Erica Ogg

The up-and-coming PC company is shifting its lineup a bit. At its first quarter investor relations conference in Taipei Wednesday, Acer President Gianfranco Lanci said Acer would release its first smartphone--a Windows Mobile device--by the end of this year or early next year, and that smartphones will account for 10 ...

The chairman and founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative said in an interview Tuesday that the XO laptop may switch from using Linux to eventually running Windows XP, according to several reports. Windows XP could soon be available on the XO. (Credit: OLPC) In an interview with the Associated Press ...

Blockbuster sure sounds like it wants to buy Circuit City, but is it able to? The financial advisers to Circuit City told company officials Wednesday that they think Blockbuster, which has offered $1 billion for the consumer electronics retailer, doesn't have the proper financing to make good on its ...

Now this is a passionate user base. Protesters turned out to riot and burn photos at a press conference in Seoul Wednesday held by former Samsung top lawyer, Kim Yong-Chul, and the Associated Press got a great photo of the civil disobediance in action. We're not allowed to run ...

Comcast said Wednesday it has changed its mind on a joint wireless communication venture with Sprint-Nextel, according to a Reuters report. The service, called Pivot, was begun as a partnership between the cable giant, Sprint, Time Warner, Cox Communications, and Advanced/Newhouse Communications in 2006. It offered a package of ...

How apropos: On Earth Day, a PC company says they're going to make a greener PC. We already know Dell wants to be the greenest company on the planet, or in the solar system, or something. So as part of his remarks to the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference in ...

Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the U.S. this year. Now it looks like there will be more to choose from in OLED TVs next year. Samsung SDI says that by 2009, not ...

Compelling gadgets are the key to consumers' hearts--and wallets--during a recession, according to a consumer spending study. Of those surveyed, 37 percent of U.S. consumers say they plan to cut back when it comes to entertainment purchases this year, according to an upcoming report from The NPD Group, "Entertainment ...

Looks like Dish may have spoken a bit too soon. A little over a week ago, an appeals court determined that Dish Network (formerly EchoStar Communications) had indeed violated a software patent held by TiVo on digital video recorders. (Credit: CNET Networks) While TiVo gleefully celebrated, Dish expressed disappointment, but ...