The landmark personal computer, introduced by IBM 30 years ago Friday, launched the PC revolution, changing the way people work, communicate, and play. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from ...

IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said ...

On its face, the merger creates the third-largest PC business in the world, with approximately $12 billion in 2003 revenue and an 8 percent market share. The risk for Lenovo is that it might not add ...

There have been plenty of personal computer brands over the years that have gone extinct, like these five PC names that you might have forgotten about.

Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group has closed the acquisition of IBM's PC division, creating the third-largest PC company in the world. According to Lenovo, the merged company will have combined ...

Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This ...

Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very rich, computers today are one of the most ubiquitous technologies worldwide. The most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the ...

For me, the quintessential 80s PC experience was spending hours trying to figure why the thing wouldn't start, until finally figuring out it was because the battery powering the clock was dead. Y'see, ...

IBM has developed a ThinkPad laptop computer with a rotating screen that can be used as a tablet computer, according to documents made available by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Are you old enough to remember the sort of keyboard that ...