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Compaq introduces 64MB iPaq handheld
News The expansion pack allows people to use two PC Cards simultaneously and will be available in mid-April for roughly $199. The iPaq runs on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. The company also announced the release of a dual PC Card expansion...
[March 12, 2001, 12:21]
Malware: Do you know your enemy?
News The debate highlights an ongoing disconnect in an industry charged with fighting malicious software (malware) that can reap all sorts of havoc on people's PC. In one example, EarthLink's Spyware Blocker program notes several different kinds of...
[February 4, 2005, 11:30]
Google unveils desktop search
News Rumoured for months, Google's unveiling of desktop search trumps rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online in the race to integrate Web navigation with PC search and stay on the cutting edge of search technology in people's minds.
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
As the Mac turns 20, has the PC caught up?
Talkback Commodore 64 v Spectrum, Amiga v ST .and now PC v MAC. The PC is like a Ford, the MAC is likely a Merc. It's a dull debate, it just makes people uptight for no good reason. Some people prefer Fords, some people prefer Mercs.
[February 13, 2004, 10:29]
Exclusive: CallNet's email for the masses
News Email in Britain will no longer be tied to a PC with next month's launch of MailTV, a television-based online service "for the masses" from the company that launched CallNet. Riseley questions whether people who are not using email or other...
[November 12, 1999, 11:00]
Communicator (2) - never use a PC again
News For a lot of people, the need for a PC will be gone straight away. I've been using one of these and now I only ever turn on my PC for making [Microsoft] PowerPoint presentations and backing up my Communicator data.
[August 13, 1996, 16:27]
Dell looks back at 25 years of the PC
News The man who founded the world's largest PC company thinks the best is still to come after a quarter-century of the IBM PC. Apple may have captured the attention of early computer hobbyists with its first products, but IBM's PC made the business...
[August 7, 2006, 15:15]
Microsoft pushes pay-as-you-go computing
News That's basically the idea behind FlexGo, Microsoft's latest attempt to make PC ownership more accessible to people in emerging markets. Under the idea, which Microsoft is introducing this week, people would be able to get a PC for their home with a...
[May 22, 2006, 16:25]
Microsoft may disable upgraded PCs
News Microsoft's solution -- called Windows Product Activation, or WPA -- will stop people installing a single copy of Windows XP on more than one PC. The engine is part of Microsoft's plan to tie each copy of Windows XP to one specific PC.
[March 2, 2001, 22:00]
So much for an upgrade: Compaq's iPAQ crashes
News The vast majority of people who downloaded the upgrade installed it and installed it successfully," said John Brandewie, product manager for the iPaq Pocket PC. The upgrade, a new version of the iPaq's read-only memory (ROM), offers relatively...
[January 26, 2001, 10:42]
Techie comedy draws flak and some fans
Talkback Plenty of my friends, family and workmates also found it hilarious, although most of us are more in the Apple camp than the PC camp and we all know that PC people are a tad on the serious side, so I suspect the people that didn't find it funny...
[February 7, 2006, 8:25]
Microsoft's XP: Hardware changes a turnoff
News The company's new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate unexpectedly, rendering the software useless. The process "locks" the software to the user's specific PC...
[June 27, 2001, 12:40]
Bill Gates fighting spam flood
Talkback Making the maintenance of PC's so easy has led to many non-techie people having access to the Web. From PC's to Servers, Tablets, PDA's, Smartphones, Gaming Consoles, Home Entertainment Systems, Portable Video Players, and for the future, TV On...
[November 24, 2004, 13:26]
$100 laptop project is 'fundamentally flawed'
Talkback Right now those poor children in developing countries really aren't looking forward to refurbished desktop PC's; most of them can't or aren't allowed to go to school but have to work to provide and survive instead, or either don't get to use that...
[June 23, 2006, 9:20]
AMD beats Intel in January sales
News PC Data's study shows that systems based on AMD's K6 processor family accounted for 43.9 percent of unit sales in January, with Intel-based systems accounting for 40.3 percent of sales. Within the past year, all of the major PC manufacturers have...
[February 26, 1999, 14:54]
Microsoft's desktop search tool arrives
News Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC. Desktop files can be cumbersome for people to navigate using the search features in current operating systems, and all...
[December 14, 2004, 7:45]
The HP 'people's notebook' runs Linux
News The authorities have subsidised the cost of the portable, along with a desktop PC made by a Thai firm. None of the large US-based PC makers -- HP, IBM and Dell -- are known to sell consumer desktops or notebook with the Linux OS pre-installed.
[May 12, 2003, 8:40]
Techs bullish about China market
News The PC penetration rate is below 5 percent. Legend, the largest local PC manufacturer, commands 26 percent of the market and is inching into mobile phones and the export market. The popularity of the Internet will continue to fuel PC sales as well.
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Education and schools is so important in this budget Brown has decided pc's play no part in education, homework and a computer literate nation. Apart from staff saving National insurance, tax and VAT through buying a pc through their gross salary...
[March 23, 2006, 10:59]
Google's Android paves way for mobile supremacy
News Many would argue Apple's iPhone was the first mobile computing device to allow a web page to look exactly as it does on a PC's browser. But it's one of many companies vying for eyeballs on the PC browser.
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
