Ubuntu Linux was the only system left unscathed in a multi-platform hacking competition last week, but does that mean it is more secure?
It held out as long as possible, but a Windows Vista laptop fell to a determined bunch of hackers Friday evening at the Pwn to Own contest at CanSecWest.
Seagate Technology, the industry's largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.
Microsoft has denied Sony's claim that the current release of Vista supports neither Intel's Turbo Memory technology nor hybrid hard drives.
Sony plans to recall 340,000 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that shipped with notebook computers in the US, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Monday.
Chairman Michael Dell has denied that the way Dell constructs its PCs played a part in a spate of battery-related fires. He instead laid the blame entirely with the manufacturer of the battery cells, Sony.
Fighting for icon space on the desktop is so 2001. The new frontier on a virgin PC is the browser, and Internet companies like Google are jostling for space on the browsers of new PCs.
Sony's new software czar, Tim Schaaff, knows a little something about handling companies in turmoil.
With the next generation of Media Center PCs, you'll be able to have your TV and record it too.
Sony Electronics will begin selling two hard-drive music players this US fall which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like parallel universe.
Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology, has passed another landmark in its goal of becoming ubiquitous.
Digital media upstart DivXNetworks may yet see a Hollywood ending for its controversial video format.
Commentary: Intel should never have added Wi-Fi to its Centrino chipset. Now is not the time, and 802.11b is not the protocol.
Intel is quietly manufacturing a new Celeron processor that could determine the direction of its notebook processor line.
Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went online Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade.
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