Via aims to make customization easier and shorten design cycles by releasing the design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under open source license Via Technologies released the hardware design ...

An interesting new gaming laptop concept is hoping to raise funds on Kickstarter, bringing together a laptop-style form factor using top-spec desktop components. The unique project claims to be the ...

Emdoor Digital Technology might not be as big as Apple or Razer when it comes to laptops, but this lesser-known Chinese firm made a game-changing prototype business laptop, the xCaim, that won the iF ...

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

Here’s yet another doodad that nobody asked for: a laptop with a typical landscape screen that mechanically unrolls into a tall, portrait mode. It increases its vertical resolution so you can, say, ...

Fifth-year applied physics Ph.D. candidate Ben Bartlett, postdoctoral scholar Avik Dutt and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan proposed a new computer hardware design in November that could, ...

For those who find it impossible to sleep while crammed into an airplane seat, a long flight is a good chance to get some work done, although plopping a giant laptop onto a tiny seat tray can make ...

The past decade has been kind to the laptop. Few computing products have improved in so many ways, to the point where the modern laptop is a different breed of device completely from laptops of a ...