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Hewlett-Packard, the world’s top PC maker, is launching a new line of inexpensive business laptops with fresh features targeting users at small and medium-size companies. The HP ProBook s-series, which starts shipping globally on Tuesday, is HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) new mainstream business notebook, following the release of its higher-end, lightweight EliteBook line last year. The […]

A new class of cheaper, smaller netbook computers might upset the IT establishment this year and potentially usher in new players in a hotly competitive market. The biggest change in the new pint-sized laptops is what they won’t have: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips or a Microsoft Windows PC operating system, which dominate netbooks today. The […]

Wireless chip supplier Qualcomm agreed to pay smaller rival Broadcom $891 million over four years to settle longstanding and increasingly bitter legal battles over technology patents. Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), which has lost several key battles in patent infringement cases with Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) in the last few years, said on Sunday it would […]

Microsoft still sees value in a potential partnership with Yahoo even though it is no longer wants to buy it, CEO Steve Ballmer said on Friday. “I have said many times that we no longer are interested in acquiring Yahoo, but we’d see the potential to create real value by partnering with Yahoo,” he said […]

Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom. A posting on a Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) Help page for GeoCities on Thursday said the service was no longer accepting new customers […]

The European Commission, taking a major step toward fining and imposing sanctions on Intel for violating antitrust law, has sent a draft decision ruling against the chipmaker to EU member states, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. That sets the stage for the Commission to deliver a formal decision within weeks, based […]

EMC, the top maker of corporate data storage equipment, reported a lower quarterly profit and warned that the weak economy will take a bite out of its margins this year. While CEO Joe Tucci said he expects global tech spending to pick up in the second half, EMC (NYSE: EMC) also indicated the slump in […]

Oracle is unlikely to face serious antitrust objections as it moves to enter the computer hardware market by buying Sun Microsystems for more than $7 billion, antitrust experts said. They did not anticipate that federal regulators would be troubled by the deal since Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) primarily focuses on database and business oriented software and […]

The U.S.’s F-35 joint strike fighter gets readied for an air show near Paris in June, 2007. Source: Reuters Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon’s costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper quoted current and former government officials familiar with the matter as […]

Kogi, a duo of Korean BBQ-inspired taco trucks in Los Angeles, has “Tweeted” its way to international stardom and is inspiring restaurateurs seeking new ways to tempt diners during a deep recession. Twitter, a free social networking site, is a vital ingredient in Kogi’s success. As Kogi’s example shows, the service that started as a […]

Oracle Corp (NASDAQ: ORCL) said on Monday it will buy Sun Microsystems Inc (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $9.50 a share, valuing the high-end computer server maker at more than $7 billion. The surprise announcement from the two companies comes after deal talks between IBM (IBM.N) and Sun fell apart earlier this month, and sources with knowledge […]

(L to R) Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde at court last month.Source: Reuters STOCKHOLM — Four men linked to The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest free file-sharing Web sites, were each jailed for a year on Friday for breaching copyright and ordered to pay 30 million Swedish crowns ($3.58 […]