Feb. 23, 2012 | ROY HARRIS

With Dell Inc.'s missed first-quarter sales forecast this week, a development that knocked its share price down as much as 5% the next day, Dell CFO Brian Gladden has emerged with CEO Michael Dell as a second spokesman for the personal-computer company's future.

Feb. 23, 2012 | JAMES NICCOLAI

Hewlett-Packard's profit dipped sharply in the first quarter as consumers slowed spending on its PCs and printers, HP announced Wednesday.

Feb. 23, 2012 | JOHN COX

In the real world, leaks cause you to sink, but in the iOSsphere they cause you to float, higher and higher.

Feb. 23, 2012 | JARED NEWMAN

Asus may finally show off its Padfone at Mobile World Congress next week, after teasing the modular device since last May.

Feb. 23, 2012 | JAMES NICCOLAI

Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become "too complex and too slow," President and CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, offering a three-part turnaround plan to get the ailing company back on track.

Feb. 23, 2012 | AL SACCO

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's (RIM) first entry into the fiercely competitive tablet market, the PlayBook, wasn't exactly well-received by the masses when it was released last April. A variety of factors contributed to the lukewarm reaction, but the PlayBook's lack of a dedicated e-mail client and native personal information management (PIM) apps, such as a calendar and contacts, were the focus of the negativity. The PlayBook also did not connect to corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Servers (BES), making it less than ideal for businesspeople.

Feb. 23, 2012 | KATHERINE NOYES

Just a few short weeks after giving users of Google Docs for Android offline access to their documents, Google on Wednesday announced another highly sought-after addition to the software.

Feb. 23, 2012 | DEREK DU PREEZ

Wal-Mart Stores, the retail umbrella company that owns ASDA, has announced plans to take a 51 per cent majority stake in Yihaodian, a China based e-commerce website.

Feb. 23, 2012 | DAMON BROWN

We've seen accident after accident of people texting, gaming, or web surfing while walking. The U.S. government is now considering banning all automobile phone calls, including hands free.

Feb. 23, 2012 | JEFF BERTOLUCCI

Amazon may have colorful plans for the e-ink members of its Kindle family. According to a Digitimes report, electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holdings has reportedly received an order from Amazon to build 6-inch color e-reader models.

Feb. 23, 2012 | LUCIAN CONSTANTIN

Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the ZeuS computer Trojan that no longer relies on command and control (C&C) servers for receiving instructions, according to Symantec security researchers.

Feb. 23, 2012 | CHRIS KANARACUS

Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a "gray market" conspiracy to provide support for Oracle's Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Feb. 23, 2012 | STEPHEN LAWSON

With Wi-Fi poised to become a much bigger part of mobile networks, the leaders in wireless LAN and cellular technology are converging on the same space from opposite directions.

Feb. 23, 2012 | LUCAS MEARIAN

An organization that represents CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders is protesting government plans to delay a deadline requiring a new medical coding system.

Feb. 22, 2012 | COLIN NEAGLE

After watching customers continually download and install one of the vendor's free, limited products from the company website, Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley was interested to see how they would respond to the same access to its more advanced products.

Feb. 22, 2012 | SARAH MCBRIDE (VIA SMH)

CEO of a gaming start-up, Josh Buckley, 20, is looking forward to March's Game Developers Conference. There's one problem: he may be turned away from parties because he's not old enough to drink.

Feb. 22, 2012 | LUCIAN CONSTANTIN

A team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, one of the most popular video-based antispam tests on the Internet, and have proposed a solution to increase its resilience to attacks.

Feb. 22, 2012 | ELLEN MESSMER

Qualys, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based security firm specializing in vulnerability assessment and management, is poised for an initial public offering (IPO) later this year.

Feb. 22, 2012 | JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN

Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of Apache Hadoop.

Feb. 22, 2012 | KIM S. NASH

Just as all politics is local, so are supply chains local.