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Yep, it's party-time in Beijing once again. While the PC industry as a whole reportedly grew by a tight handful of percentage points over the past year, Lenovo has somehow managed to continue its long-running growth spurt, with shipments up 44 percent and operating profits up 46 percent.

Acer has been known to celebrate the Olympic Games with special-edition tech, so we weren't exactly surprised when the company launched a festive version of the Iconia Tab A510 this April in anticipation of the Summer Games in London.

Gene Roddenberry would have you believe that space is the final frontier.

The last time we heard from SDG Systems, it was shilling its Trimble Nomad with Android 1.

It's only been a few days since Hillcrest Labs open sourced its Kylo web browser for TVs, and now the company's back with yet another announcement.

Microsoft has been going into very exacting detail as to how Windows 8 works, but one area it hasn't explored much is what happens before you even see the Start screen.

Android's openness, combined with its popularity, has lead a few of the developer faithful astray -- with malware being a legitimate concern for the mobile operating system.

They may not be "robots" as most have come to expect, but these so-called microrobots developed by a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa do have at least one thing in common with many of their mechanical counterparts: lasers.

Microsoft warned us last month that it would be snipping legacy OS support in Windows Phone Marketplace within a few weeks, and it just made good on that heads-up.

We love finding out how things work, and arguably one of the most important parts of the smartphones and tablets we thrive on is the accelerometer gauging our device's orientation.

This week the Engadget HD podcast crew rolls the odometer over 300 episodes, but it's no big deal.

Ion's officially releasing its Air Pro camera that we put through its paces back in March.

Android might have already spilled over into the desktop world in one form or another, but what if you want something a little more project-friendly? VIA Technologies has developed the APC, a Neo-ITX-based barebones system running a custom version of Android 2.

You probably don't give much thought to the towers that blanket us with wireless signals and the technicians that climb up them, almost constantly, to upgrade the equipment.

Do you like your cars smart? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.

When we're not looking up at the stars, we're likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.

NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year.

3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat.

Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft, TalkTalk, and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK.

We've seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That's something different.