Microsoft has already developed an iPod challenger, and it's been on sale for a couple of weeks at Best Buy and Amazon.com for about $200.

Lured by almost $1 billion in incentives, AMD has inked an agreement with the State of New York to construct a $3.2 billion fab there.

Sony admitted Monday that it had made missteps with its Walkman line of products, while also acknowledging that it was gambling by setting the price of the PlayStation 3 so high.

Gartner study says some hardware component will fail on nearly one-fifth of all laptops.