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Polaroid and Olympus yesterday introduced the C-211 Zoom, a hybrid digital camera with the ability to make instant Polaroid prints. The Camedia, slated for...

CHICAGO — Landsman Capitol Associates has filed a suit against Sharp Electronics alleging the consumer electronics manufacturer sold products to favorite accounts at lower...

Modems for the masses is the KDS battle cry for its line of entry-level modems and an upcoming plan to offer free ISP service...

Xerox’s newly minted operation to grab hold of the inkjet printer business will not be derailed by the company’s decision last week to slash...

Lexar Media yesterday introduced the Universal Serial Bus Photo Connection kit that allows the downloading of images through a PC’s USB port. The kit...

TDK Electronics will unveil a line of CD-RW drives later this year, breaking away from the company’s long-standing tradition of concentrating on the blank...

MANASSAS, Va.–SanDisk and Toshiba reported today the formation of a joint venture called FlashVision that will develop advanced flash memory wafers for digital cameras,...

After years of catering to the PC gaming community, some multimedia speaker vendors are shifting their attention to audiophiles interested in turning their PCs...

Consumers’ interest in the Internet will express itself in a huge PC buying boom this year, with the PC home penetration rate passing 60%...

PC industry analysts cited a saturated market as the primary reason U.S. PC unit shipments tailed off during the second quarter compared to the...

Compaq barely managed to hold off Dell and retain the lead in PC market share for the second quarter in the U.S., according to...

Cupertino, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard broke new ground in PC merchandising last week when it launched a PC-in-a-box hard bundle through Wal-Mart. In the past,...

Intel kept pace with rival AMD in the race to roll out gigahertz-level processors today when Hewlett-Packard reported it will ship a new Pavilion...

To keep pace with the growing number of rebates offered by ISPs, PC vendors and retailers, Hand Technologies announced its own $400 mail-in rebate...

VTech Industries will start shipping a new portable e-mail device this spring and plans to expand distribution for its current e-mail device line into...

Getting ready for the 2000 holiday selling season, Microsoft introduced last week a slew of products in most of the company’s hardware and software...

The PC will not be the center of the home network for long, said Sony president Nobuyuki Idei at Comdex yesterday. The ubiquitous computer...

Value-priced PC maker eMachines has signed on to manufacturer the MSN Companion Internet appliance, which will start shipping by the end of October. The...

Hewlett-Packard’s president and CEO Carly Fiorina was named chairman today taking over the post from Richard A. Hackborn. Fiorina joined HP last July and...

Entry-level PC maker eMachines will take advantage of IBM and Packard Bell NEC abandoning the consumer retail market by introducing higher priced PCs next...

Xerox, Sharp and Fuji today announced the formation of the SoHo Printing Alliance whose primary task will be to take on inkjet printer market...

IBM rolled out its back-to-school desktop and notebook computer line, including new Aptiva E models ranging in price from $799 to $1,899. The notebook...

Internet radio listeners can take a step or two away from their PCs and still listen to their favorite Web stations, purchase music CDs...

Sales of home-networking kits have plodded along for most of 1999, but one vendor said broadband Internet connectivity could be exactly what the category...

National Semiconductor last week reported it had signed a letter of intent for the Taiwanese firm Via Technologies to purchase National’s Cyrix stand-alone X86...

New York — Polaroid and Olympus introduced the codeveloped Camedia C-211 Zoom, a hybrid digital camera with the ability to make instant Polaroid prints....

Sony yesterday at the PMA show in Las Vegas revamped its industry-leading Mavica digital camera line with the release of three new models and...

In a direct affront to the Wintel cartel Gateway decided to use the newly developed Transmeta Crusoe processor and the mobile Linux operating system...

New York – Iomega took its first step toward reinventing itself as a consumer electronics company yesterday with the release of the HipZip digital...

The flat-panel desktop monitor category spent most of 1999 pricing itself out of the home consumer market, but vendors expect this situation to turn...

P>Milipitas, Calif. – Maxtor reported today it will purchase Quantum’s hard drive division for $1.3 billion in stock. If the deal is concluded Maxtor...

The various slices of the computer retail pie remained relatively static during the past two years, with each retail segment maintaining its share of...

Kodak and Olympus today introduced sub-$500 digital cameras aimed at the mainstream consumer market. Kodak unveiled the DC3400 that started shipping today, while Olympus...

CompUSA CEO James Halpin stepped down on Friday amidst a flurry of activity that saw CompUSA shutter its online component cozone.com and reassign several...

Intel today introduced its newest generation of mobile Pentium III processors, which include a new technology called SpeedStep that allows the chips to run...

Iomega, in an effort to find new markets for the company’s Clik! memory storage disk, rolled out the Clik! PC Card Drive that allows...

With the introduction of a 750MHz processor this week, AMD can again say it has the fastest chip on the market. The new AMD...