Brad Chacos

While Windows 8 has yet to woo consumers over to its finger-friendly interface en masse, Lenovo seems to have caught touch-screen fever in full force. A new, touch-equipped version of the ThinkPad X1 ...

Lenovo's U Series Ultrabook line is growing in more ways than one. The newly announced IdeaPad U510 Ultrabook follows the same general aesthetic and build of Lenovo's U310 and U410, but adds a 15.6-in...

With the steady stream of Windows 8 hybrids and thin-and-light Ultrabooks being trotted out these days, you have to wonder: have manufacturers forgotten about good old fashioned multimedia and gaming ...

Traditionally, you could have a sleek laptop or you could have a powerful laptop, but not both. Lenovo thinks it has found the happy medium with the IdeaPad Z400 and Z500, which the company claims are...

Current biometric authentication tools found on smartphones suffer from some drawbacks; fingerprint readers typically require additional hardware -- the original Motorola Atrix being one notable excep...

A Metro interface by any other name is still a Metro interface, but it would be nice if Microsoft would clue us in on what to call it now. The Redmond company unceremoniously dumped the Metro branding...

Every ounce counts when you're traveling abroad; unless you've got an Ultrabook, lugging a laptop around France's wine country can get pretty tiresome, pretty fast. Some Internet tasks just don't tran...

The third quarter numbers are in, and it's official: Lenovo is the new king of the worldwide PC market. No, wait! HP wants a recount. You see, these other official numbers have HP hanging on to its nu...

While Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion strive to introduce mobile-friendly features into desktop operating systems, mobile hardware itself is improving at such a rapid clip that it may soon reach simp...

Nokia's new cross-platform mapping service hit its first specific platform today with the launch of a free Nokia Here Maps app for iOS, which hopes to fill the gaping void left by a missing Google Map...

Microsoft seemed to scramble to put the finishing touches on Windows Phone 8 in the days before the operating system's launch, pushing the release of the OS's software development kit back to the day ...

Amazon already thoroughly controls the software ecosystem that flows through its Kindle Fire tablets, but a new report suggests that the company is working to expand that iron grip on the hardware sid...

The torrent of coincidental information pointing towards the impending launch of the iPhone 5 continues; AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all made moves suggesting a September 21st launch date, whi...

Do you use an older version of Internet Explorer? If so, be aware that a sizeable minority of the Internet thinks you're behind the times. Microsoft itself has a site dedicated solely to watching IE6 ...

The Android version of Gmail is already one of the better email apps around, but a couple of new additions in the upcoming Android 4.2 version of the app promise to make Google's messaging service mor...

Nokia isn't pulling any punches with its flagship new Windows Phone 8 handset. The company stuffed the stunningly designed Lumia 920 with appealing and forward-thinking features like wireless charging...

In a shareholder meeting this summer, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said the company was thinking about adding video chat to BBM when BlackBerry 10 hit the streets. Newly leaked slides seem to suggest the fe...

It's been less than a week since the the iPad mini reportedly shifted into the full-blown manufacturing stage, and a new report by the Wall Street Journal reveals just how massive that mass productio...

Have your iOS and Mac apps been behaving badly in recent days? You aren't the only one. The Verge claims that the super-stable Apple App Stores may, in fact, not be so stable at the moment after hea...

Facebook has been on a big buying spree over the past few months -- you have to do something with all those billions, after all -- and TechCrunch says the trend is set to continue with the social medi...

If you're drawn like a moth to the jaw-dropping Retina Display on Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro, but want your high-resolution beauty a form factor that's a little more discrete, you may just be in luck...

The failed merger with AT&T hasn't stopped Deutsche Telekom's wheeling and a-dealing with T-Mobile, and this morning, the company announced that it struck a deal that should be much more palatable...

The Windows 8 hybrids just keep on coming. At CEATEC, Panasonic's showing off its new AX series Ultrabook, a foldable laptop that transforms into an impromptu touch-powered all-in-one, sports a distin...

Subsidizing hardware prices in exchange for signing a two-year service contract may be the status quo for smartphones, but it hasn't carried over well to the tablet market, where far more people buy W...

Move over, Apple: Microsoft's foray into home-grown hardware may not begin and end with the impressively designed Surface tablet. A new report claims that the Redmond company could be setting its sigh...