Mark Hachman

Hewlett-Packard Co. will aggressively enforce digital-rights-management schemes on many of its products beginning in 2004, including the companys first digital televisions. In HPs forthcoming digital hub, the Digital Entertainment Center, and in “some” other devices, HP will enforce the “broadcast flag” provision of digital content, preventing its customers from recording content that has been protected […]

LAS VEGAS—Toshiba Ltd. offered reporters a sneak peek at its 0.8-inch hard drive Wednesday night, but said it would keep several key details under wraps until the product is tuned and launched. The 0.8-inch drive is slightly smaller than the 1-inch Microdrives, or the stripped-down “storage elements” that Cornice manufactures. Toshiba will ship two versions: […]

LAS VEGAS—By next year, your TV as well as your PC may contain the tagline “Intel Inside”. Intel Corp. President Paul Otellini described the companys expansion into consumer electronics products in a keynote speech here at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday. The chipmaker wont actually manufacture the products, but the technologies such as liquid […]

LAS VEGAS—In a wide-ranging discussion here, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell said it is “very unlikely” that the industry will meet its 2006 deadline to phase out analog television broadcasts in favor of DTV. Powell spoke to Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro in a public discussion Friday morning here at the CES show […]

LAS VEGAS—Dell Computer Corp. announced three new technology partners Thursday morning, a tip-off that the company plans to branch out into other consumer directions. Dell named imaging giant Fuji Xerox, photography maven Kodak and electronics powerhouse Samsung as the new partners. In a keynote address here at the Consumer Electronics Show, founder and CEO Michael […]

This week Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to announce two new laptops that incorporate a USB “garage” that holds a Secure Digital card, as well as the first laptop to use the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. Mike Hockey, a spokesman for HPs mobile division, said HP plans to announce both the HP Pavilion ZX5000 and the Compaq […]

Intel Corp. announced Monday that it has begun shipping a low-cost Celeron version of its Pentium M processor, designed to bring extended battery life to the value notebook market. The Celeron M, as the chip is now known, will ship at speeds just a grade slower than the Santa Clara, Calif., companys current Pentium M […]

Better things come in smaller packages, as Transmeta Corp. unveiled two new Crusoe chips that are available in packages half the size of their forefathers. The chips are part of Transmetas aging Crusoe family, not the Efficeon family the chipmaker announced last year. However, Transmeta looked toward the future by eliminating the SDRAM interface from […]

Researcher IDC issued a cheery forecast for the worldwide DRAM (dynamic RAM) market, predicting that revenues will rise for the next two years. In a report issued Wednesday, IDC, based in Framingham, Mass., said that DRAM revenues will grow both in 2004 and 2005, then start to decline as overproduction leads to declining prices. In […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. on Monday shipped its first small-form-factor, Serial Attached SCSI disk drives to Hewlett-Packard Co. The SAS drives look to usher in a new generation of simpler, lower-cost storage systems. Fujitsus new products represent the intersection of two distinct storage trends: the shrinking form factor of enterprise storage drives, and […]