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HP head Mark Hurd on Thursday announced big changes for the company's research division, HP Labs. The reorganization will see the research facility concentrate its focus in five core areas: information management, cloud computing, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability...

Sprint Nextel announced a new voice and data pricing plan Thursday, offering customers access to a bevy of services for $99.99 a month. The Simply Everything plan gives users unlimited access to voice, data, text, e-mail, Web surfing, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS navigation, Direct Connect and Group...

A surge in server shipments during the fourth quarter helped HP gain ground against IBM in server sales revenue and extend its lead in server shipments, according to a report released Thursday by Gartner. Overall for the year, worldwide server shipment sales grew in 2007, increasing 7.4 percent from...

The Wii once again took the top spot in console sales, according to January figures released by NPD Thursday. The Nintendo console sold some 274,000 units in the U.S. last month. Sony's PlayStation 3 had another month of strong sales, ringing up 269,000 units to beat out Microsoft's Xbox 360, which ...

With a marked lack of fanfare, Microsoft lowered the price of its Xbox 360 add-on HD DVD player from $179 to $129. Microsoft has also bundled five free HD DVDs with the player. The price cut comes just a few weeks after Toshiba dropped the price on its three HD DVD standalone players to $149 from $2...

In an effort to boost its market share in China, Google is reportedly in the final stages of a deal with Universal Music Group that would enable the Internet search giant to provide free music downloads to Chinese users. Google, the No. 1 search engine in other large markets such as the U.S., signif...

Graphics card maker Nvidia announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Ageia, creator of PhysX, technology that adds a higher level of real-world physics realism to video games. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. All major consoles -- the Sony PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii, and the Mi...

Dell announced Wednesday it will shutter its retail kiosks in shopping malls across the U.S. as it continues with its six-month-old retail store and direct-sales strategy. Dell launched the Direct Store kiosks in 2002 as a way to give consumers who may have been unfamiliar with its computers the opp...

The global mobile handset market ended 2007 with a bang, recording shipments of more than 300 million devices in the fourth quarter, according to a report released by IDC Friday. While year-over-year growth for 2007 slowed, the 334 million handsets shipped during the holiday season set a new industr...

Cisco will invest nearly $1.6 billion on information and communications technology in the United Arab Emirates over the course of the next five years, the company announced Monday. The network vendor will open a new regional headquarters in Dubai in April with a second office set to open in Abu Dhab...

Computer manufacturers had cause for good cheer in the fourth quarter of 2007 with PC shipments increasing a little more than 15 percent worldwide and nearly 9 percent in the U.S., according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report. However, the pending recession in the U.S. could led to slowe...

Legions of Oprah Winfrey fans will have access to the talk show megastar 24/7 on "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network," Winfrey and Discovery Communications President and CEO David Zaslav announced Tuesday. The joint venture will enable Discovery to repurpose its less-than-successful Discovery Health cha...

While apparel, department and specialty stores bemoan a 2007 less-than-stellar holiday sales season, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy announced Friday that its total revenue for the fiscal month ending Jan. 5 rose 11 percent to $7.3 billion, meeting the company's expectations. That increase wa...

As sales numbers for the holiday season begin to surface, it appears that the video game console industry was able to sustain the heavy momentum it enjoyed throughout 2007. Releases put out in the last week from both Microsoft and Sony point to a solid season for the Xbox 360 and PS3. While Nintendo...

While brick-and-mortar retailers assess the damage from what could be the worst holiday shopping season since 2002, online retailers are celebrating a banner year. For the 2007 holiday season, online shopping reached nearly $28 billion, according to a report released by comScore. That represents a 1...

IBM has teamed with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software company, to develop a payment system powered by IBM's open standards based System Z platform. The new offering will include IBM's DB2 database, WebSphere middleware and Tivoli management software as well as its Crypto-chip technology...

With sales of Sony's struggling PlayStation 3 video game console picking up in Europe, Japan and the United States, the company's CEO, Howard Stringer, revealed details of its plans going forward for the console at a press conference Tuesday held in Tokyo. The PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in...

Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., announced Tuesday it has acquired Beliefnet, a leading religious Web site. The purchase expands the media mogul's marketing and advertising reach into a demographic that provides the company with a balance to its other online prop...

Users of AOL's fledgling video download service may be in for a surprise the next time they visit the site. The one-time Internet leader has shuttered its 1-year-old video service and is now funneling users to Amazon.com's Unbox video download site. The shutdown follows AOL's decision to reinvent it...

PlayStation Portable users will soon be saying good-bye to their old download service. Sony, maker of the PSP, announced Tuesday it has launched a new service, the PlayStation Store, for the PC from which PSP owners can purchase content directly. The current PSP download service will reportedly go d...