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NEWTON, Iowa — Maytag brand major appliances will begin to appear in SAM’s Clubs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area next week, and will continue...

Moving to improve profitability, Sharp Electronics Corp. announced a restructuring of its U.S. Consumer Electronics Group (CEG) that resulted in 30 layoffs. The plan...

Palm Inc. ended its quiet period, in place since its public offering, by announcing that every existing Palm device will be able to wirelessly...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – At PC Expo, the Palm family gained another member as Sony officially debuted a Palm-OS prototype. Palm Inc. also announced...

WebCOMBO launched at PC Expo, the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) package with a one-time fee for unlimited future access. The Milwaukee-based ISP is...

Leading WindowsCE handheld vendors Casio, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard announced the release of the new PocketPC handhelds (formerly known as Palm size PCs). With...

Tiger Electronics in an aggressive move to bring new technologies to kids’ toys will debut next week at the Toy Fair several “first” products...

In a surprise announcement, President Clinton said today that the Department of Defense will stop “degrading” the signal sent to consumer Global Positioning System...

TEMPE, Ariz. — AudioMonster Online has acquired ADST, based here, which markets the a/d/s/, Orion and Precision Power brands, with the intent of taking...

The already packed entry-level handheld organizer category will get a bit more crowded this summer when V-Tech and Fuga join the market. Both companies...

Lower prices and new features will help broaden the appeal of handheld organizers to general consumers this year, say industry observers. Handheld organizers remain...

The fledgling e-book market took two giant steps forward last week with the announcements that Thomson will offer e-book readers later this year and...

Microsoft announced today that its Windows Media Player with MP3 capability is available for all palm-size PCs from Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. Windows Media...

NEW YORK — At PC Expo, the Palm family gained another member as Sony officially rolled out a Palm-OS device. Palm Inc. also announced...

The fledgling e-book market took two giant steps forward this week with the announcements that Thomson will offer e-book readers later this year and...

Removable Flash memory is fast becoming a standard media for high-end handheld dictation products. Sanyo recently began shipping its first digital handheld dictation recorders...

Handheld PC players Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Casio report strong sales this fall, despite the shakeout of Philips and Goldstar from the Windows CE market....

Several digital audio radio companies joined Sirius Satellite Radio in claiming they will offer a “buy” button on future digital radios that will let...

Royal made an aggressive push in the handheld category as it introduced new product formats and unveiled at CES a Linux-based DaVinci model that...

Micro Center, Hiliard, Ohio, is test marketing free PCs in at least four markets including Houston, Philadelphia, Long Island and Denver, said the company....

3Com announced that Palm Computing has won a preliminary injunction against the sale of the Royal daVinci palm style PDA by Olivetti Office USA....

Retailers across the country report up to two months backorder on Palm units, due to a shortage in certain parts for the Palm. Amazon.com,...

Sharp has launched a redesigned series of Wizard organizers that feature a new user interface and allow users to add on their own software...

John Bermingham, who recently became Smith Corona’s president and CEO, is not ready to pronounce the long-ailing home office manufacturer as completely healed, but...

PORT WASHINGTON, NY — NPD Intelect is predicting sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) will more than double over last year, based on first-half...

New York, NY– Sony launched the CLIE, its first Palm OS handheld computer here last night with the promise that the device will revolutionize...

Despite the panic created by potential Y2K-related computer problems in the commercial sector, PC home users are not rushing into stores to purchase or...

Aggressive price moves from top-tier PC vendors and shifting computer component costs are forcing second- and third-tier competitors to shake up their businesses to...

More free and semi-free PCs are heading for the market, while the jury is still out on the long-term profitability and success of the...

As 3Com prepares to spin off its Palm Computing subsidiary, the company recently revealed that Motorola, Nokia and America Online (AOL) will be key...

Digital Paths, a start-up company based in Stanton, Calif., is launching an intermediary service between handheld computers and Internet sites that will allow a...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In an unusual Hollywood-style alliance for the handheld industry, Palm announced that a Claudia Schiffer version of the Palm Vx...

Palm Computing, a 3Com company, announced that the much anticipated Palm VII wireless organizer is now available to retailers in the New York metropolitan...

Palm Computing today demonstrated handheld Palm devices with Bluetooth technology for wirelessly exchanging information with PCs and other handhelds at the CeBIT trade show...

Retailers reported that the rash of ISP rebate promotions now available is creating a surge in PC sales, all but erasing the traditional July...

Personal digital assistant (PDA) vendors are setting the stage for these handheld devices to move beyond their current role as simple devices unable to...

Lexmark became the first printer company to offer Internet rebates that will result in free printer giveaways on three of its models. Lexmark announced...

In a countermeasure to the free and low-cost PCs sold via the Internet, some vendors are preparing to bundle a year’s free unlimited Internet...