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IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a wireless laptop computer on Thursday that features a local area network (LAN) chip built directly on the computer's motherboard. The chip allows users to connect to the Internet and peripherals, such as printers, cell phones and other mobile devices, without using cables ...

Samsung Electronics, Inc., the world's largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects chip shortages to last another two years and pledged $5.2 billion (US$) to expand production ...

Taking direct aim at chief rival Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) on Tuesday rolled out its newest computer chip aimed at lower-cost computer systems, the Duron 750 megahertz processor ...

The United States is the most litigious country in the world. People sue McDonald's if their coffee is too hot. Prisoners sue if their color TVs are taken away. Doctors, lawyers, big corporations, mom-and-pop corner stores -- no one is immune to being slapped with a contentious lawsuit ...

As the next step toward a new Internet-based strategy, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) unveiled the test version of its latest "Office" software upgrade on Tuesday. The product is designed to serve as a bridge between the old Office productivity suite, which was designed for personal computers, and the company's new focus on Web-based technology ...

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) suffered a setback in its bid to produce ever-speedier microprocessors Monday when it announced it would halt production of its fastest version to date of the Pentium III chip ...

Obviously, the next president and vice president of the United States don't want to rock the boat that is speeding the so-called New Economy to deeper and richer waters. So the candidates are mouthing all the right words: "prosperity," "investment," "expansion," and "innovation." ...

Intel Corp. announced Wednesday that it will begin building chips for InfiniBand, the emerging technology that is expected to eventually replace the way servers, networks and storage systems interact ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday that Compaq Computer Corp. has been selected to build a supercomputer more powerful than the world's 21 existing supercomputers combined ...

New data from research firm Media Metrix shows that while the Net is still generally dominated by those with higher incomes, the number of U.S. users with low incomes is growing faster than any other group ...

A recent poll by the Pew Internet and American Life project showed that younger Internet users are less likely to think "cookies," the electronic tracking devices that marketers use to follow the movements of Internet users, intrude on their personal privacy ...

Chip titan Intel Corp. will unveil two new lines of microprocessors this week, including the Pentium 4, the first major upgrade of the Pentium chip since 1995 ...

A team of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists said Thursday they have come up with a microscopic switch that will speed development of cheap and super-efficient "molecular machines" that could eventually replace computers ...

With all the recent dot-com burnouts, a lot of young high-tech workers are wondering where they can find stable jobs. Many are shying away from startups. They want secure -- make that rock-solid -- positions on career paths that can be measured in generations rather than months ...

A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) says that people believe the Internet has become an important source of political information in the United States, but that its power to actually influence decisions made by elected officials is minimal ...

The glory days of the Internet are finished. Kaput. In terms of raw excitement -- the kind of pulse-racing thrill that comes with discovering something truly original, finding it has infinite possibilities and then actually making it work -- the Internet has cashed in its stock options and gone fishing ...

American Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) ran into yet another international dispute this weekend when authorities in the religiously conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia closed down one of its sites, clubs.yahoo.com ...

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the process of selecting a panel of scientists and experts from a major university to scrutinize "Carnivore," the FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance system. The DOJ plans to make the panel's report on the system available to the public ...

There may soon come a time when both small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses will be rooting for the U.S. government to stick its nose directly into the broadband industry, just as it did when the country was being wired for telephone service, and again when it broke up Ma Bell ...

A new poll by Harris Interactive reports that the number of Americans looking to the Internet for health care information has doubled to 98 million since 1998 ...