HP's Wallet-Busting Win

The insane tug-of-war between Dell and HP for enterprise storage company 3Par has finally drawn to a close. We have a winner, if you want to call it that -- the final sale price is more than double the figure Dell initially put forward when it announced its intentions to buy 3Par a couple weeks ago, so who knows how much of that is real value and how much is just financial one-upsmanship.

Toshiba, Samsung Launch Tablets To Rival IPad

Competition in the nascent, but fast-growing tablet market has intensified with more companies unveiling their own tablet computers to counter Apple Inc.'s iPad. Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. launched their new products on Thursday at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Germany.

Apple's Entertainment Roadmap: Simple, Connected, and in the Cloud

There were few surprises during today's Apple event, many of the new products --including the touchscreen Nano, a social network, a cheaper Netflix-toting Apple TV , and front-facing-camera-toting iPod Touch--were rumored with surprising accuracy. But put together, these announcements reveal a lot about where Apple is pushing its entertainment division. The Fourth Leg: Apple TV At the 2008 World ...

Apple wins patent for critically important iOS swipe-to-scroll gesture

Two years before the first iPhone, Apple applied for a patent that has become one of the staple gestures of the iOS platform.

iPad finally gets a rival

SAMSUNG today unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device to rival Apple's popular iPad.