Developing the Concept of the Personal Computer While the Altair 8800 may have been the first commercially successful personal computer as we now understand the term, by most definitions, it wasn't ...

40 years ago this month, Popular Electronics, a Ziff Davis publication, ushered in the era of the personal computer with its cover story on the Altair 8800. Over the next few days, I'll be posting a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This week’s milestones in the history of technology include ...

In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a ...

March 16, 2009 Although obviously best known for its cars and motorbikes, BMW also creates yachts, aircraft and trains, and has now turned its design expertise to a computer gaming tower with the ...

Hot from the "hang on, why haven't I seen that before?" department comes ARM's video demo of what a Mobile Computer Concept should be. Based on ARM's Cortex A9 processor with the ARM Mali 400 chipset ...

At Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, I got the chance to see the development process for two prototype devices that could be an early look at what might be coming next for computers.