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Amazon is offering customers a chance to get an Android handset at nearly 50% off if they are willing to have ads on their lock screens. read more Continue reading...

Here in our family, we have at least 4 of the original Microsoft Surface Pros in constant use. The originals are about as solid and trustworthy as the old IBM Microchannel PCs. They just won’t die. And, I know many of you are still running these tablets for various things. read more Continue...

In recent years it seems like nearly every browser under the sun has become a clone of google chrome in some form or fashion. From Opera,to Maxthon, to Edge to even Firefox looking more like chrome then it does its own browser. Its attack of the chrome clones and its gotten very stale and...

RoboForm will not work with Edge, MS's new Internet Browser simply because Edge does not allow extensions. RoboForm programmers state that until the Edge programmers allow extensions, there is nothing that they can do to make RoboForm compatible with the Edge Browser. Come on, Microsoft! Quit...

My name is Lenny Bonsignore. I was born and raised in Queens New York, I’m a letter carrier full-time and also Editor-in-Chief of OneTechStop.net. I was totally surprised to be offered to do a review on the Lumia 950, the device I have been anxiously waiting to get. I was very willing to do the...

Lenovo has delivered a fantastic device in the Yoga 900, firmly supplanting my long-time favorite HP Spectre x360 as the top device for 2015. read more Continue reading...

I had to replace an old, trusted set of earbuds recently. I settled on the Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones. read more Continue reading...

I did a brief (hah 2 hours 34 minutes) look at build 10041 on a live Google Hangout. You can view it on YouTube here:

Unpicking the past is a messy business for Microsoft Review Microsoft does not have long to fix Windows 10. The company plans to release it this year, and if that implies hardware on the shelves, the operating system will need to be completed in the summer – and most features will need to be...

It's already obvious this a Windows 8.1 mini-tablet to watch A new Windows 8.1 mini-tablet emerges, and after just a short time examining the device, it's clear that this one is a contender. Similar in many ways to the Dell Venue 8 Pro, the Miix 2 also offers a pretty 8-inch screen running at...

On November 29th 2012, I purchased the new Windows Phone 8X (aka HTC 8X) from a local store called "The Soruce" (replaced RadioShack here in Eastern Canada, is owned by my carrier Bell Mobility). I got the phone as an early upgrade for some $250. Immediately after purchasing it, while using the...

Neowin.net have reviewed Windows 8. IMO I find it a well balanced and fair article with good advice on how to get the most from the new os. Worth a read: Neowin - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Neowin

If you are moving your finger at 1 meter per second on an average 100 millisecond touch screen, your object will eventually become about 10 centimeters behind. At Microsoft Research, they have been trying to decrease the latency associated with touch screens. Albert Ng and Paul Dietz of the...

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Mixing a sluggish Windows tablet with an outdated Android one makes the Intel Atom-powered ViewSonic ViewPad 10 less than ideal for either OS. Link Removed due to 404 Error

I've got a samsung HDD now, but it has died (within 3 days). So I don't know if I did something wrong or if the HDD sucks. anyway, I've got my eye on 2 new harddrives: samsung HD105SI(bulk, SpinPoint F3 EcoGreen) = 49 euros vs Hitachi HDS5C1010CLA382 (bulk, Deskstar 5K1000, 24/7) = 50 euros...

So you're a Windows 7 user and you thank Microsoft every day for creating something that has gotten you off Windows Vista. Almost 18 months on and loads of little updates later, we finally find ourselves greeted with the first Service Pack for the operating system. So it's got a list of...

My Google Chromebook landed via FedEx just about an hour ago. Naturally, I couldn’t resist firing that puppy up. Now this isn’t a full-blown review, but immediate impressions of what I liked and areas that are going to take some work to get used to. The ultimate judge of this thing will be...

Recently, after testing two MacBook Air models running Windows 7, we published results that showed the thin and light Apple laptops outperformed most Windows-based netbooks and ultraportable notebooks. Hundreds of readers commented on the article, with many of the comments going something like...

Trying to use Windows 7 on a tablet shows that while it may be a touch-screen OS, it is not a tablet OS - and there is a difference Though some might find this surprising, it pains me to write a negative review. I know what it's like to labour over something and discover that it doesn't come up...