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These big and beautiful TV's show virtually no pixelation when displaying UHD content .

This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa Harrington's blog on Contra Costa County schools.

Today's machines are not your '90s tower drive: That dull beige box full of add-in cards has gone the way of the dodo.

The company's policies for shutting off sales to retailers and shipping licenses to OEMS are posted on its site , which was recently updated to show that Windows 7's "retail end of sales" date was Oct. 30. Microsoft's new direction, the touch interface for tablet and desktop apps, the transition from Windows 7 -- InfoWorld covers all this and more ... (more)

Little Eye Labs is based in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where many Indian technology companies are based including software outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd. until 2007, the startup built a software tool for Android app developers to analyze how apps are performing.

Anonymous members, charged with a distributed denial-of-service attack on PayPal, entered a plea Thursday that could see some of them walk free at sentencing next December.

With iBeacon, Apple hopes to guide you around once you're inside, whether it's to pick up an order, upgrade to a new iPhone or shop for a pair of headphones.

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had disrupted the largest network of compromised personal computers, involving some 2 million machines around the world, since it stepped up its battle against organized online criminals three years ago.

The Colossus was kept top secret until the 70s, although Winston Churchill, above, gave hints of advanced computing knowledge during WWII with his famous 'binary signal'.

Whether you're looking for something thin and light, or want a tablet that performs like a laptop, there's plenty to choose from if you're willing to spend a bit more for a high-end laptop computer.

Willis Ware, a RAND Corporation engineer who in the 1960s predicted the ubiquity of the personal computer, the ways it would propel people into lives of perpetual change, and the perils it would pose for personal privacy, has died.

Hewlett-Packard took back its server crown from IBM last quarter as the overall market contracted and Taiwanese vendors made big gains selling directly to Internet giants like Google and Facebook, IDC reported Wednesday.

According to new a survey done by market research firm Parks Associates , Apple desktops have become the most sought after desktop computers this holiday season, beating out longtime holiday desktop leader Dell and other competitors such as HP and Acer.

At a meeting with youth on Wednesday to promote his landmark healthcare law, Obama said he is not allowed to have Apple's smart phone, the iPhone, for "security reasons," though he still uses Apple's tablet computer, the iPad.

Big software companies are betting the next big trend in personal computers will be wearable in nature; there are already smart glasses and smart watches.

If your computer is infected with a virus or other forms of malware, disconnecting the machine from the Internet is one of the first steps security experts say you should take.

A security researcher has released software and technical instructions for modifying a drone so that it can identify and hijack other drones.

Layla Poage, 5, rests on a cart while her mother, Heather Poage, looks at computers at Best Buy, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, in Overland Park, Kan.

An outside audit ordered by the Shelby County Schools board shows that $48.4 million in school equipment is missing or unaccounted for in the district.

The National Cheng Kung University Supercomputing Research Center has built the world's first switchless cluster computer.