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Apple warns of holiday earnings drop
Apple has a new iPhone, two new iPads and three new PCs as it heads into the holiday quarter, the biggest selling season of the year.
Windows 8 to bridge gap between PC, mobile devices
Microsoft launched a radical redesign of its world-dominating Windows operating system Thursday, introducing a touch-enabled interface that attempts ...
Microsoft enters hardware business with Surface
Microsoft will be releasing its own tablet computer for the first time when the new version of Windows comes out Friday, as the software company tries ...
Windows 8 event a subdued affair, theatrics absent
For a company that has launched products with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and Jay Leno — and has even paid to light up the Empire State Building in ...
Group of major CEOs urges tax hikes, spending cuts
CEOs from more than 80 major U.S. companies are pressing Congress to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting spending. The deficit and ...
Microsoft kicks off Windows 8, Surface in NYC
Microsoft kicked off a campaign for its newest operating system, Windows 8, and its Surface tablet computer at New York's Pier 57. Designed to run on ...
Windows 8: Make-or-break moment for Microsoft CEO
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't afford to be wrong about Windows 8. On Thursday in New York, Microsoft unveiled a dramatic overhaul of its ...
Holiday gadgets: Samsung launches Note II phone
Samsung Electronics Co. has been running ads touting its Galaxy S III phone as its "next big thing." Now it has something bigger. The S III released ...
Best Buy offers exclusive Windows 8 deals, demos
Confused by Windows 8? Best Buy hopes it can help. The consumer-electronics retailer is hoping to capitalize on the launch of Windows 8. It's trying ...
Nintendo trims red ink, lowers forecast for year
Nintendo Co. narrowed its losses in the fiscal first half, but the Japanese game maker lowered its sales and profit forecasts for the full year ahead ...
Samsung sees 10 percent growth in PC sales
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it expects 10 percent growth in PC sales by volume this year as it bets on new PCs that are hybrids of laptops ...
New iPad, including smaller model, plus new Macs
Apple introduced a smaller iPad, as expected, but also updated its full-sized one. It also unveiled new Mac computers, including a 13-inch version of ...
Holiday gadgets: New iPads, Macs unveiled
Apple unveiled a smaller iPad, updated its full-sized one and refreshed its line of Mac computers in time for the holiday shopping season.
Yahoo CEO starts reign with encouraging 3Q report
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer turned in an encouraging report card covering her first few months running the troubled Internet company. The third-quarter ...
Holiday gadgets: Windows, iPads and more this week
As the holiday-shopping season approaches, Microsoft and Apple have scheduled major events this week to unveil new gadgets and software. The Microsoft ...
Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers
The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for a ...
Google, Samsung to sell Chrome laptop for $249
Google is dangling a low-priced laptop computer in front of consumers as rivals Microsoft and Apple prepare to release their latest gadgets.
Google blames contractor for early release of data
Google became the latest company Thursday to release its financial results earlier than scheduled, after which its stock price dropped 9 percent ...
AOL wants to organize your email clutter with Alto
The Internet icon that brought email to the masses with its classic "You've got mail" slogan now wants to help people organize the flood of messages ...
Nokia losses pile up as sales plunge
Nokia Corp. reported Thursday that its third quarter net loss widened further to €969 million ($1.27 billion) with a 19 percent plunge in revenue, as ...
Analysts, PC industry cool on Windows 8
While Microsoft is touting next week's launch of Windows 8 as the savior of the computer industry, PC makers and analysts are increasingly skeptical ...
Microsoft becomes friend and foe to PC partners
With the launch of its Surface tablet computer, Microsoft is becoming a genuine "frenemy" — part friend, part enemy — to its longtime manufacturing ...
Intel sees weak 4Q, little Windows 8 bounce
Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, expects cold winds to blow this fall, as consumers shift their spending toward tablets and a weak global ...
Foxconn says underage interns found working
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn said Tuesday it found underage interns as young as 14 working at one of its factories in China. Foxconn Technology ...