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The touchscreens prevalent on vast numbers of laptops awaiting your hard-earned dollars in consumer electronics stores accommodate highly suitable new tools for creating art. The tactile nature of the screen, as opposed to the awkward mouse, makes sweeping strokes and other gestures a lot easier. Th...
Google and HP on Tuesday unveiled the latest addition to the Chromebook family: the HP Chromebook 11. Like its earlier counterparts, this Chromebook weighs next to nothing -- roughly 2 pounds -- and runs Google's Linux-based Chrome OS operating system. This new one, however -- priced at $279 -- come...
Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system may become an option on HTC's Android-based smartphones, Bloomberg reported. Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft's operating systems unit, made the request to HTC last month, according to unnamed sources, and will meet with senior HTC executives in Taiwan late...
Dell on Wednesday released new tablets and updates to its XPS line of laptops for geeks, less than three weeks after founder Michael Dell won a long and bitter battle to take the company private again. The company launched two Windows 8.1 tablets and two Android tablets under the revived "Venue" nam...
Microsoft on Monday announced the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. They are faster and have more battery life than their predecessors. "The crux of the matter for Microsoft remains the same," said Jeff Orr, a senior practice director at ABI Research, and that is "finding an audience that's inter...
Nokia has tweeted that it's doing something having to do with innovation on Oct. 22, but it won't say what or where. However, there's heavy speculation that the company set that date to unveil its much-delayed Lumia 1520 phablet. The phablet is rumored to have a 6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel HD screen. I...
Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish software developer that specializes in compression algorithms for mobile phones. AlgoTrim developed algorithms for "lossless" compression, whereby processing instructions in operating systems and applications are not only sped up but require less flash memory.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will begin rolling out Windows 8.1 to the general public on Oct. 18. Win 8.1 will be available as a free update for Windows 8 users through the Windows Store, and it will also be available at retail outlets and on new devices running the Windows OS. Windows 8...
BlackBerry 10 may have been the primary focus of its embattled maker in recent months, but on Tuesday the company revealed that its hopes for a turnaround don't rest solely on that new technology. Rather, BlackBerry announced the 9720, a handset that not only has the look and feel of its longstandin...
Android device owners who use Bitcoins may have their digital currency stolen because of a security flaw in Android, the Bitcoin Foundation has warned. The problem may lie in Android's implementation of the java.security.SecureRandom application programming interface in Java. It was first publicized...
Comedian and writer Andy Borowitz has risen to pretty heady comedic heights. His Borowitz Report, a satirical chronicle of daily news was picked up by The New Yorker and is frequently the Most Popular item on the high-brow site. Not everyone, however, gets the humor. Xinhua, the Chinese government's...
It's no secret that Windows 8 has met with only a lukewarm reception, but life in the tech world moves quickly, and now Windows 8.1 is on the way. If you've installed Windows 8, it's worth downloading the recently released free preview version of Windows 8.1. By doing so, you will be able to take a...
Ransomware has made the jump from personal computers to the Android world. Android.FakeAV.C, a new breed of ransomware, has been spotted in Asia -- almost half of it in India and Indonesia -- according to an alert by Bitdefender security researcher Liviu Arsene. Mobile ransomware works much like its...
Google on Wednesday unveiled a new Nexus 7 as part of its latest assault on the market for the connected living room. Another prong of that attack is Chromecast, a streaming content stick that plugs into a TV set's HDMI socket and lets users stream videos and other content seamlessly between the TV ...
Nokia has unveiled the Lumia 625, its latest Windows Phone 8 device and the one with the largest screen so far, 4.7 inches. There isn't much else to distinguish it from other models in the Lumia lineup, though, and its 1.2 GHz processor appears weak beside some high-end smartphones. The 625 "is anot...
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