Mobility

IBM Corp. is planning the release of a new ultraportable device designed to bring extended battery life, a new recovery toolset and better manageability in a smaller footprint than the company's previous offerings.

I've always liked the idea of being able to just pick up and go out into the wild unknown. Of course, being a geeky sort of editor, I want to take my PC with me. So for the past few weeks, I've been trying an experiment: I've turned off my desktop machines both at home and work, and have been using an ultraportable notebook instead.

Retail spending on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology will grow more than tenfold over the next four years, according to projections by IDC.

Intel Corp.'s president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini delivered one of the company's strongest endorsements for adding 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set Wednesday, but Intel still thinks a market for the technology has not arrived.

Fujitsu Ltd. is about to make a push to get some new informatics products into the U.S. market.

The U.K. office of Kroll Ontrack Inc., a firm specializing in data recovery and electronic evidence, recently released a list of the 10 most bizarre computer mishaps its data experts encountered over the past year.

Taiwanese barebones PC maker Shuttle Inc. has released details of a more compact version of its small XPC barebones PC that is expected to be introduced at the Cebit exhibition in March.

Acer Inc. has introduced the TravelMate C110, which it claims to be the first Centrino-based convertible tablet PC to debut on the world market.