Mobility

Intel Corp. unveiled a new technology on Monday that significantly reduces the time it takes for a notebook PC to power up or access programs, while improving battery life to boot.

After completing a US$1.75-billion purchase of IBM Corp.

Pushing an end-to-end package to enterprises, Nokia Corp. on Wednesday introduced the first three phones in a new series aimed specifically at business users.

Intel Corp. will introduce a PC in India later this year that can run off a car battery in a bid to serve the needs of the country's rural and farming communities, company executives said Thursday. The Community PC, as it is called, has been designed to provide Internet access to communities and villages in rural India, Amar Babu, Intel's director for sales and marketing in South Asia, told reporters Thursday at a press briefing at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Bangalore.

The parallels between Silicon Graphics Inc.

You can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to chips -- central processors, that is.Conventional desktops and servers need all the help they can get, given that the microprocessor industry seems to have hit a wall in chip performance. Researchers pushing the clock speeds of single-core chips are running into problems because of the amount of electricity required and heat generated.

A few days after Dell Inc. made plans with Verizon Communications Inc. to embed wireless broadband connections into its notebooks, Dell plans to do the same thing with Cingular Wireless LLC, Dell and Cingular announced.

Earlier this year, I expressed misgivings about the sale of IBM