U.S. files antitrust suit against Intel, alleges unfair tactic

Thursday, December 17th, 2009
U.S. files antitrust suit against Intel, alleges unfair tactics used against rivals

The Obama administration sued chip giant Intel on Wednesday over a decade-long run of actions allegedly designed to stifle competition, opening a new front in the battle that big technology firms have been waging for years against antitrust challenges in Asia and Europe.

Roku HD-XR Excels at Streaming Media to Your TV

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Roku HD-XR Excels at Streaming Media to Your TV

Streaming media players that relay Internet video content to TVs are becoming increasingly common–but ones that do it well and reliably for HDTV over a wireless network are less so. That’s why the Roku HD-XR is a real gem: For $130 (as of 11/24/09), it delivers high-definition content from Netflix,..

Polywell Poly P5500C: Massive Storage, Mini Design

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Polywell Poly P5500C: Massive Storage, Mini Design

The Polywell Poly P5500C power desktop PC has a 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 870 processor. That isn’t the fastest CPU on the charts, but it’s swift enough to help the system come within 7 percent of the category’s speed leader, the Xi MTower PCIe 965