Comcast fired back at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday in its long-running duel with the agency. The cable-TV and Net service provider filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

The filing is the aftereffect of a FCC hearing last month in which Comcast was sanctioned for throttling back the broadband speed of cust…

Just one day after Dell announced it was moving into the market of netbooks by introducing its new Inspiron Mini 9, which weighs less than 2.3 pounds and has an 8.9-inch LED display, the company said it is partnering with Vodafone to resell the Mini 9 in Europe.

The two companies said Friday that the Mini 9 would be sold with a Vodafone built-in …

As the head of a company that sells used consumer electronics, David Chen chases sales of the iPhone with the precision of a mathematician. At the outset, the price of the first version of Apple’s music-playing wireless device behaved as expected: When the newer iPhone 3G hit store shelves, demand for the earlier iteration plummeted. soon aft…

There is something for everyone, according to Microsoft officials who are touting the company’s new prices for all three models of its video game console, the Xbox 360.

On Wednesday, U.S. consumers saw the Xbox 360 Arcade base model drop from $279 to $199 just a day after the software giant cut prices by 30 percent for the Xbox in Japan. And…

Red Hat on Thursday announced the acquisition of Qumranet, paying about $107 million in cash for the privately held company.

Qumranet is a virtualization company that is best known for its KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). In combination, these two Qumranet products offer a v…

Dell has taken the wraps off a new mini-notebook PC squarely aimed at U.S. consumers. Called the Inspiron Mini 9, the PC maker’s first offering in the so-called netbook category sports an 8.9-inch LED screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels.

To whittle the product’s minimum-weight requirements down to just 2.28 lbs, the netbo…

TiVo dropped two big announcements Thursday at CEDIA, the Custom Electronic Design and Installation organization trade show that opened Wednesday in Denver, Colo.

First up was TiVo’s one-terabyte high-definition DVR box, the HD XL. Next was a deal to bring the TiVo experience to DirecTV subscribers.

Massive Storage for the Masses

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