With booming and much-hyped markets for smartphones and tablets, you might think the chip industry would be doing well. It isn't. Gartner reckons semiconductor revenues will fall by 3 percent this year as PC production falls by 2.5 percent.
The Asus E201 VivoBook is a cheap way to try Windows 10S, if that's what you want to do. Upgrade it to Windows 10 Pro and it becomes a solid 11.6in notebook for schools or for use in the field.
China produced more than a billion mobile phones in the first 11 months of 2012, according to MIIT. Its table also includes production numbers for PCs, TVs, cameras and other devices, but not tablets….
With the Asus Transformer Book T100 Chi going on sale in the UK today, I spent the weekend trying one. It's a big improvement on the current T100TA 2-in-1 Windows 8.1 detachable, at some extra cost, but shares some of its limitations.
Smartphones should soon be able to charge themselves using transparent Wysips Crystal photovoltaic panels bonded into their screens. And if the idea takes off, tablets and eventually whole buildings could follow....
The world's first "emotional" humanoid robot offers companionship, but SoftBank is about to launch an enterprise version, Pepper for Biz, which might link with IBM's Watson. Would that work for you?
Informa is predicting healthy sales of Smart TV sets, but they're still not smart enough, as Apple, Google and Microsoft eye the prospects of a joined-up market for "three screens and a cloud"…
The latest Fixya Report reveals the main complaints from the owners of the most popular smartwatches in the US, including Pebble, Samsung and Sony models
Lenovo has floated theidea of building a "classic" ThinkPad, which should obviously have a great keyboard, a matte screen and removable batteries, like all the best laptops in this venerable line. The X220 would be a good place to start...
This year's Tony Sale Award, presented by the Computer Conservation Society (CCS), has been shared by the restoration of two IBM 1401 transistor-based computers and the Free University of Berlin's virtual reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's mechanical Z1.
