Corporate America took a tightfisted approach to its future last year, leading to an overall 3.5% decline in research and development spending at major industry titans, the first such drop in over a decade, according to a Booz & Co. survey cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Drumming up sales in a soft economy, chipmaker Intel and netbook pioneer ASUSTek Computer are turning their attention to tablet computers, jumping aboard before Apple corners the market with its recently introduced iPad.
Wanna streak through the streets in the U.K.? Dell's hoping you do, but with your clothes on. The computer company announced today its Streak tablet will debut in early June in the U.K. and later this summer in U.S. stores.