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Microsoft is investigating reported issues with Windows 7 and notebook battery life. The issue seems sporadic, but fairly widespread. It is unclear whether affected systems are simply misreporting the battery life, or if the battery capacity is actually being permanently affected.  read more »

Intel's chips already go into many laptops, but it is now making a play for television sets and cable boxes through a new processor it released on Thursday.  read more »

The Wireless Power Consortium have announced that they are nearing completion for a new industry standard in supplying electricity wirelessly.  read more »

Lenovo is recalling batteries from its ThinkPad line of laptops, warning users that some batteries may be permanently damaged due to certain errors.  read more »

Traveling within the U.S. can be stressful and expensive. When it's time to dig out your passport, there's no telling what will happen (other than you'll wish you hadn't had your passport photo taken at Walgreens). Packing a laptop and other gear doesn't make international travel any simpler, either.  read more »

Intel had to hustle to catch up with competitors in developing chips for mobile devices like smartphones, but the effort led to the development of the highly successful Atom chip, a company executive said on Wednesday.  read more »

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date.  read more »

Intel has once again pushed back the release of its next-generation Itanium server chip, this time from mid-2009 to the first quarter of 2010.  read more »

Netbook makers will soon play a larger role in the e-reader market if start-up Pixel Qi has anything to say about it.  read more »

Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor will be in the spotlight at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week, as hardware makers and computer vendors gear up for the release of the chip later this year.  read more »