Tom Krazit

Dell Inc. is shipping a long-awaited ROM update to its Windows Mobile 2003 Axim handhelds on CDs, a company spokesperson said Friday.

Before Intel Corp. opens its biannual developer conference in two weeks, it will announce Deerfield, the low-power version of its Itanium 2 chip, next Monday, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.

Lindows.com Inc. introduced an inexpensive computer for business customers Thursday that is designed to run limited applications on the company's Lindows OS operating system.

A new chip under development by IBM Corp. and the University of Texas at Austin might produce supercomputer-like performance reaching one trillion operations per second by the end of the decade, IBM said Thursday.

Amid the countdown to the launch of its highest-performing processor yet, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) quietly released three Duron chips for low-end desktops aimed at price-conscious buyers last week.

IBM Corp.'s struggling semiconductor business will lay off 600 workers and require employees to take a week of unpaid vacation, an IBM spokesperson said Monday.

A few months after the launch of the BlackBerry 7230 in Europe, Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) brought the device to the U.S. in partnership with T-Mobile USA Inc., the companies announced Monday.

IBM Corp. has fired back at The SCO Group Inc. with a lawsuit filed late Wednesday asserting that SCO is in violation of the license that governs contributions to the Linux operating system, and that SCO has infringed upon IBM patents, an IBM spokesman said Thursday.