Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts.

Today Apple held its previously announced "Spotlight Turns to Notebooks" event. And besides new notebooks and new chipsets, they gave us more.

If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That's because ever-increasing processing speeds are creating more and more heat, which has to go somewhere — in this case, into your lap.

Dell today officially unveiled the Inspiron Mini 9. This small, easy-to-carry device stands ready to connect teens, tweens, travelers and “Tweeters” to their online world be it surfing the Web, chatting with friends, blogging, streaming content, uploading photos or enjoying favorite online videos, music and games.

Telford, England, 2nd September 2008 - GETAC Inc., a leading, specialist rugged mobile computer manufacturer, has today unveiled details of its new B300 fully rugged notebook that has been designed to resist salt erosion in and around oceanic and coastal environments.

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students Worldwide

We have known for some time that Microsoft was working hard at getting Windows XP slimmed down and running on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO-1. They've apparently succeeded as on Thursday Microsoft and the OLPC Foundation announced an agreement that will make Windows XP available on XO laptops.

A pair of thieves were caught by the tech-savvy owner of one of the laptops they pilfered, using the "Back to My Mac" remote desktop software to find her Mac and take control of it - and to take a picture of one of the thieves, as well.