Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

On Monday, the Houston-based company will effectively retire its Deskpro, Armada and Professional Workstation brands to create a new line called Evo. "Evo is for evolution, as computing evolves away ...

I've worked on PCs since the 486 days and before that banged away on Amigas, Apples and older Commodores. In all that time I've built many a system and serviced countless others, but strangely never ...

We know, we know. A lot of you don’t like projects that consist of gutting a vintage computer (or anything else, for that matter) and replacing its internals with modern electronics. But can you ...

Hewlett-Packard Co., the fabled Silicon Valley computer maker, announced last night that it will purchase rival Compaq Computer Corp. for $25 billion in stock, as the two companies struggle to survive ...

Dell Computer Corp. assumed the No. 1 ranking in the worldwide PC market for the first quarter, slipping ahead of rival Compaq Computer Corp. in global unit shipments for the first time, according to ...

Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer for $25 billion, a pairing that brings together two of the largest makers of personal computers. The move comes at a time of deep retrenchment in the computer ...

The new employer issued a Compaq laptop and I want to have it print to my LaserWriter 16/600.<BR><BR>The laptop is a newer Armada (Win 2kPro) that connects to my home network easily and can get to the ...

Compaq Computer Corp. and the U.S. Marshals Service have seized a large quantity of what they say are counterfeit computer components from reseller Hardware 4 Less Inc. In a statement issued yesterday ...

A federal jury has found that Compaq Computer copied from an ergonomics book written for computer users by a New York concert pianist but said the theft wasn't substantial enough to award her any ...

A common example of the sheer amount of computing power available to almost anyone today is comparing a smartphone to the Apollo guidance computer. This classic computer was the first to use ...