As handheld computers have proliferated, their business applications have made them nearly indispensible in the workplace. By putting computing power at employees' fingertips, these devices increase ...

As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity — and transform the ...

The Census Bureau's program to develop handheld computers to collect data on Americans during the 2010 census is in "serious trouble," and the bureau should immediately develop plans to use paper ...

There is emerging evidence that healthcare professionals are effectively using handheld computers across a variety of functions that support clinical practice, according to a study in the Journal of ...

People who work in harsh and rugged environments can't use normal computers, at least not if they want the machines to last long. Many of these workers need machines that are very rugged and a company ...

Redditor tomsek68 is working on a project that would breathe new life into an old handheld computer by replacing a broken motherboard with an old, sluggish processor with a newer board sporting a ...

Over the last decade the average laptop computer has gotten a lot thinner and lighter. But a handful of Chinese companies have been taking a different approach to portable computers by releasing a ...