Tablets are so good, it seems, that people are keeping the ones they have and not buying as many new ones.

“Consumers are deciding that their current tablets are good enough for the way they use them,” says Tom Mainelli, IDC vice president of devices and displays. “Few are feeling compelled to upgrade the same way they did in years past.”

And if there’s anything Apple shareholders hate, it’s modesty. That’s the second reason slowing growth in the tablet market hurts Apple in particular. Anything other than dramatic increases these days sends Apple shareholders scurrying to press “sell.”

The dead-tree-coloring king said on Tuesday that it had closed two separate lawsuits with German firm BestUse, which failed to mount any kind of defense and now must pay HP's legal fees, in addition to disclosing information about its upstream suppliers.

HP's patent attorneys have also scored significant wins in Poland. The printer maker has named six businesses that it says have agreed not to sell patent-infringing cartridges.

The office that oversees the most powerful military in history (not to mention the best-funded) is unable to project when its single fax machine will once again be operational.

Given its budget of a mere $31.8 billion for maintenance and operations and last year's backlog of more than 1,000 overdue FOIA requests for the Secretary's office alone, we urge the Defense Department to move into the 21st century.

Crossbar is touting impressive specs for the RRAM technology, promising 20 times the write performance at a fraction of the power consumption and size of the current best-in-class NAND flash modules.

"With our working Crossbar array, we have achieved all the major technical milestones that prove our RRAM technology is easy to manufacture and ready for commercialisation," said CEO George Minassian.

EDA's CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice.

The agency demonstrated serious technical misunderstandings—it shut down its e-mail servers because some of the e-mails on the servers contained malware, even though this posed no risk to the servers themselves—and a general sense of alarmism.

A student wins in the Google #IfIHadGlass competition and tries to sell his glasses on eBay. He meets with opposition. He says he just wanted to pay off his student loans.

Ed didn't imagine, however, that the company that embraces openness as if it were a believable religion would put strictures on Google Glass usage. If owners try to resell or even lend their glasses to someone else, Google may simply cause the product to seize up.

Yes, Google is able to throw a remote brick through your lenses -- though some informed sources suggest the company has no intention of doing so.

Mounting a TV up and out of the way above a fireplace seems logical, convenient, and undeniably cool. However, there are serious issues with such placement.

There is nothing worse for an electronics product than heat (OK, maybe water or kicking it could be worse, but you get my point). Increasing the operating temperature of the TV can shorten what should be a lively and reliably long life.

According to multiple posts on Microsoft's Surface Forum, the edge of Surface Touch keyboards can split open at the seam where the keyboard-cover magnetically attaches to the tablet unit, exposing wiring within.

The splitting keyboard is not the only problem being reported. One support forum thread is devoted to users who have experienced audio muting. "Glad I found this thread," one poster posts. "I've had the problem happen about 10 times and it's all on different occasions."

Because the runtime needs access to /dev (if the target system is Linux) and an output bus, Wightman says the runtime is often given root or (in the case of Windows-based targets) administrator access.

“The TCP listener service allows for file transfer as well as a command-line interface,” the post states. “Neither the command-line interface nor the file transfer functionality requires authentication.

Sony faced a setback in its campaign to control what software can run on its PlayStation 3 after hackers published one of the cryptographic keys that forms the core of the security scheme locking down the game console

Nate Lawson, a cryptographer and the principal of the Root Labs security consultancy, said the disclosure represents a setback for Sony in its attempt to control what end users can and can't do with the console.