Apple's move to offer free keyboard replacements on MacBooks and prioritization on repairs amounts to some insurance for customers' collective piece of mind.
For many companies, subsidizing the Kindle Tablet wouldn't make much sense, but Amazon has unique assets. Here's a look at the numbers.
The One Laptop Per Child Project won't be doing Windows. Ken Fisher at Ars Technica reports that the OLPC project (blog focus) isn't doing Windows.
Corning launched its Gorilla Glass NBT, which is designed for touch notebooks. Corning could do well, but needs Windows 8 to fuel an upgrade cycle.
Toys R Us released a list of what it sees as the hottest toys this holiday season and the usual suspects were there: Hannah Montana, Legos, Star Wars figures and the Wii. And then there's the 7-inch Asus Eee PC.
Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with other applications running in the background--without sacrificing power and performance.
Apple on Tuesday moved to address a weakened consumer and its statement on a its refreshed MacBook lineup is telling. Since when does a premium brand like Apple worry about price and making its notebooks "far more affordable?
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched its first multi-touch notebook for consumers.The TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC was modeled after HP's desktop version of the same name (statement, Techmeme).
The MacBook Air fell in two minutes at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN.According to Infoworld, Charlie Miller won the $10,000 prize.
Dell on Tuesday rolled out its revamped lineup of nine new Latitude and Precision laptops and trumpeted longer batter life and designs that appeal to the so-called digital nomad--the person roaming the airport for a coveted outlet to plug in his laptop.The company said the new lineup was designed with the help of 4,000 users and IT pros via its Ideastorm site.