Makers of portable computers have spent the past 20-odd years striving to build systems that answer users' cries for "smaller, faster, cheaper." To a large extent, they have succeeded. One notable ...

With smartphones in our pocket and access to thousands of apps, we have become the mobile generation -- performing a wide range of information intensive activities on mobile phones wherever we are -- ...

The success of portable computing this decade is due at least in part to the pioneering work of many companies in decades past. Apple recently launched the iPad 2 to tremendous fanfare, and the device ...

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