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Mac retail sales in the US last month fell 1 percent from a year ago, even as sales of Windows PCs climbed 7 percent, market research company NPD Group reported Tuesday.

On-demand CRM vendor Entellium's financial troubles, complicated by fraud charges against executives, might prove to be a cautionary tale for other vendors as well as existing and prospective customers.

With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager.

A shortage of lithium-ion batteries currently hurting laptop computer shipments will likely ease in the third quarter, said the head of the world's largest independent notebook battery maker.

ISuppli slashed its global chip sales growth forecast for 2008 by nearly half this week over fears the US economic downturn will crimp consumer demand for electronics goods.

Space could indeed become the final frontier for a 29-year-old network technician who was chosen as the winner of a Windows Vista promotional contest -- as long as the taxman doesn't put a crimp in his flight plans.

No matter how hard we pray, how many chickens we sacrifice, how often we chant naked by moonlight, every network is at one time or other exposed to the ultimate technology risk: users.

Hi, Bob. How are the kids? Guess what? We just signed Keanu Reeves to reprise his role in Speed III. I hope I see him walking around the lot one of these days! Talk to you soon, Janice."

If the stock market nausea of the past few weeks has demonstrated anything lasting (a debatable point) it may be that technology investors have finally had their fill of fanciful business plans and amateurish execution. In other words, the screw-ups are being handed their walking papers, particularly among the dot-coms.

If you're catching a whiff of desperation in the air, it just may be blowing over from Redmond, Washington. And I'm not referring to Microsoft Corp.'s legal struggles with the Department of Justice and the decision of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, which at this point have become old news. I'm talking about the veritable tail whipping Microsoft has received to date in the handheld market and its final attempt to win over the wallets of handheld users the world over.

Representatives of the U.S. Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force recently toured Silicon Valley to get a better handle on the technocrats' election-year concerns. And much to the feds' surprise, the number-one issue has nothing to do with technology.