Although intended to enable people to work on the go, many of the

If you’ve used a Windows 7 laptop with a “multitouch” touchpad, you’ve likely been a little disappointed to see that it offers only a few gestures: pinch to zoom, twist to rotate, two-finger scrolling, maybe three-finger swiping. The functionality is handy, but...

Windows 8 uses even less memory than does Windows 7. Microsoft illustrated how the first Windows 7 release used about 540 MB of memory, while Windows 8 uses slightly more than half that, or 281 MB. This means you can run Windows 8 on an older netbook (with just 1GB of RAM) and see better perform...

Most notebook ODMs will ramp up the production of ultrabooks for their branded PC vendors in the fourth quarter, with Quanta Computer to begin volume production of HP's ultrabook models in November, according to industry sources.

An array of Sandy Bridge-based ultrabooks will hit the mar...

Sales of notebook computers during the back-to-school rush this year beat expectations, new data from market research firm NPD Group found. While sales of Windows laptops continued to slide compared to last year, the decline was significantly less severe than in ...

About one in eight people around the world can now connect to the Internet wherever, and whenever, they want to.

A U.N. report released Thursday has found that active mobile broadband subscriptions surged last year, reaching 872 million worldwid...

The laptop sports an 11.6-inch LED display, measures in at a little less than an inch thick, and weighs about 3.5 lbs. The DM1 is finished with a special type of soft-touch rubber that is more durable thanks to a unique rubber printing method. It comes packed with Beats Audio, and has a HP TrueV...

So far, there’s been a pretty clear dividing line between laptops and tablets. But some of the key distinctions may not last, at least if some of the latest technologies from Intel and Microsoft pan out as advertised.

Intel, for instance, on Wednesday gav...

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have begun handing out the first of an estimated 6.8 million free laptops to schoolchildren.

All students in government-funded secondary schools and colleges will be eligible for a $292 laptop.

The five-year, $2bn programme i...

A suspected burglar has been arrested after a student activated tracking software installed on her laptop.

Emma Partington turned on the computer programme, which she had downloaded to her laptop, after discovering she had been the victim of a burglary in Bristol.

Unbeknown to th...