Fourteen percent of U.S. online customers plan to buy a tablet computer within the next 12 months according to a new study from leading market research company Forrester Research. The 14 percent was ahead of the 13 percent planning to buy a laptop, 11 percent planning to buy an eBook reader, 8 percent...

Microsoft has decided to give every one of its employees a free smartphone running Windows 7 Phone, which could put the reported 10,000 iPhone users at Redmond in a quandary: which handset to use? The decision, which emerged from via the usual social media channels from the company’s Microsoft Global...

Windows 7 supports a multitouch interface out of the box, and a number of laptops have shipped with touch-enabled LCD screens. For the most part, multitouch has been useful only with Windows 7-specific applications or with third-party apps designed for the Windows 7 touch interface. Once you’ve played...

Dell Studio 17 (Model 1747): A Solid Design That Comes in a Wide Variety of Configurations With the average laptop, one sticky issue is the relatively small size of the display and keyboard–a necessary trade-off to keep users from suffering muscle strain while toting the notebook around. However, if...

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y460 laptop is probably the closest thing to a Transformer I’ll ever have my hands on. As tested, the Core i5-520M processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and the 64-bit version of Windows 7 together provide plenty of power — the vehicle form, so to speak, of the Y460. But flick a...