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Apple won’t be launching converged tablets, notebooks… yet

Apple makes a lot of money selling touchscreen tablets, smartphones, and portable media devices. In fact, the company now makes more money from iOS products than it does from pricey laptop and desktop computers running OS X. So when you look at the latest versions of OS X which offer support for full-screen apps and […]

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Asus Zenbook Prime ultrabook with 1080p screen spotted

Asus is preparing to introduce its second generation Zenbook line of ultrabooks. The original Zenbook UX21 and UX31 were the first thin and light laptops to meet Intel’s ultrabook specifications when they launched in late 2011. So what’s next? Higher resolution displays. Engadget Chinese got an early glimpse at two new ultrabooks from Asus. The […]

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Firefox 12 for Windows introduces silent updates

Mozilla Firefox is taking another page out of the Google Chrome handbook. Not only does Mozilla’s web browser now include tabs at the top of the screen and a rapid release schedule. It also installs updates in the background without asking you to do anything — assuming you’re running Windows. Firefox 12 hit the streets […]

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Ivy Bridge ultrabooks coming in June

Intel launched its third-generation Core family of processors this week. But all of the new Ivy Bridge chips available at launch are quad-core processors designed for desktop or high-end laptop computers. During yesterday’s launch event, Intel executives said dual-core ultrabook processors would be coming in a few months. Now Intel product manager Scott Pendrey has […]

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Long-awaited Google Drive launches, here’s how it works

For almost as long as I’ve been writing about technology, there have been rumors that Google was preparing to launch some sort of a cloud storage service called Google Drive. Over the last few years that started to look less and less likely as Google instead gave users large amounts of cloud storage for email, […]

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Unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus now available from Google for $399

Google is selling smartphones again. The company opened up a Devices section in the Google Play Store. Right now the only device available is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, but you’ll notice that “devices” is plural… suggesting that additional phones or tablets could follow. The one device that is available for purchase is a pretty […]