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Client computer market would have shrunk without tablets

Apple is now the world's leading personal computer seller, having pushed past HP in Q4 2011, market watcher Canalys said today.?

Catch it if you can

Cut-price 32GB Android tablet, anyone? Dixons is now pricing the 32GB Motorola Xoom at £249 - if you can find one.?

Paperback swiper

Korean researchers have developed an app which makes reading e-books more like flicking through the pages of the real thing.?

Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discounts

As if the joy of working for Apple wasn't reward enough, all Apple employees will now get a $500 discount off Macs and $250 off iPads.?

Buyers offered patches, refunds, extended warranties

Asus has begun rolling out a firmware update for its Eee Pad Transformer Prime that some owners are suggesting goes some way to solve the tablet's GPS problems.?

'Third content ecosystem' to beat iTunes?

How many Kindle Fires did Amazon ship during the last few months of 2011? The online retailer isn't saying, but ask Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, a broker, and he'll put the figure at 6m units.?

But maybe not a quad-core chip, after all

Apple's iPad 3 will not have the same processor as its predecessor.?

Prototype PCs test future of UI interaction

Microsoft and Asus have built a laptop with Kinect motion-sensing technology on board.?

Mobile World Congress outing for Ice Cream Sarnie tab?

Are ten-inch tablets too small for you? Rumour has it Samsung will introduce an 11.6in Galaxy Tab during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show next month.?

Netbooks cop a hiding

Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.?

...and its fall at the hands of smartphones, tablets

A map of the rise and rise of the personal computer over the past 30-odd years shows that the platform's popularity may have at long last peaked.?

Pandas might eat the fans

"What we do with an old bamboo makes everybody cheer," sang Caractacus Potts, who would no doubt be impressed at what fellow inventors use the material for nowadays.?

TF300T snapped

A previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.?

No Windows Starter for the suits

HP clearly thinks there's still mileage in the netbook - many of its rivals don't - at the very least as a business device. It has launched a new model, the Mini 1104, to prove it.?

Strong demand driven by higher res displays

The Western world will continue to lead demand for tablets over the next six years, with growth driven by ever higher screen resolutions.?

More of a shunt than a glide

Average broadband speeds in Blighty are on the up, communications watchdog Ofcom concluded in a report published this morning.?

Stats show tablet's usage storming ahead

Amazon's Kindle Fire has grabbed more than a third of the overall Android tablet usage activity in less than three months on sale.?

Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban to remain in force

Apple's demand that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned from sale in Germany has been once again confirmed by a German court.?

Volumes of demand

Tablet and e-book reader ownership almost doubled in the US over Christmas.?

Touchscreen desktop entertainer

Consumers too price-wary for skinny tech, says analyst

Ultrabooks are still too darn pricey for punters, with the new skinny laptops' average selling price during Q4 2011 63 per cent higher than that of regular notebooks.?

TV spectrum networking != 802.11

Don't call wireless networks that operate at frequencies formerly reserved for TV transmissions "Wi-Fi", the owner of the brand has warned.?

Prior art to invalidate Apple patent

The Munich Regional Court has chucked out an Apple request to impose a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and on the South Korean giant's Galaxy Nexus smartphone.?

Gratis gadget if you upload your Android app

RIM is offering software coders free tablets if they'll make their Android apps available through its PlayBook app store.?

Skates out, slates in

Toy Fair 2012  Here at the Toy Fair 2012, the fact technology dominates kids' entertainment is clear as day. Inspiration Works aims to capitalise on this trend with a tablet specifically targeted towards nippers.?

But Asus denies tablet problems

Asus has denied that its Eee Pad Transformer Prime is suffering from the quality issues one retailer has claimed have necessitated withdrawing the Android tablet from sale.?

Freshly squeezed fondleslab, anyone?

Today's fondleslab rumor 'pour les nuls'

Amazon France may have leaked the release date for Apple's next iteration of its überpopular fondleslab, the iPad.?

Poster campaigners

Product round-up  The most probable reasons for printing A3 documents are 1) posters or folded A4 newsletters, and 2) large photos. The types of printer needed for these two requirements are different. For posters and newsletters you want a machine intended primarily for plain paper print and it will save time if it can print duplex. For photos, you?re more interested in high quality output, often with more than four ink colours in the mix.?

We really wanna blow you some cable, dears

BT is on the lookout for around 1,000 residential buildings to sign up to a pilot to allow the national telco to test superfast broadband speeds in apartment blocks.?

Replacement boxes rolled out due to faulty chip

National telco BT has been sending letters out to its Infinity broadband customers saying that it will swap their modems for a better version for free, but failing to mention that the real reason for the generous offer is because they could be faulty.?

Fanboys happier than Fireboys?

iPad owners are happier with their tablets than folk with other fondleslabs are with theirs, recent research reveals.?

No s**t

Apple may be looking to incorporate the latest version of a new technology, the company's many fansites are reporting.?

NOT a MacBook clone

Review  Surely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but that?s one less than five.?

First Nvidia Tegra 3 five-core fondleslab

Review  It?s only been a little over six months since the original Eee Pad Transformer landed but Asus has already launched a new model that advances the breed to such an extent that the original model appears obsolete and with it every other 10in Tegra 2 Android tablet on the market.?

Whoops

Motorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.?

No beer? Tap for more

Samsung's 46in see-through LCD screen will go into production this month, paving the way for the transparent tech's appearance in ordinary folks' living rooms.?

Apple-flavoured future features leaked

Windows 8 and Microsoft's next major phone operating system will merge, if reports are correct.?

Toffs to tune in to iTech

Apple is set to open a shrunken version of its Apple Store in the toffs' shopping establishment, Harrods.?

'Year of the tablet? Nope. Year of the iPad'

If purchases of the successful-if-flawed Amazon Fire bit into iPad sales during the holiday season, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't see it.?

Enterprise iPhone activations dwarf rivals

Smartphone owners working for big business are activating far more iOS devices than they are Android ones - at least those who employed by firms using Good Technology's corporate email system are.?

Up to 58 per cent off launch cost

RIM has taken an axe to the prices it charges for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the UK - again.?

Fondleslabs to be a bigger seller for years

Ultrabooks will not outsell tablets, the next five years at least, though the new skinny laptop category will experience unit-shipment growth three times as fast as the tablet.?

Denies it knowingly sold dangerous kit

HP has coughed up $425,000 to lay to rest allegations made by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that it sold lithium ion laptop batteries it knew were dangerous.?

Hang on, it's only a Samsung...

Can this be the world's most expensive laptop??

Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?

Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.?

But sells so many iPads it needn't care

Apple may have topped the US smartphone chart in Q4 2011, thanks to the iPhone 4S, but it needs a revamped iPad if it's to reverse the trend in the tablet market.?

Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?

Review  While currently every notebook manufacturer seems to offering the thinnest, lightest and easiest to carry around notebook ever, in a bizarre way, it?s quite refreshing to find a company wandering off message and offering notebooks at the other end of the scale. Enter Eurocom?s Panther 2.0, the heaviest, most amazingly specified, most expensive and without doubt the fastest performing notebook I?ve ever come across in over ten years of laptop testing.?

Gingerbread do you?

Fujitsu has outed a non-descript 7in Android tablet that it'll be pitching at big business when the gadget goes on sale later this month.?

Eight-bits and pieces

You can pick up the real thing cheaply enough on eBay, but that hasn't stopped retro-computing fan and Lego nut from knocking up a version out of the plastic bricks.?