A laptop's portability makes it convenient--and an easy target for thieves.

Losing your laptop can be devastating, especially if you keep important documents and files on its hard drive, without a backup. Here are five ways to protect your laptop from being stolen (or from remaining st...

A two-day forced vacation from the MacBook Pro I normally use during work hours, necessitated by a logic board replacement, forced me to turn instead to a Hewlett-Packard notebook computer running Microsoft Windows.

The switch, plus last week's news about Apple Inc....

< Apple's new iPad looks and feels almost exactly like the iPad 2, until your turn it on and start using it. The retina display, which has more pixels than your standard HDTV, is a wonder, and app developers have been scrambling to update their products for it.

One of those apps is Infi...

Apple's latest iPad drew die-hard fans to stores in the U.S. and nine other countries Friday, many of whom lined up for hours to be among the first to buy one.

The third version of the iPad went on sale there at 8 a.m. local time, with 25 other countries getting it ...

Do a thorough backup before hitting the road, and carry a flash drive for backing up new and changed files on the road. Keep the flash drive in your pocket, not in the Notebook Computer bag. (You don't want your backup stolen with the Notebook Computer.)

I recommend TrueCrypt for encrypt...

An attractive option for many reasons, though, is to buy the laptop with Linux preloaded, as I've noted before. You typically pay a little bit more, but you also avoid any headaches that may arise from getting everything to "just work."

Buying hardware with Linux preloaded also helps en...

Wozniak (pictured), HP's battery guru, has to deal with requests from all sides. Industrial designers want thin batteries in thin laptops. Marketing people also want lighter weight. But engineers like Wozniak can only show the designers what they have to cur...

People can inadvertently purchase a fake or sub-standard phone, through no fault of their own, by trying to find a cheaper price for a phone - especially on the internet," said Michael Milligan, Secretary General of the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF).

"E...

Chinese mobile giant Huawei became the largest Chinese smartphone provider by selling 20 million smartphones globally in 2011. But it has a more aggressive ambition - to climb to the list of world's top three smartphone providers, making its mobile phone product line as su...

The Welsh Government has been accused by 20 scientists of giving children inaccurate information about using mobile phones.

According to the scientists, an official information leaflet adopts an inappropriate tone and plays down the potential health threats posed to youngsters by mobile ...