Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware.

Oracle plans to stay in the hardware business following its planned US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, CEO Larry Ellison has said, adding more detail to earlier statements made by the company.

Performance comparisons of Via Technologies' Nano processor and Intel's Atom chip conducted by several hardware-enthusiast sites Tuesday confirmed what many industry observers have long suspected: the Taiwanese processor company has produced a chip that outperforms Intel's offering for low-cost computers.

Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, a move intended to make customization easier and shorten design cycles for system makers.

IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.

Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications.

Az SMC Networks (www.smc.com) LAN hardware és szélessávú csatlakozást biztosító eszközök gyártója új desktop SIP telefonnal bővíti IP telefonjainak kínálatát. A speciálisan a kis- és középvállalkozások számára fejlesztett telefon, a kiváló hangminőséget szolgáltató IP telefonra való váltás lehetőségét kínálja elérhető áron.

Motherboards that use Intel Corp.'s 3-series chipsets, codenamed Bearlake, seem to be everywhere at the Computex exhibition - signalling they will soon find their way to store shelves and hardware makers around the world.

Computer Science professor Josep Torrellas has a simple explanation for the hardware he developed to fix bugs that can plague a computer processor after it's been shipped by the manufacturer.

Looking to help users to more easily build low-cost storage options for Solaris-based systems from multiple vendors, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to donate pieces of its storage application software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.

With Intel Corp. processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.

Dell and Symantec on Wednesday rolled out a hardware/software package for controlling, archiving and securely managing Microsoft Exchange e-mail environments in small and midsize businesses.

Az idei WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) rendezvényen Bill Gates bejelentette, hogy cége történelmében most először kerül sor arra, hogy egyszerre jelenik meg mindhárom zászlóshajójuk új béta változata.

Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday will announce a suite of software tools for merging IT asset management functions ranging from hardware inventory to contract management.