Here are my top gadget gifts that you might want to consider for this holiday season.    Read More

I have posted in the past just how compelling a platform iPhone has become for mobile gaming development and gamers themselves, posing a pretty significant competitive threat to the likes of Nintendo and Sony.    Read More

Michael Dell in his prepared comments in the company's Third Quarter earnings report points to a recovery in IT spending and cites Microsoft's Windows 7 release as juicing small and medium business spending, as well as spending by the consumer.   Read More

As Dell prepares to release its earnings Thursday, there's a strange thing happening around this company: Could this company be showing new signs of life even as competition in every one of the markets it serves begins to heat up?    Read More

Has the sun begun to set on Twitter? Has its finest moments faded into the past?    Read More

I've just gotten off the phone with Andy Bryant, Intel's former Chief Financial Officer and now the company's Chief Administrative Officer, who offered to walk me through some of the background connected to this case, and the reasons why Intel is settling the case now.   Read More

Apple Inc. has opened lots of stores over the past couple of years, but today's New York City event is a little different than most. That's because senior vice president Ron Johnson, Apple's retail guru, had some comments to share about the company's upcoming retail plans for 2010.    Read More

It's a pretty big check for a company that's done nothing wrong. At least that's the early read from the big news this morning that Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices set aside years of bitter litigation, settling their anti-trust suits, and resolving all outstanding legal issues.    Read More

Earlier this year, Cisco opened a major front against one-time partners Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the hotly competitive, and fast-growing server market with its blade, and so-called Unified Computing System initiative.    Read More

A weird thing is happening right now, and it borders on the dangerous. Companies want to merge, and partner, and collaborate, and they have lots of cash on the balance sheet, ready to do deals that may help jumpstart their businesses, light a fire under sluggish markets, increase efficiencies, and generate nice returns for their investors. Yet federal agencies in this country and abroad aren't merely getting more active when it comes to scrutinizing the deals, they're getting activist.    Read More