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What is USB Type C and Why We are Excited About It USB Type-C is an USB interface defined by USB Implementers Forum, Inc., creators of USB technology. Welcome to USB Type-C! Apple’s new MacBook has implemented the USB Type-C port, which will...

We knew it had to be too good to be true. With the OLPC guys struggling to get down to the $100 price point, a ten dollar laptop should have sounded outside of the realm of possibility. We should have known. After much hullabaloo over the possibil...

Officials with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro began requiring every student have a laptop in 2005 but said the school can no longer afford to provide grant money to students who can’t afford one. Often referred to as a lifeline or ...

The news no doubt had Nicholas Negroponte and the lads over at the OLPC foundation quaking in their boots. The XO Laptop was already getting its ass kicked by the barrage of netbooks that hit the market shortly after its launch and Intel’s rival educ...

If the $2,000 Nano from Tata Motors raised the hackles of European and U.S. carmakers, the latest plans from India to build a laptop computer costing just $10 should have the likes of Apple and Dell weeping. On Wednesday, the Indian higher educati...

With company icon Steve Jobs a no-show at the 25th annual Macworld, Apple on Tuesday unveiled a radically new pricing plan for music sold through its online iTunes store and said it would let consumers play iTunes song downloads on just about any dev...

Netbooks have their appeal--tiny budget machines with just enough oomph to run Windows XP. Ultraportables have horsepower in spades, but they cost too much to suit some people. This year we're going to see a whole new category of notebook take shape ...

At CES 2009 this week, Lenovo is launching an all-in-one desktop and three new notebooks, all geared to multimedia entertainment and gaming. The Chinese-based computer company, spun off from IBM a few years back, is also upgrading its W700 ThinkPad w...

What could be better than a small, low-cost, easy to use netbook laptop? How about a small, low-cost, easy to use netbook laptop with a swivelling touchscreen? Conceptually similar to the recently updated Intel Classmate PC, the new Eee PC T91 has...

CES 2009 is fast approaching, and rumours of new laptops are everywhere. This week though, the focus is on Sony. Though enterprising news outlets have dug up hints at new products from the likes of Dell and Lenovo weeks before the big gadget exhib...

Lenovo has bumped its Idea brand of personal computers. The new PCs push the envelope in the pursuit of thinner and more stylish designs, and combine these attributes with unique features like facial recognition and high-definition entertainment tech...

3. The Secure Erase utility is quicker than DBAN, taking about half the time a block-erasing utility would to delete the same data. It uses the built-in Disk Drive Secure Erase command that's part of almost every hard drive's firmware. 4. When not...

It is terrifyingly easy to give up your personal data - regardless of whether or not you're a gin-sodden civil servant with a laptop full of national secrets. Where there's muck, there's brass. Bin an unshredded bank statement and, even if you've ...

Shortly after AMD announced the netbook-friendly Yukon platform at CES 2009, HP was the first out of the gate with a notebook including the new Athlon Neo processor, the HP Pavilion dv2. A second, the dv3, is targeted at the mainstream. The HP Pav...

To keep their growth coming, Acer, Asustek and others vying for laptop dominance are increasingly looking to segmentation, taking aim at the wide range of computer buyers. The runaway success of low-cost mini notebooks, initially derided by many i...

The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamouring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a single desktop model...

All of HP's 12-inch (and under) laptops have either been tablets, netbooks, or products aimed at the business crowd—until now. The Pavilion DV2 is HP's new 12-inch consumer laptop that is under an inch thick. The DV2 is powered by a 1.6GHz AMD Ath...

Sales of laptop computers around the world surpassed the sales of desktop consoles for the first time in the third quarter of 2008, according to figures released Tuesday by research firm iSuppli. Laptop shipments grew 40 per cent to 38.6 million u...

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, best known for scoring Super Bowl victories and supermodels, is buying 1,500 laptops as part of the One Laptop Per Child program to send low-cost computers to children in developing nations. According to a ...

Raise your hand if this has happened to you: You're typing along on your laptop, when suddenly you look up and see that your cursor has jumped somewhere else in your document, resulting in seriously fouled-up text. That maddening occurrence is usu...