Laptops/Notebooks News

By personal computing, I mean PCs, tablets, as well as in the future also likely smartphones.

Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines.

Intel lost the opportunity to power the iPhone, but the company is hard at work to make sure they don't get completely shut out of mobile hardware, and to do so they're hiring some old Apple talent.

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a brand new Man of Steel -themed Toshiba laptop and it could be yours!" - in conjunction with Man of Steel from Warner Bros.

Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, "controller-based" model, involving controllers and thin access points.

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.