Mobility

Users should soon see the best bargains in years for a new desktop thanks to falling prices on the two most expensive components in a PC.

Intel Corp. slashed prices on some desktop PC microprocessors by more than half on Thursday, raising the stakes against rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), which cut prices earlier this week.

The first bombshells were unleashed by AMD

Microsoft and its partners may not be singing the same tune if the Redmond giant goes ahead with plans to create its own-brand digital music player and services, an analyst says.

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AMD says its imminent purchase of Canadian graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. will enable it to create integrated products for the mobile computing and consumer electronics markets. From 2008 onwards, AMD plans to offer a new range of integrated processing and graphics chips for custom applications.

It was only six years ago that I decided to give my parents one of my old PCs and, since then, I

Imagine an IMAX-sized TV screen for your living-room that you could roll-up and down; wireless electronic wallpaper that changes colour, form and design with your mood; electronic newspapers that look and feel like real paper, thereby saving millions of trees from daily slaughter. Xerox Canada claims these are just some tantalizing possibilities that can materialize from the company's research into plastic organic electronics.