Acer has voluntarily instituted a safety recall program to proactively replace the microphone cable in the affected CULV notebook units to eliminate any risk of overheating.

Finland may not be the most obvious place to stick millions of the world's computer servers. But the country now wants to become home to the world's computing power.

Acer has issued a voluntary recall for some of its Aspire laptops manufactured before September 15th 2009 which are experiencing an overheat of the microphone cable after "repeated" and "extreme" pressure is applied to the left palm rest. Affected models include the AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG.

If you thought that quality among DRAM DIMMs was evenly distributed, or that most DRAM errors are not due to hardware problems, Google has proven you wrong.

Despite a report from Digitimes stating Acer will delay the launch of its Android netbook until October, Acer said it remains on track to launch a version of its Aspire One netbook with Google's Android mobile operating system in the third quarter of this year.

Microsoft has announced Office Starter 2010, a reduced-functionality and ad-supported version that includes only Word and Excel. It is meant as a replacement for Microsoft Works and will only be available on new PCs sold by OEMs.

By the end of 2011, ARM will be a "small but significant" PC processor architecture, said a Gartner analyst.

Samsung Electronics has said it is considering absorbing its camera-making unit Samsung Digital Imaging. Samsung Digital Imaging currently develops and manufactures cameras, which are sold, distributed and marketed by Samsung.

Fans have been holding their breath since Sony released its new Slim version of the fabled console system. How has the console held up in the market? Has Sony rebounded from the previous years of lagging sales and criticism?