The price of technology hardware bearing a stamp “Made in China” could start inching up soon as a movement among Chinese workers for better pay and working conditions begins to spread across the country.

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Tags: China, Foxconn, outsourcing, pay, suicide, technology, workers

Remember that “faulty file” McAfee released recently to customers of its anti-virus software? Well some folks can’t forget — mostly because it made their PC inoperable.

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Tags: anti-virus, faulty, file, McAfee, signature

Got DRAM? If not, you’d best stock up, because prices are soaring and industry experts predict they’ll keep climbing in coming months.

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Tags: DRAM, hike, memory, price

Component shortages will drive up the cost of PCs this year, and that could be bad news for businesses struggling to recover from the global recession.

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Tags: components, Financial Times, hike, PC, price, shortage

Jokes about nerd revenge and how cool it actually is to be good in school aside, it’s looking like the geeks may, in fact, inherit the earth. This month, Fortune magazine named one of the country’s biggest nerds CEO of the decade.

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Tags: Apple, CEO of the Decade, computers, Fortune, Steve Jobs

Among the leading and lagging indicators in the economy, there’s one that IT folks keep a close eye on: the PC industry. And it seems that the worst may be over for that segment.

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Tags: decline, Gartner, growth, PC sales, shipments, worldwide