Microsoft's FreeStyle platform lets PC-makers ship a computer with a TV tuner, TV-recording software and a remote control.
The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
Not according to John Legere, Asia Pacific president of U.S.-based Dell Computer, which has introduced its PC-selling websites in 16 countries including China.
Apple is primarily a consumer-oriented company with little presence in the enterprise PC sector, where computer makers like Dell, H-P and Lenovo dominate the business notebook market.
In addition to being able to scan images onto the included SD memory card, the scanner accepts other popular memory cards (SD, MS, MS Pro, MMS, XD) and can also be connected directly to either a Mac or PC computer via its mini-USB port.
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Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) outlets starting June 10.
Since 1998, Oxford, Michigan-based PC Treasures has been the leading provider of award-winning OEM software bundles to computer system builders and resellers throughout North America.
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Hirai Yoshimitsu, deputy secretary-general of the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan, predicts that within a decade, half of Japan's e-commerce will be conducted over non-PC devices such as phones and public computer kiosks.
"The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC was designed for on-the-go users who need a slim, lightweight computer but can't afford to sacrifice true PC functionality, " said Scott Ledterman, director of mobile PC marketing at Samsung Enterprise Business Division.
Symantec's Hacker Protection utility, like Shields Up, scans your PC for open ports--electronic gateways into a computer--that hackers can exploit to access a system and files.
It was born in a different era, when free mobile apps proliferate through word of mouth, not crapware PC installations by computer makers and ads for shrink-wrapped software.
So the current downturn in the computer business, the worst in PC-dom's 18 year history, hits Singapore two ways -- in slumping export figures and in falling stock prices.
January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband.
Given the global PC boom, it's no surprise that computer-related companies are among the 1000's strong performers.
The PC-to-TV interface manages all content between the computer and the television.
The American computer manufacturer, the third-largest PC seller in Asia, will serve as Samsung's vehicle in its push to expand beyond the home market.
Eben Upton, the UK-based University of Cambridge professor and inventor behind the wallet-friendly PC, says he set out to create a computer so affordable that every child in Britain could have one.
Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.
The firm is also developing an operating system--"floating windows"--that will allow PC users to "see through" overlapping computer windows.
Included: a palmtop computer (touted as the smallest Windows-based PC), a DVD player and a personal digital assistant that is phone, fax, modem, pager and electronic organizer all in one.
That's helped the Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant grow its share of the worldwide PC market to 15.6% for the quarter ending June 30, from 14.8% during the year-ago period, according to tech market tracker Gartner.
The PC power supply is probably the most failure-prone item in a personal computer.
Standard and high-definition videos will be available for download from the Zune Marketplace online storefront, or "side-loaded" from a computer running the newly revamped Zune PC software.
But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
Many computer-industry executives hoped Windows 8 would spark a revival in their PC and tablet sales.
That business is tied to declines in PC shipments suffered by HP, Dell, Acer and other computer builders in calendar Q3 -- historically a productive back-to-school buying quarter.
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Lenovo's new C-Series AIOs reshape the affordable home computer into a smart, space-saving all-in-one PC, combining great multimedia features and performance that make these ideal PCs for family use and home entertainment.
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In fact, the performance boost from two cores will be even less obvious than on a PC, since it is easier to multi-task and run several jobs at once on a computer than a phone.
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In 1997, shortly after Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the struggling computer maker to lead a turnaround, PC kingpin Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were running Apple.
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