PC and Components: News

Piper Jaffray analysts think that in the long run any cannibalising of Mac sales by iPads will pay off because by 2020 the market share of tablets will be great than PCs, and the iPad will have the biggest share.

With Dell’s acquisition of network security vendor, SonicWall finalised, Dell SonicWall vice-president, Richard Ting, has confirmed that the channel will maintain its sales position.

The Bluetooth functionality of the Flame cyberespionage malware could potentially be used to pinpoint the physical location of infected devices and allow local attackers to extract data if they get in close proximity to the victims, according to security researchers from antivirus vendors Symantec and Kaspersky Lab.

Google has asked European Union regulators to investigate alleged collusion between Nokia, Microsoft and so-called patent trolls.

Apple has won a battle over the standard for a smaller SIM card, use of which would leave more room for other components in future phone designs.

While some online services are stepping up their efforts to protect private user data from government requests, there is plenty room for improvement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday. It is time for all companies that hold private user data to make public commitments to defend their users against government overreach, the foundation said.

Following his claims that nobody wants a refrigerator-toaster, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reiterated his belief that the tablet and PC should never converge, and revealed that he does see the iPad replacing the PC in some cases.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has advised potential television buyers to wait for Apple’s upcoming HDTV.

Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it would kick off a Windows 8 upgrade program on Saturday, June 2, giving buyers of new Windows 7 PCs the chance to grab a copy of the not-yet-released operating system for $15.

In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday.

Rumours of a version of Office for Apple iPads get more and more specific, with the latest claiming that the software will launch Nov. 10.

A U.S. judge has ruled that the Java application programming interfaces used in Android are not protected by copyright, marking a defeat for Oracle in its high-stakes lawsuit against Google.

As expected, Microsoft today shipped Windows 8 Release Preview, the final sneak peek the company will offer the general public before the operating system goes on sale later this year.

Dell on Thursday announced Latitude business laptops with Intel's latest Core processors that can provide around 33 hours of battery life, but only when combined with attached battery packs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook this week again slammed rival Microsoft's Windows 8 and its promise to be an operating system for all devices, whether tablets, desktops, laptops or hybrids that combine elements of all.

Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A watchdog group has slammed Apple and its supplier Foxconn for failing to take corrective action on the plight of factory workers in China, saying the companies continue to abuse employees while providing poor working conditions.

With the introduction of three new reference designs, Freescale Semiconductor wants to cut the cost of wireless charging and offer the technology for tablets and power tools, the company said on Thursday.

There are three more nails in ACTA's coffin as three European Parliament committees on Thursday voted to reject the international anti-piracy agreement, ACTA.