intel has a plan to keep businesses interested in the bigger boxes. The chip maker, whose executives briefed financial analysts on Thursday afternoon, aims to improve its desktop and server platforms for businesses—and its financials to boot—by rolling out technologies ranging from dual-core processors and virtualization to […]

Lenovo Group Ltd. has established a new online outpost, with a look at things to come. The Chinese PC giant, which completed its acquisition of IBMs PC group earlier this week, has set up shop at Lenovo.com. The site, which replaces Lenovos previous presence at lenovogroup.com and taps much of the information previously available on […]

Sometimes two processor cores arent any better than one. Despite introducing Athlon 64 X2 desktop PC and Opteron server processors, with dual cores or two separate processors in the same package, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says it will continue to tout single-core processors for certain applications. For one, the company plans to continue offering single-core […]

Microsoft Corp. is encouraging PC owners to make the move to 64-bit software with a cut-price upgrade offer for its Windows XP Professional Edition x64 operating system, which came out last week. But theres a catch. Those who take advantage of the $12 upgrade and move from the 32-bit version of Windows XP Professional that […]