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CORTANA WILL BE ONE OF THE major features (go.pcworld.com/ new10) to come to Windows 10, and at least one PC vendor plans to treat her especially well. Toshiba's Windows 10 [...]

Lenovo, Chinese computing company acquired some part of IBM's PC unit. Lenovo will produce its new range of ThinkPad and ThinkCenter laptops.

The success of Toshiba's laptop and notebook computers can be attributed to business strategy as well as to the market and technological strategies. In terms of business strategy, Toshiba devised a strategic vision that helped promote cohesive management and opportunistic marketing. With regards to technology strategy, the company's utilization of 'back to the future' approach proved useful in gaining worldwide acceptance through implementation of intuitive market research.

Cheaper, Better, Faster are constant trends in desktop computing, although 'cheaper' only goes so far. If the same trends apply for portable computers, you should be able to buy a [...]

This second installment of EDN's Design It Right series on developing electronic products tells the stories of three computer-and-peripheral products. The Force CPU-2S is the first in a family of [...]

THE ELECTRONIC TRAVELER A screenwriter portraying a state-of-the-art business executive might click with a script about a 41-year-old Minneapolis computer-industry analyst named Gary Smaby. In an action-packed tale of endless [...]

Byline: Jon Gold A Canadian IT consultancy has announced that it will soon begin selling an Ubuntu laptop that 'never needs to be plugged in,' thanks to solar power. The [...]

Byline: Jon Gold The leak of what looks like an impressive, high-concept version of a Chromebook to the Internet at large has generated a lot of buzz, but there's plenty [...]

Traveling businesspeople who need the power of their office computers on the road can find it in the newest high-performance, feature-rich notebook computers. Outstripping their full-sized 486 desktop brothers, these [...]

The seemingly unquenchable thirst for unsubstantiated news concerning Apple products rasps on today with two separate reports predicting Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pros would soon be getting high-definition Retina displays. Mac-centric [...]

Apple could be extending its high-resolution Retina Display to MacBook Pros, according to a new report. 'Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution [...]

Acer's upcoming ultrabook laptop could hit the shelves as early as October, according to the latest reports. Acer is one of several OEMs that have said they plan to adopt [...]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly could be the first vendor to launch an 'ultrabook,' beating out Asus for the title. According to a report on the Taiwanese Website DigiTimes, HP could launch two [...]

Apple could be back in black, at least when it comes to the MacBook Air. 'Over the past week, we've received several anonymous tips claiming that at least some models [...]

Does Google's Chromebook threaten Windows' lock on enterprise computing? As revealed at Google I/O in San Francisco this week, Samsung and Acer will produce cloud-centric notebooks running the lightweight, Web-based [...]

Sony may be working on a lightweight Vaio Hybrid PC that can compete with Apple's skinny-minny MacBook Air. According to Sony Insider, the company is cooking up a notebook that [...]

Byline: Bob Brown Apple may be plotting a big MacBook Pro announcement as soon as next week, speculation fueled in part by an Intel ad. Apple Insider got the ball [...]

Computers running Google's Chrome Operating system won't ship to consumers until the second half of 2011, with netbooks slated to come from Samsung and Acer at that time. Google is [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Google's Chrome OS is moving closer to reality, but does Google's new operating system pose any threat to Windows? Take a quick tour of Google Chrome Microsoft [...]

Apple is notoriously reticent about providing information about upcoming products, but that doesn't stop the Apple faithful from speculating. The latest rumor making the rounds of Apple blogs predicts the [...]

Google's Chrome Operating System launch has been delayed, and the platform won't be available to launch on netbooks for at least the 'next few months.' Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed [...]

IBM, Canonical and Simmtronics Semiconductors have teamed up to deliver a netbook for emerging markets that features IBM cloud services and software for $190. The Simmbook will be available first [...]

Dell on Wednesday offered a peek at a "design concept" for a stylish, high-end laptop that could become the computer maker's next challenge to Apple's MacBook Air. A profile of […]

If PC maker Dell can grow its domain to include smartphones, then it shouldn't be too surprising that phone maker Nokia is ready to dabble in PCs. The world's leading […]

Authentec, a popular provider of smart fingerprint solutions, will be introducing a family of hardware and software solutions on Aug. 17. While biometric solutions have primarily focused on the enterprise, […]

Acer announced earlier this week that it's planning to release an Acer netbook with Google Android installed in the third quarter of 2009. It's a major announcement. Right now, Acer […]

While PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer have said they are looking to build netbooks that use Google's Android operating system, a Chinese company says it plans in the […]

Despite being midway through a medical leave, Steve Jobs is still actively involved in the operations of Apple, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal that cites people [...]

(Reuters)-Verizon Wireless will start selling a netbook-a cheaper, more basic version of a notebook-as early as next quarter, Bloomberg said, citing a person close to the project. The devices are […]

Apple is reportedly working on a 10-inch touch-screen PC, but, despite speculation that the company is getting ready to enter the netbook market, it's more likely Apple is planning a […]

Byline: Clive Akass Rising Asus plans £130 mini Asus plans to bring out a version of its Eee PC mini-laptop, costing less than $200 (around £130), according to company president [...]

Stung by criticism of Windows Vista, Microsoft may be hastening the release date of its next major computer operating system. To date, Microsoft has said that Windows 7 will be […]

Asustek reportedly plans to launch a mini-notebook with a touch screen early next year. The computer maker has not released many details, but Samsun Hu, general manager of Asustek's Eee […]

Gamma & Density, developer of Cinematographer's Color Correction Process (3cP), and da Vinci Systems are collaborating to ensure that 3cP is fully interoperable with Resolve and 2K Plus systems. Gamma [...]

Dell has confirmed that it has built a mini-notebook that would compete with similar ultra-portable machines from Hewlett-Packard and Asus. While acknowledging the upcoming product exists, Dell has declined to […]

Lenovo, best known in the U.S. for the ThinkPad business notebooks, said Friday it would officially launch an 11-inch consumer notebook next week. The U110 is the smallest member of […]

Microsoft and India's HCL Infosystems said they would work together to develop a Windows-based laptop PC that will be the cheapest available in any market worldwide. The system, called the […]

A teardown of the upcoming Eee PC 900, the 9-inch version of Asus' popular mini-notebook, was posted Wednesday on the Web. More than two dozen pictures, including photos of the […]