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2014 may be the year when tablets muscle into dominance in the computer marketplace Next year, tablets will account for almost 50 percent of total client personal computer shipments globally, according to estimates by Canalys. Desktops, notebooks and tablets having a diagonal screen size of at least 7 inches are categorized as PCs.

I can hear the virtual voices screaming: "No, there is no way -- he isn't an engineer, he is an actor." Yet in a way, so was Steve Jobs. If you've read any of the stories about what he was like in person, you already know that at the start, Steve was a hippie who rarely bathed, cried a lot, and didn't like shoes. If you compare that Steve Jobs to his on-stage persona, it's clear that when he was pitching a product he was acting.

For e-commerce companies, the time has finally arrived. After months of extensive preparations, the holidays are here and the top business priority is to drive conversions Many of these companies have applied valuable lessons from 2012 and previous years by implementing basic Web performance-optimization techniques such as content compression, cach...

iBuyPower is working on prototypes of a commercial Steam machine, Engadget reported Valve recently announced that it was working with multiple OEMs to bring Steam gaming machines to market in 2014. All will run its Linux-based SteamOS....

This story was originally published on July 9, 2013, and is brought to you today as partof ourBestofECT News series Shopping for groceries might not be top of mind for many rail commuters -- at least, not until they see one of Peapod's virtual supermarkets in a train station....

This story was originally published on Aug. 19, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university of science and technology, have teleported information from one end of a superconducting circuit to another -- a distance of 6mm....

The United States National Security Agency has seeded 50,000 networks worldwide with malware, according to a report published last week in Dutch newspaper NRC. That malware was designed to steal sensitive information, NRC claimed, citing documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as proof....

Perhaps to celebrate the anniversary of last year's U.S.-China telecoms showdown, Beijing has launched an antitrust probe into U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm The announcement comes on the heels of comments from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs in which he told The Wall Street Journal that the company was "definitely seeing increased pressure" in China because of ...

Law enforcement officials and mobile phone makers last week knocked heads with wireless carriers over planting "kill switches" in smartphones Led by a district attorney in San Francisco and attorney general in New York, law enforcement would like all smartphones to contain firmware that allows a consumer to "brick" a mobile that's lost or stolen....

Retailers have been trying for years to expand Black Friday shopping with extended hours and prolonged sales, and this year that trend appears to be reaching new heights, with some stores even planning to be open early on Thanksgiving Day That's not a universal rule, however. Glenview, Ill.-based Abt Electronics, for instance, is taking a different...

OK, we survived Dreamforce and that has enabled us to limp home exhausted by all the information we accumulated and the parties we attended just in time for the holidays. I have a lot of thoughts about the show. If I try to share most of them, the result will be a stream-of-conscious rant that will make little sense, so some discipline is in order...

If you've ever used Google's free Chrome browser, you may be aware that it's closely related to another, similarly named Google project called "Chromium." Chrome and Chromium share a heavy portion of their core browser code, but Chrome is a proprietary Google product, while Chromium is open source. Both serve Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms,...

Kubo is a cargo-carrying electric scooter now seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter that offers potential far beyond the realm of personal transportation Ask any e-commerce analyst what the hottest upcoming trend will be in e-commerce circles next year -- the Amazons and eBays of this world -- and you're likely to get the same answer: Same-day or eve...

New York University researchers have designed a flying machine that appears to use the same pulsating motions as a jellyfish Leif Ristroph and colleague Stephen Childress wanted to create a small robot that could serve practical purposes such as monitoring traffic. Ristroph presented their creation at the American Physical Society's Division of Flu...

Samsung has unveiled the latest model in its line of phablets, the Galaxy Grand 2, bearing a string of enhancements over its predecessor The company's latest device has a 5.25-inch screen with a 16:9 ratio. The TFT (thin-film-transistor) screen is 0.25 inches larger than the previous model and has a 1280 x 720 resolution, compared with the 800 x 48...

Following on from the launch of its Moto X in August, Motorola Mobility is taking the concept of building smartphones to order to the next level through a partnership with 3D Systems The company is "looking for some edge in the market. You've got to have something different to attract people away from the big brands," Carl Howe, a research vice pre...

Workers at Amazon in Germany are striking yet again in an effort to coax the company into better pay and conditions Hundreds of workers at two Amazon centers, one in Bad Hersfeld and one in Leipzig, walked out on Monday....

In his first meeting with investors since taking over as Intel's chief executive officer in May, Brian Krzanich presented a road map for the company's future Intel will make a stronger push into mobile devices, expand its foundry business to build processors for other chip makers, and move into additional new markets, Krzanich indicated last week.

Red costume, white beard, ruddy cheeks, cheery voice and smiling, twinkly-eyed charm -- all are indispensable tools for any self-respecting Santa Claus. Nowadays, however, there's a lot more than mere lovable magic going on in the business of being Mr. Claus Modern Santa has gone high-tech, and today he's all about things like Web landing pages, sm...

Zoho recently deepened the functionality in its CRM suite and upgraded Zoho Support with high-end and high-capacity telephony and mobile-app features for large businesses. The moves are part of the company's strategy of migrating upstream to service a larger customer base "Zoho started off marketing our CRM application to small businesses," Raju Ve...