Yahoo, Visa deal spreads overseas
Visa will be the default credit card for e-commerce shoppers paying with plastic on many international Yahoo sites. Under an agreement finalized Tuesday between Visa International and the Sunnyvale, Calif.
Visa will be the default credit card for e-commerce shoppers paying with plastic on many international Yahoo sites. Under an agreement finalized Tuesday between Visa International and the Sunnyvale, Calif.
Betting on a mobile future, Compaq and IBM get set to unveil laptops with built-in wireless networking technology-just like Dell and Toshiba before them.
According to the FBI, laptop theft is the second most prevalent computer crime, with less than 2 percent of stolen laptops recovered. Over 1.
Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN), the world's leading maker of computer chips used to convert soundsinto electronic form, on Monday said that by the year 2010 itwould be able to offer the power of today's laptop computer in adevice the size of a wristwatch. The company unveiled a long-term product strategy that itpromised would boost its chip performance by more than 15 timesby 2005 and more than 230 times over the next decade, based onadvances in materials, technology, and manufacturing capacity.
"This is so typical," Rhiannon says, slamming her notebook down on the table."Maybe he forgot," another editor says.
Escalating safety concerns about the systems that power passengers' laptop computers on aircraft have prompted United Airlines to shut off all such devices on its Boeing 777 jets and American Airlines to step up inspections and launch a fleetwide rewiring effort. Full story.
U.S.-based Socket Communications has released a collection of Compact Flash-based communications products for handheld computers, including a Bluetooth add-on for Microsoft Windows CE-based devices.
Teen-focused site Alloy.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ALOY) has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to develop and promote a Web site based on the Fearless series of teen books.
Bargain-hunting crowds are packing out asset liquidation sales for defunct dot-coms, looking to score anything from foosball tables to laptops. But the throngs are driving prices up.
The chipmaker scores in the corporate market, with Fujitsu choosing its chips to power 12,000 laptops that will be used by a Japanese insurance company.