It's nearly time for the annual geek pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES. It's easy to write off this massive tech trade show as an outdated, overrated, overhyped gizmo-fest, but it does provide ahead-of-the-curve marketplace knowledge. Here's what's next for TVs and other tech gadgets in 2012.READ»
Once an unlikely rival for HP and Apple, Chinese computer maker Lenovo has grown and adapted as quickly as its homeland. Now, with a savvy blend of East and West, it's poised to be China's first global brand.READ»
No, that's not the setup to a joke. Google, YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures, NASA, ESA, and JAXA are pulling science and tech education into the spotlight yet again, hosting a global science fair with prizes that are, quite literally, out of this world. Who's laughing now? READ»
You may be surprised to find that in the PC market, Apple isn't even in the top 4 in the US, nor top 5 worlwide. How come it can't catch up to HP and Dell--not to mention Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba?READ»
Lenovo, one of the world's biggest computer manufacturers, has already diversified into producing smartphones, and now it's looking for even fresher markets: It's going to produce a games console. READ»
Apple isn't doing as well as it could in China. Why? The chairman of China's tech giant Lenovo thinks it's largely down to Steve Jobs himself, as the killer quote in the Financial Times article which is the source of this discussion ...READ»
Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»
Out of nowhere, HP announced that they will acquire the struggling smartphone maker Palm. Great news for Palm--what does this mean for the company's long-standing reputation and future prospects?READ»
Palm's options are somewhat thin on the ground, following today's news that HTC has lost interest in the struggling smartphone manufacturer. The firm best known for its Android handsets was thought of as the best hope for Jon ...READ»
There is no shortage of sustainable laptops on store shelves--Apple claims that its MacBooks make up the world's green line of notebooks and Sony has a laptop with a plastic enclosure made out of recycled CDs--but now Lenovo claims ...READ»
Computing giant Lenovo hopes that within five years, up to 20% of its revenues may come from mobile Internet devices. Could Lenovo buy Palm?Lenovo's president and COO Rory Read made his points pretty clearly--he noted that his company ...READ»
The struggling smartphone maker Palm has, according to Bloomberg sources, put itself up for sale. Potential buyers include HTC and Lenovo, and a sale to either would completely shake up the smartphone industry.READ»
2010 has already been dubbed the "year of the tablet." And while the tablet PC concept is not new, the hype surrounding Apple's imminent iSlate--and the craze for touchscreens--has put the slab-form computer front and center. Every ...READ»
Steve Ballmer had a lot to say about Windows 7 during his keynote address at the start of CES 2010, and gave a sneak peek at the swanky machines it is--and will be--running on. And that's about all he did.
From a techy-consumer's ...READ»
The Consumer Electronics Show doesn't really kick off until tomorrow, but already there's a host of new stuff out. Today there's a mystifyingly wonderful crop of new gear that seems to be preemptive competition for Apple's ...READ»
