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With royalty fees sucking up profits, who knows how long sites like Pandora Radio and Slacker will last.

On Wednesday, Intel and Yahoo announced a sweeping initiative to embed Internet-connected, software widget applications – and ads – directly on your HDTV. Several major CE manufacturers expressed support.

A new faux HD DVD player could be the latest hurdle in Sony's dream of world-wide Blu-ray dominance.

Intel announced Tuesday that the first quad-core notebook processor will be known as the Core 2 Extreme.

Intel's "Nehalem" will contain a technology called "turbo mode" that will dynamically reroute power to improve performance, an Intel executive said Tuesday.

CSR said Monday that it had improved the way its Bluetooth modules interact with Intel's processors to improve the battery life of Intel-based notebooks.

Wondering where Intel chief executive Paul Otellini is at the Intel Developer Forum? We were.

Archos on Tuesday announced three new devices that Archos is calling "Internet Media Tablets."

Intel announces four $100,000 prizes for developers willing to challenge established ways of thinking in the environment, healthcare, education, and economic development.

Intel plans to ship a 160-Gbyte 2.5-inch solid-state disc drive (SSD)in a month's time, company executives plan to announce at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday.

Antec said Tuesday that it is launching a series of standardized components for small channel vendors and system builders, with an eye toward true "whitebook" notebooks that could be built by just about anybody.

Imagine a scenario where a room interprets your face and gestures, and then translated your words into data. Sound far-fetched? Then how about just a TV remote control that senses who you are? Intel described these and more at its kickoff event for the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).

Cloud computing apps are for suckers. If there is an alternative that runs locally on your own machine, it will always be better.

In a rare blunder, the company leaked a Flash presentation describing its shrewdly updated smartphone to the Web.

After launching EliteBook workstations last week, HP decides to go small with two 12-inch EliteBooks for business travelers, including a refreshed version of the HP Compaq 2710 convertible tablet.

When just under 1,200 people attending a meeting can produce the largest spike in IPv6 traffic in the last year, you know that something is wrong.

The HyperTransport Consortium on Monday announced HyperTransport 3.1, a specification that pushes the interconnect technology to a theoretical 51.6 gigabytes per second.

Philips claimed victory this week after tests of its white spaces devices at a pre-season NFL game and Broadway show produced favorable results, though detractors quibbled with the device maker's assessment.

AMD's "spin zone" took place the Friday before IDF, complete with some massive smack talk. But when AMD executives were asked about a key strategy, they punted.

Increased innovation, a crackdown on piracy, and H-1B visas? Good. Taxes on tech companies, Net neutrality legislation, and our country's current patent system? Bad. Or so says Senator John McCain.

And we're back? Netflix shipping centers resumed normal shipments on Friday after a Tuesday technology problem took the DVD company's operations offline for several days, and Netflix said it will issue a 15 percent credit to all affected customers.

Tests in which Intel's G45 chipsets failed to render high-quality video accurately are generally tied to poor third-party software, although Intel management shares some blame, an Intel member said on Thursday.

Low power and high performance will dominate the tech world next week, as Intel's next-generation "Nehalem" Core i7 microprocessor headlines Intel's Developer Forum. But right on its heels will be the surprising success of the company's battery-saving "Atom" processor.

Through ties to your GPS and smartphone, the mobile advertising platform could soon explode.

Advanced Micro Devices said late Thursday that the company had launched four new "business class" processors.

Intel on Wednesday announced that a draft specification of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) of USB 3.0.

This fall, AMD's ATI division will attempt to convince users that visual realism, not a number printed on a box, should be the determining factor in purchasing a graphics card.

Facebook Beacon ruined Christmas and a group of its members are not going to let the social networking site forget it.