Tom Krazit

It has been over a year since Henning Kagermann assumed the mantle as SAP AG's leader after Hasso Plattner, its founder and co-chief executive officer, stepped down. In that time, Kagermann has led the company through a tough business environment in 2003 to the solid first-quarter results SAP recently reported on the back of strong growth in sales of its enterprise resource planning software products in the U.S.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s bc1000 blade PCs, first announced last year, are now available in North America for customers looking to manage their employees' desktop PCs from a central location, HP said Monday.

A team of researchers at Xerox Corp. has discovered a way to print plastic transistors using a semiconductive ink, paving the way for flexible displays and low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, Xerox announced Friday.

Motion Computing Inc. unveiled the third generation of its slate Tablet PC product at an event in San Francisco last week, complete with a new processor from Intel Corp. and improved display and microphone technologies.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has decided to drop the next-generation UltraSparc V from its road map in favour of its recently disclosed Rock processor, signaling a shift in the strategic direction of the company's processor division.

The U.S. has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding China's policy of levying a value-added tax (VAT) on imports of semiconductors, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (OTR) announced Thursday.

Feel free to drop this notebook on the floor, or leave it out in the rain overnight. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) first ruggedized notebook and Tablet PC are able to withstand those types of abuse by workers in demanding environments and military personnel.

Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced two new desktop PCs for small business and enterprise customers Tuesday, and reorganized its commercial PC ranges in a move it claimed will simplify things for customers.