Laptops/Notebooks News

Curiosity on Sunday used its robotic arm to drill into a rock dubbed "Cumberland" to collect a powdered sample from inside the rock that will be delivered to the rover's onboard science instruments over the next several days.

Lenovo has revealed that a more powerful version of its Yoga 11 convertible is earmarked for release next month.

Touchscreen laptops appear to be rising in popularity as the newest data from market research firm DisplayBank says that touchscreen notebook shipments have jumped 51.8% during Q1 2013 compared to the previous quarter.

After making appearances at both CES and Mobile World Congress earlier this year, Dell's ambitious mini-PC Project Ophelia will finally be ready for consumers later this summer.

More customers are satisfied with Apple's phones than any other handsets, but they're not as happy as they were last year, a new report said.

Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. each passed Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

"Apple Inc established an offshore subsidiary, Apple Operations International, which from 2009 to 2012 reported net income of $30bn, but declined to declare any tax residence, filed no corporate income tax return and paid no corporate income taxes to any national government for five years." It is as though a bunch of alien techies arrived from ... (more)

Hughes notes that the strong-selling 13-inch MacBook Air with a 1.8-gigahertz processor and 256-gigabyte solid-state drive model is currently out of stock at resellers Amazon, B&H, MacConnection, and MacMall, and that J&R is currently advertising that unit as only available for purchase in its brick-and-mortar stores, adding that the only reseller ... (more)

The new 13.3-inch QHD laptop will include a 3200 x 1800 resolution with 276 pixels-per-inch . By comparison, the Retina MacBook Pro has 227 PPI and the new Google Chromebook Pixel has a 239 PPI.

Asus announced today that it will debut the Zenbook Infinity Ultrabook with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 lid and keyboard deck at the upcoming Computex conference in Taiwan.

Hewlett-Packard's latest quarterly results will show how badly the deteriorating personal computer market damaged the company while CEO Meg Whitman tries to expand into more profitable areas of technology.

Operating profits in the segment fell 65% to $224 million, Dell is cutting prices to try to gain market share and is spending more on research and development and in hiring.

Project Ophelia, Dell's Android-based computer on a USB stick that was first showcased at CES early this year, is scheduled to begin shipping in July for around $100. The device is designed to plug directly into the HDMI port of a monitor to turn any display into a PC, gaming machine or even a set-top box.

Play Club is a relatively new initiative in Cape Town, describing itself as a book club for theatre lovers with the aim of building a sense of community in the local arts scene.

In the face of a slump in PC sales and industry debate over whether the smartphone or tablet is now the preferred tool for a large segment of domestic and even small business users, Asus continues to release a number of combined and flexible devices that try to play on both sides of the dividing lines.

Beijing, May 19 : 4G services, which provide mobile users with internet access up to 50 times faster than the current 3G network, will be launched in Shanghai next month when the China Mobile company begins large-scale trials.

The announcement of the Acer Aspire R7 was the best example of the company's assertion that it was moving from computers designed with touch to computers designed for touch.

Apple's MacBook Pro has been around since 2006, but, unlike the Air , the Pro has been substantially redesigned several times since its introduction.

It's just about that time of the year again when, as Alice Cooper would say, "school's out for summer." But for some students, "school's out forever." What does that mean? It means it's time for a graduation gift! Whether they're graduating high school or college, just about every grad needs some kind of tech gadget to prepare them for the next ... (more)

While many of us already have tablets like the iPad, the futuristic vision of people walking around with digital notebooks taking notes with a stylus never really came to be.