Douglas F. Gray

The global semiconductor industry is set to begin recovering this quarter, driven by sales of PCs, mobile phones and other consumer products, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in its annual forecast, released Wednesday.

In what could be the most vocal objection to the proposed merger between IT giants Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Compaq Computer Corp., the family and trust of HP co-founder William Hewlett said Tuesday that they would vote against the merger if it is put to a vote before stockholders.

If you've ever wondered what books Amazon.com Inc. was recommending five years ago, what the first Web cam was focused on or what was on more than 10 billion other Web pages dating back to 1996, you're in luck.

NEC Computers Inc. will unveil its highest performance notebook to date on Monday, based on Intel Corp.'s 1GHz mobile processor.

Handspring Inc. unveiled a new line of products Monday that is designed to integrate phone capabilities and PDA (personal digital assistant) functionality.

Handspring Inc. unveiled a new line of products Monday that is designed to integrate phone capabilities and PDA (personal digital assistant) functionality.

Intel Corp. researchers have developed a new technology that the company hopes will let chips reach speeds of 20GHz in the second half of this decade, the company announced Monday.

To coincide with the Oct. 4 launch of Microsoft