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...
The adage "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" is particularly appropriate in the market for consumer video formats and players. Consistently, manufacturers have been unwilling or unable to develop formats compatible over a broad range of CE devices, and consumers have suffe...
Sony is shuffling its Cell Broadband Engine deck chairs in an effort to cut losses related to production of PlayStation 3 game consoles and improve the units' efficiency and pricing. The company is selling to Toshiba its fabrication facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, a deal expected to take place by the...
Acer's purchase of Gateway could help it become a top-tier PC maker worldwide over time, but a day after the deal was announced, questions were being raised about the $710 million price tag on the acquisition. Shares of Acer, traded on Taiwan's Taipei Stock Exchange, on Tuesday fell nearly 7 percent...
The long-consolidating personal computer industry is shrinking once again, with Taiwan-based Acer saying it reached a deal to buy Gateway in a deal worth $710 million, a move that has implications in both the U.S. and Europe. The once market-leading Gateway -- the current iteration of which is itsel...
Blockbuster will offer high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format in all of its stores, the company said, favoring Sony's approach for next-generation DVDs and dealing a blow to the rival HD DVD format. The movie rental giant will continue to offer consumers the option of getting HD-DVD movies thr...
Electronics maker Toshiba lowered its sales target for high-definition DVD players and recorders based on slumping sales figures in the United States. The Tokyo-based company now expects to sell 1 million of its optical disc players in the country by the end of this year, down 44 percent from its pr...
Electronics retailer Best Buy is being investigated for allegedly using two different Web sites to sell merchandise online, including one that may have led to some consumers paying higher prices. The office of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking into the alleged bait-and-switc...
Slumping Dell has lost the label of world's largest PC maker to rival Hewlett-Packard, according to two research firms, with HP grabbing the crown Dell wore for nearly three years. Both Gartner and IDC said HP pulled ahead of Dell in the third quarter, though both firms emphasize the gap was narrow,...
The massive recall of Sony-made notebook PC batteries may be taking more of a financial toll on the company than initially expected. The company said Tuesday it may need to revise its financial forecasts. Sony is evaluating whether to adjust its previous forecast of US$1.1 billion in profit for the...
Already facing tens of millions of dollars in costs associated with replacing recalled laptop batteries for several major PC makers, Sony now faces the prospect that some of these companies will try to recoup additional damages, such as compensation for lost business. Toshiba said Monday it is curre...
Intel is facing a sweeping patent infringement suit from a far-smaller competitor. Transmeta is alleging that the chip giant infringed on 10 of its patents. Transmeta claims Intel knowingly infringed on technology protected by U.S. patents covering things such as computer architecture and power eff...
Japan's Fujitsu became the latest PC maker forced to recall Sony-made batteries in some of its notebook computers. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard said its laptops appear to be unaffected by the overheating and fire problems that have led to the recall of some 7 million batteries worldwide. Fujitsu join...
As the number of PC makers recalling notebook computers loaded with its batteries continues to grow, Sony is now facing accusations that it knew the batteries were susceptible to overheating and possibly catching fire but failed to sufficiently study the problem. A Japanese newspaper, the Yomiuri Sh...
As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions -- with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire -- Dell has expanded the recall it initiated on Aug. 15, adding more products to the list. Sony, for ...
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