Microsoft is releasing a tool that's intended to prevent feelings of buyer's remorse in the average tech consumer by helping them time purchases to get the best deal. READ»
A new survey by the American Library Association shows that 99.3% of public libraries offer free access to the web even if you don't have a PC and 67% offer e-books. Summer just got a whole lot cooler. READ»
HP's just revealed an all-in-one PC that's reminiscent of the current iMac, but sports a touchscreen and novel tilting stand. The thing is, it's pretty similar to patents Apple has protecting the design of future touchscreen iMacs.READ»
That girl on the Foursquare logo always looked a little worried, and now we know why: A bigfoot named Facebook just stomped into her territory to steal away her check-in game. At least that's that way it looked yesterday when Facebook stepped decidedly into space previously dominated by the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla, as well as Groupon. READ»
This week we're expecting big things from Apple. One of them is a MacBook Air refresh, and some tempting details surfaced over the weekend. The leaked data inspires one interesting thought: Are we about to say bye-bye to the optical drive?READ»
There are a growing number of indicators that the end of the recession is happening, and here's a surprising one: Sales of PCs around the world literally rocketed upwards from their previously doomy pace at the end of ...READ»
Is this the end of the recession? Gallup's latest poll for projected Christmas gift spending shows that U.S. consumers may be about to spend a little more money than they did last year. Some $743 on average, versus a measly $639 in ...READ»
All you doubting Thomases can shut up now: Lifecasting/social net Twitter really does work as a marketing tool, as confirmed by PC retail leviathan Dell.
Dell started Tweeting about two years ago, when the system was pretty new. ...READ»
It's October 22,2009. It's Windows 7 Day! You can bet that many a PC user can barely contain their excitement about the opportunity to upgrade from XP and consign Vista to history's dustbin. Microsoft's got a suite of events and ...READ»
At the end of the day in Seattle yesterday Apple dropped its third quarter financial results. It's a regular act, nothing to be excited about. Except Apple's figures are, in the light of the current economic slowdown, astonishing.The ...READ»
A recent survey says that consumers have no idea about the weaknesses of netbooks versus notebooks, and have no idea how best to exploit the mini PCs. Disney meanwhile does understand, and has come up with a great netbook audience: ...READ»
Intel and Nokia have just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so that they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're ...READ»
Intel and Nokia just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used ...READ»
China’s announcement Monday that all computers sold in that country must include state-approved software to filter out pornography has drawn a good deal of commentary this week, none of it good. PC makers, civil liberties groups, ...READ»
This is the story of two phones. The first is the most remarkable phone ever to come from the great Palm factories. The second's the astonishing brainchild of Apple's laboratories. The two devices are in pitched battle, supported by ...READ»
Though Intel and Psion have kissed and made up over the trademark term "netbook," it doesn't matter. A new PC from Toshiba has finally killed the genre. It's dead and gone. Because the mini NB205 is the quintessential ...READ»
"Wires, wires, wires" or possibly "a nest of vipers" could serve as a description for the space beneath my desk, where my MacBook's battery cable snakes through a spaghetti of others from my phone, my ...READ»
Apple, it seems, has won the PC design war: Dell's new all-in-one PC is shamelessly iMac-like, right down to its bent-sheet aluminum "foot" that the Studio One 19 stands on. There are extras, of course, like the colored ...READ»
