Electrical and computer engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating less-expensive, low-power embedded computing devices useful in everything from ...

Here are a few ways the Raspberry Pi outperforms desktops and laptops, from tiny power draw to safe sandboxes for ambitious ...

Microsoft Thursday said it would continue to offer via OEMs Windows XP Home for ultra-low-cost computers until 2010 or when the next version of the operating system ships. Microsoft Thursday said it ...

Are you a nonprofit, sole-proprietorship business, low-income remote worker or student in need of laptops? There’s an area nonprofit that has been making refurbished computers available for years and ...

Nvidia may develop an integrated x86-based chip for use in low-cost computers, an Nvidia executive said this week, a move that would step up its rivalry with Intel. Nvidia is considering developing an ...

Low-cost laptops don't pack enough power to run Windows Vista, so Microsoft must either revamp its OS strategy or concede that growing market segment to Linux As the release of low-cost laptops based ...

One Laptop per Child, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, recently announced that notebook production for children in developing countries has already begun, marking a new era of low-cost computing for ...

This machine is the brainchild of digital visionary Nicholas Negroponte, the former head of the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The XO Laptop shows what you can do when you don ...

ViewSonic Corp., which designs and sells computer monitors, flat TVs and other display products, is getting into the cutthroat computer business. The company, which is based just across the county ...

LONDON — Citing its strategy to offer consumers more affordable computing options, Linux-based software provider Lindows.com Inc. rolled out a new $449 flat-panel-monitor PC last week. The PC adds to ...