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Asus plans to unveil a new ultrabook at Computex later this month. The company says the Asus Zenbook Infinity will be 14 percent thinner than other notebooks in the Zenbook line, thanks to new materials. The Asus Zenbook Infinity has an aluminum and glass…

Jolla Mobile has unveiled the first smartphone designed to run the company's open source Sailfish operating system. It's expected to ship in some European markets by the end of the year for €399, which is about $513 US. Sailfish is a Linux-based operating…

Sharp isn't the only company working on 3200 x 1800 pixel laptop displays. Samsung just announced that it's showing off a 13.3 inch laptop display with that same screen resolution with that same screen resolution. Since Sharp's model is actually a 14 inch…

Barnes & Noble's NOOK Simple Touch is an inexpensive eBook reader with an E Ink display. It's designed for reading ebooks and not much else... yet. While the NOOK Simple Touch features WiFi, all you can do with it right note is browse the B&N book store and…

Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to use devices with support for a range of sensors and motors. Now…

Acer's first 8 inch Windows 8 tablet is expected to launch soon for $380. While Acer hasn't officially announced the launch details, the company has confirmed that it's working on Windows 8 tablets with screens smaller than 10 inches, and the Acer Iconia W3…

The Asus 1015E is a tiny notebook computer with a tiny price tag. It features a 10 inch display and sells for under $299. In fact, many stores are selling the little laptop for as little as $249. That's not a bad price for a 2.8 pound computer with an Intel…

Last year Google introduced a media player called the Nexus Q which was designed to let you stream content from your phone or tablet (and from the internet) to your TV. It didn't last long. But now it looks like Google may be getting ready to launch a new…

Dell is getting ready to be the first big name PC maker (in the West) to release a stick-sized device that you can plug into a TV to turn it into an Android computer. It's called Project Ophelia, and Dell first introduced the concept at CES in January. Now PC…

Linux Mint is an easy-to-use operating system that's based on Ubuntu Linux. It comes pre-loaded with support for Flash, Java, and a range of media codecs that you'd have to install yourself with Ubuntu. While Linux Mint supports a range of desktop…

Google's Native Client software lets developers write web apps that act more like native desktop apps. For instance, Quake, DOOM, and DOSBox have all been ported to run in the Chrome web browser using Native Client (NaCL). Now Google has released a tool called…

Sony is adding another device to its AOSP program. The company already offers Android Open Source Project code for a few of its latest smartphones. Now you can also get software based on Google's Android source code for the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. That makes it…

The Asus Q200E is a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6 inch touchscreen display, an Intel Core i3 processor, a 500GB hard drive, and a low price. The laptop typically sells for around $400 and up, but today Rakuten is offering a refurbished model for $350. It has…

Dell plans to launch at least two new ultrabooks under its business-friendly Latitude line this year. That's according to a leaked product roadmap which appears to show the company's plan for Latitude laptops through the end of the year. The ultrabooks will…

Ramos is updating its W30HD tablet with a new "pro" model sporting a faster processor. The Ramos W30HDPro features a 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, a Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core CPU, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. It's available for…

NVIDIA's SHIELD handheld game console is a portable gaming system which looks like a 5 inch display tacked onto an Xbox-style controller. It's powered by a Tegra 4 processor, runs Google Android, and has a 720p display. While NVIDIA had planned to open general…

Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It's due out by the end of the month. Now it looks like Samsung might have a slightly larger, slightly more powerful model in the works…

The Google I/O opening keynote came and went without the announcement of any new hardware (unless you count the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android). But that doesn't mean we won't see some new devices from Google soon. A sharp-eyed reddit user noticed that…

Laptops with 1080p displays are so last year. A handful of notebooks including the MacBook Pro with Retina, Google Chromebook Pixel and Toshiba Kirabook already have higher-than-full-HD screens. Now Sharp wants to step things up a notch with its new IGZO…

Most major PC makers may have left the netbook market for dead. But Chinese vendors have continued cranking out cheap mini-laptops with 10 inch or smaller displays. Some models run Windows, but many of the cheapest feature inexpensive ARM chips and run Android…