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Intel reported a sharp rise in profit and said strong demand worldwide for computer chips would continue in the current quarter.

AP - computer shipments rose faster than expected in the second quarter, fueled by exceptional demand in emerging markets and a decline in prices in the U.S. and Western Europe, two research groups said Wednesday.

NewsFactor - Macintosh clone maker Psystar is feeling the heat. In a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco on July 3, Apple computer asked the court to '[require] Psystar to recall all such products sold to the public as a result of Psystar's infringement of Apple's copyrights.'

If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications.

Apple Inc. has moved up in the world, or at least the U.S., taking over the #3 spot during the second quarter in computer sales with 8.5% market share, the highest market share the Mac platform has held since Bill Clinton was in office. Apple's computer growth was 38.1% year-over-year, enough to edge past 4th place vendor, Acer, which holds 8.1% market share

AP - Kentaro Tohyama is proud of his new iPhone. He stood overnight in line to get it when the device became available in Japan for the first time. But the 29-year-old computer engineer isn't about to part with his made-in-Japan cell phone either.

Multimedia software maker CyberLink sees a lot of opportunities in the fast-growing netbook segment of the computer market, from online access to files stored on home PCs to multimedia software made for Linux OSs.

A security researcher claims that Apple delayed a critical iPhone security patch, even as it rolled out the patch in Webkit for Safari 3.1.1, according to Computerworld on Tuesday

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For the first time, a computer has beaten an actual human being in a poker championship. Poker is actually harder to create computer models for than games like chess or checkers, where all the information is right there on the table. Michael Bowling, one of the developers of the winning Polaris 2 program, talks about how he made it.