Here’s another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer.

The Calpella platform is scheduled for launch in July or August, just like Montevina (aka Centrino 2) did earlier this year.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday said the struggling U.S. economy could face more challenges and urged lawmakers to act quickly on recovery proposals even as some Republicans expressed concerns about plans for a huge stimulus package.

Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers. After all, you can’t pay engineers in “shout outs” on their blogs like their offering for users.

Yes, the tanking economy is hitting the mighty Google just as hard as every other company out there, and they’re having to cut costs as a result.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama plans to meet on Monday with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to discuss their legislative agendas including how to jump-start the struggling U.S. economy, a congressional aide said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy extended its run of record-breaking dismal data on Tuesday, with consumer confidence and home prices registering a pair of grim milestones.

The timing couldn’t be better for USB blood pressure monitors thanks to stress from a failing economy, pressures at work and our natural tendency to eat like crap and avoid exercise like the plague.

Brando has developed two products that can help us test our blood pressure on the go—all you need is a computer with a free USB port.

For many cash-strapped workers, Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the economy could mean more take-home money in their paychecks.

With the economy and the market floundering, you need Money’s help more than ever. Our experts are on the case.

In anticipation of Vista’s new hardware requirements—a truckload of RAM—major RAM suppliers like Hynix and Samsung basically doubled their production. Vista’s anemic sales and the economy hosed them, but it’s good for you.

Every maker has a huge oversupply of RAM—Hynix has raised capacity by 159 percent, Inotera by 112 percent, Elpida by 103 percent and Samsung by 86 percent—that they’re struggling to offload.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers’ sales fell as much as 4 percent during the holiday season, as the weak economy and bad weather created one of the worst holiday shopping climates in modern times, according to data released on Thursday by SpendingPulse.