For several years, technology pundits have predicted the death of the palmtop computer. "This is the cell phone age," they say. "Who's going to carry around a separate gadget just to look up names and ...

What can you cram into an organizer? A camera, remote control, keyboard, a tiny-page Web browser and even that geek's delight, Linux software. Via different routes, two new palmtops from Sony and ...

Any glamour associated with toting around laptop computers has long since vanished. With their bulk, their attractiveness to thieves and the complications they bring to airport security checks, many ...

Microsoft's Windows CE will sort out the palmtop kings from the paupers, Hewlett-Packard (HP) claimed today. The cut-down operating system for handheld devices is expected to be at the nub of the next ...

During the 1990s, Hewlett-Packard produced a line of memorable portable machines. Between 1991 and 2002, Hewlett-Packard manufactured a line of portable, palmtop computers that set new standards for ...

The story It’s been a tough year for standalone palmtops – put simply, smartphones are killing them. Palm, once the king of the block, split with its software company, changed its name (to PalmOne), ...

Like all PDAs, clamshells, or palmtops, were rendered obsolete by smartphones, and those with capacitive touchscreens largely wiped out those with physical keyboards; BlackBerry remains about the only ...