A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. Smartphones are the handheld computers of the 21st century. See smartphone and palmtop. THIS ...

As handheld computers have proliferated, their business applications have made them nearly indispensible in the workplace. By putting computing power at employees' fingertips, these devices increase ...

The GPD MicroPC 2 is a little computer that looks a lot like a laptop, but it’s designed to be used more like a palmtop. Hold it in two hands and you can reach your thumbs across the QWERTY keyboard ...

Over the last decade the average laptop computer has gotten a lot thinner and lighter. But a handful of Chinese companies have been taking a different approach to portable computers by releasing a ...

As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity — and transform the ...

Micros Systems Inc. of Beltsville has built a hand-held computer that allows waiters and waitresses to take drink and food orders from poolside, the beach and other places where thirsty patrons hang ...

WASHINGTON — Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation’s 300 million or so people the old-fashioned way: with ...

The transmission of digitized radiographic images is having a positive impact on diagnosis, treatment, and education in many fields of medicine. A team of urologists has now explored the possibility ...