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Chipmaker Intel is getting ready to release new motherboard designs featuring a "Remote Wake" feature that will enable desktop PCs connected to the Internet via Ethernet to power up when they detect an incoming VoIP call. Although the technology will initially only be available on selected Intel-designed motherboards, the company is reported working with OEMs who do their own motherboard designs—like Dell and… Read More

Hewlett Packard, working in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, today announced a voluntary recall of select HP and Compaq notebook computer battery packs. The total number of recalled products numbers about 135,000 worldwide, with around 85,000 being here in the United States. The reason for the recall, as explained in this USCPSC notice, relates to an internal short which could cause the battery cells… Read More

Hewlett-Packard said on Monday that it will provide five of its HP Photosmart R707 digital cameras to each of 10 Fairmont Hotels, including ones in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, Miami and Hawaii. Starting this week and running through Sept. 20, guests can check out the cameras, take pictures and print them using an HP Photosmart 245 photo printer installed at the hotels, Palo Alto, California-based HP said. Read the… Read More

While Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the world's two largest PC makers, have traded the top spot since HP completed its merger with Compaq Computer in May 2002, the past quarter changed that equation. The latest market share figures reveal that Dell was able to capture a good part of the increase in business spending on PCs. The company also grew faster in Asia and Europe, a traditional HP stronghold. Overall, Dell shipped over 1 million… Read More

The growing trend of home networking–and the reasons why users are assembling such networks–puts PC makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard in the catbird's seat, according to a survey releasedMonday by the NPD Group. But as home networking expands from handling basic PC-centric chores such as file sharing, those vendors may not be the ones that end up with the bulk of the market, NPD'sstudy concluded. The survey, which… Read More

But the technology comes with another, less appealing feature: a confusing format war, in which customers have to choose between competing, incompatible standards. To add to the confusion, the namesof the two leading formats — DVD+R and DVD-R — are similar. So far, it's an even fight. Of the 7.5 million blank DVDs sold last year — compared with 1.6 billion blank CDs — the research firm NPD Group estimated that… Read More