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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Biden said the Colonial fuel pipeline that was shuttered by a ransomware attack last week is fully operational again, but asked Americans for patience and warned gas stations against price-gouging. Photographer: T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The White House opens a new era of cybersecurity

South Africa, too, is vulnerable to cyber attacks and needs to take steps to secure its digital futur

The end of Moore’s Law

Billions of people now carry around more computing power in their pockets than was used to land a man on the moon, writes Alistair Fairweather.

Moore’s law of shrinking circuits has its limits

Even for its author, Moore’s law – a predictor of progress in the electronics industry – has been around a lot longer than expected.

Intel aims to reinvent desktop computing

Intel unveiled developments at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that it says will help drive the reinvention of desktop computing.

CES 2014: Intel to speed up wearables, slow conflict minerals

At the CES, Intel’s Brian Krzanich has announced its plans to accelerate innovation across devices while addressing the issue of conflict minerals.

Yolo! Intel smartphone launched in Kenya

Kenya’s Safaricom has announced the release of the Yolo smartphone, the first smartphone for Africa using the Intel smartphone platform.

Google chief to face competition chief in antitrust inquiry

Google chief to face competition chief in antitrust inquiry

Google’s Eric Schmidt is to meet the European Commission’s antitrust chief amid signs that the search giant will be accused of abusing its position.

Will Intel’s Ultrabook take on the iPad?

Intel has said computer makers Lenovo, Asustek and Acer will launch its new lightweight notebook PCs — known as Ultrabooks — at the end of May.

PC doubts lead as Microsoft profit looks set to rise

Microsoft is expected to post a 9% increase in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, but investors may be distracted by evidence of flickering PC sales.

Hardware? Software? Who cares?

Right now a tectonic shift is under way in one of the world’s most important industries: information technology.

Intel sets bright tone for earnings, tech rises

Resilient demand for PCs and servers helped Intel’s margin and revenue forecasts blast past Wall Street expectations.

Fast and efficient: Chips of the future revealed

Intel on Monday revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video-game lovers and multitaskers.

Intel shows off new laptop chip package

Intel rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops on Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities.

‘Very little enterprise-wide uptake of Vista’

Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker business partner of Microsoft, has no immediate plans to roll out the Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.

Microsoft, Intel research chips with US universities

Microsoft and Intel said on Tuesday they are teaming with United States universities to unleash the mighty potential of multicore computer chips. A recent trend is to increase…

Why Microsoft should watch out

It seems that the £200 (about R3 150) ultraportable Asus Eee PC can do no wrong. The size of a paperback, weighing less than a kilogram, with built-in Wi-Fi and using Flash…

Computing industry ready to fight climate change

Computing-industry leaders claimed on Monday a leading role in the fight against climate change, arguing that software could cut world energy use. ”Green computing” has been…

Microsoft drops Vista price to boost sales

Microsoft has announced steep price cuts in its Vista operating system in a bid to spur sales of its year-old operating system. The move, announced late last week, came as the…

Microsoft ends production of HD DVD players

Microsoft is to stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba ceded the high-definition video-format battle to Sony’s Blu-ray. Microsoft said on…

Google’s Android debuts in Barcelona

The first cellphones fitted with Google’s Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a milestone for the internet giant as it looks to…