When so-called “minicomputers” first appeared in the 1970s, they supplanted mainframes on a scale of size and cost expressed by Bell’s Law, which holds that a new class of smaller, cheaper computers ...

It’s a truly modern irony: As our technological ambitions grow, our computers keep on shrinking. At the IBM’s Think Conference on Monday, the company unveiled the latest affirmation of this adage: the ...

The days of lugging around a laptop computer are on the way out, because you may soon be able to fit a portable computer into your wallet. Intel introduced its latest mini-computer at the Consumer ...