Acer’s bizarre new Aspire R7 PC looks a whole lot like the Starship Enterprise

Acer is going off the rails and into the world of Star Trek with its Aspire R7 all-in-one computer.

PC shipments post biggest quarterly sales drop ever — the IDC blames Windows 8

PC shipments fell off the proverbial cliff in the first quarter of 2013, according to IDC, with their biggest drop ever in recorded history.

Google brings Chromebooks to the world (or at least more of it)

After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.

Windows 8 pays off big time in Lenovo’s latest quarter

Is Lenovo immune to the PC market slowdown? PC shipments of 14.1 million say that's the case.

Acer: Windows 8 has been a big dud, but Chromebooks rock

Windows 8 hasn't done much for Acer, whose PC sales didn't get a boost from the OS's launch.

Acer may launch $99 Android tablet in early 2013

Acer is planning to launch a $99 tablet in the beginning of next year, according to anonymous sources for the Wall Street Journal.

The 7-inch device will run the Android operating system (version 4.1, aka Jelly Bean) and will …

Google prepping touch-compatible Nexus Chromebooks — and massively ramping production

Google's Android mobile OS is touch from the bottom up. So wouldn't you expect Google's ChromeOS to be touchable as well?

Apple and Microsoft could make 600% more from Android than Google in 2013

Google's mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars, with over 75 percent market share, but Apple and Microsoft could be making more from Android than Google -- up to 600 percent more next year.

Europe and Asia adopting Windows 8 at double U.S. rate (plus more juicy Windows 8 data)

Windows 8 crashes 55 percent less and is 84 percent less frustrating than Windows 7, according to a new report.

Apple jump in global slump: Macbook sales up 30%, overall notebook sales down 4.5%

Apparently, Apple sells more than products preceded by the letter "I."

Windows 8 tablets late? Blame Intel (updated)

Now is a horrible time for Intel to delay Windows 8 tablets with the latest processors -- but that's exactly what's happening, according to Bloomberg.

Check out the Intel-based Windows 8 tablets from seven companies (photo gallery)

These tablets all run full PC applications. That's because they all have Intel processors and Windows 8.

Acer’s snappy Intel-based Windows 8 tablet: up close and personal (video)

David Hwang of Acer shows off his company's new convertible tablet-laptop today at Intel's tablet event.

Intel sets stage for new tablet announcements from HP, Dell, Acer and many others

At an event in San Francisco next week, Intel will show off the latest crop of Windows 8 devices running on its chips.

Google love triangle forces Acer to nix Chinese smartphone launch

Pressure from Google caused Acer to cancel the launch of its CloudMobile A800 smartphone, which uses a operating system that competes with Android.

Acer CEO warns Microsoft about Surface tablet (translation: Acer is terrified of Surface)

It was only a matter of time before Microsoft's hardware partners began publicly criticizing the Surface tablet, Microsoft's first stab at building its own computing hardware.

Acer: Microsoft will fail if it copies Apple’s hardware strategy

 

We’ve seen a ton of reactions to Microsoft’s Surface tablet, but one group of companies has remained fairly mute — Microsoft’s hardware partners.

Acer, the world’s fourth-largest PC vendor, is breaking that silence.

“I don’t think it will be successful …

Hardware partners didn’t hear squat about Microsoft Surface until public announcement

Microsoft didn’t bother giving its long list of hardware partners much of a heads up on the recently announced Microsoft Surface tablet, according to Reuters.

The immediate implications of Microsoft’s own tablet is that it brings the tech giant into …

Chrome OS gets a facelift, proves Google can’t always get its way

Google’s Chrome OS has always been about the web — indeed, the first version of the operating system was literally just a Chrome web browser that filled the screen. But with the latest developer channel update, the OS has received …