In an effort to find more ways to plant itself in multimedia PCs that can serve as entertainment fixtures, Intel on Tuesday launched a developers contest with a booty worth up to $1 million. Under the ...

An earlier term for a Windows PC that included stereo sound and a CD-ROM or DVD drive. Although many lightweight laptops no longer include optical drives, personal computers of all types (Windows, Mac ...

Daniel Sterling rarely uses his computer for computing. Sterling depends on his Hewlett-Packard Co. Media Center Edition PC to record television shows, manage music playlists and organize digital ...

The A10 Media PC is a tiny computer with an Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 processor and 8GB of storage. Last month Cloudsto Electronics started offering a model with 512MB of RAM for £69.99. Now there’s ...

With its new VAIO PCV-RXG408 Sony has created a successful version of the "media PC" -- a computer that doubles as a personal video recorder (PVR) -- but some buyers may find the price tag a bit high, ...

An earlier package of hardware and software that turned a standard PC into a multimedia PC. It included a CD-ROM drive, sound card, speakers, cables, drivers as well as multimedia applications. See ...