Features

• News feature: How Intel became famous

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 08:27

  Intel is a household name and one of the most recognisable brands in the world, but there was a time when neither the company nor its products were seen as very exciting.

• Five good laptop bargains to consider

  By Melanie Pinola | 08 May, 2012 11:34

  Laptop manufacturers are hard at work updating their laptop lines and making new models using Intel's latest Ivy Bridge processors. If you're in the market for a new laptop, however, it may make more sense for you to buy a slightly older laptop running second-generation Sandy Bridge and save a few hundred bucks. Here's how to decide which purchase is your best option.

• 10 tech research projects to watch

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2012 02:10

  Technology firms wowed us in 2011, delivering tablets, ultrathin laptops, innovative cloud services, and voice command digital assistants. Not so long ago, the technology underlying these products was nothing more than research and development projects. So, in an effort to peek into our not-so-distant tech future, here's a glimpse at ten promising projects percolating in tech research labs.

• Laptops of 2012: What to expect

  By Jason Cross | 01 December, 2011 01:59

  Tablets and smartphones are in, but don't count laptops out. Impressive new laptops planned for 2012 promise to be thinner, lighter, and faster, as well as to carry longer-lasting batteries.

• NEWS FOCUS: Everything you need to know about Ultrabooks

  By Melanie Pinola | 20 September, 2011 01:16

  The Ultrabook, a new class of ultraportable laptops defined by Intel, has been making waves lately as the next major step in laptop design.

• Cloud computing still a dream?

  By David Price | 04 March, 2011 01:58

  Today at CeBIT, representatives of some of the biggest names in IT came together for a discussion of cloud computing, which organisers have suggested could be the overriding theme of this year's show.

• Why Nokia is toast

  By Mike Elgan | 15 February, 2011 02:56

  It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when Finland was at the center of the cell phone universe. As cell phones overtook pagers, then smartphones overtook cell phones, Nokia was the hottest company in the industry.

• What's new in PC components

  By James Mulroy | 11 January, 2011 02:35

  The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from tiny flash drives that pack a lot of heat to the hand-held gaming console.

• Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?

  By Robert X. Cringely | 08 January, 2011 09:25

  Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forward progress only by hip-deep mounds of tablet PCs. Everyone appears to be tapping, swiping, and gesturing on some kind of sleek black touch-sensitive device, when they're not squinting at blurry 3D screens waiting for their turn with the polarized glasses.

• Networking gets faster, more media-savvy

  By Yardena Arar | 08 January, 2011 13:19

  Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.

• How desktop PCs got their groove back

  By Nate Ralph | 09 January, 2011 04:44

  Is the desktop PC dead? Far from it.

• Apple's switch to Sandy Bridge: Impact for gamers?

  By Keir Thomas | 11 December, 2010 09:28

  Rumors suggest that Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple's cozy relationship with Intel and its habit of adopting each new generation of Intel's processors, this would make a lot of sense.

• Why Intel's Infineon buy is a smart move

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 31 August, 2010 08:18

  Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world's largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion, and today it announced plans to buy Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions (WLS) division for $1.4 billion.

• Is augmented reality just a cheap gimmick?

  By Mike Elgan | 10 August, 2010 02:43

  Augmented reality, long a staple of science fiction, is here, there and everywhere. A search on Google News brings up nearly 700 recent stories about the technology and the companies that claim to offer it.

• Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps

  By John Mark V. Tuazon | 07 July, 2010 08:52

  Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to include tablets, mobile phones, and smart TVs, among others.