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Why bother pushing PCs into the third world when a cell phone will already do all that most folks need?

What can you do with the significant bandwidth uptick that ExpressCard provides over the Cardbus predecessor? Here's two hints.

Microsoft has long advocated pen-based interfaces, as have several other software developers. What's the current state of the art, and what's the likelihood that the pen interface will eventually garner broad adoption?

AMD, Intel and other vendors unveiled new architectures at this year's ISSCC.

How will lithography trends affect future CPU designs?

Nvidia's latest chips launch the next battle in the CPU-versus-GPU tug-of-war for control of the PC architecture.

Want to save a few bucks on your Windows Vista purchase?

Windows Vista may not seem like much of an improvement over XP at first glance, but there's been a lot of replumbing in the sound subsystem.