TOKYO (AP) — Sony is launching a head mounted display that provides a three dimensional theater of music videos, movies and games. Sony Corp. showed the 60,000 yen ($800) “HMZ personal 3-D viewer” Wednesday. The machine is set to go on sale Nov. 11 in Japan, and is planned for the U.S. and Europe, perhaps [...]

TORONTO | Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:26pm EDT TORONTO (Reuters) – The launch of a string of well-received BlackBerry smartphones helped Research In Motion stock gain 6 percent on Tuesday and almost 50 percent since hitting a five-year low on August 8. The smartphone maker has also been aided by Google’s $12.5 billion move to [...]

LOS ANGELES | Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:56pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hewlett Packard Co plans to crank out “one last run” of TouchPads, days after declaring it will kill off a line of tablets that failed to challenge Apple Inc’s command of the booming market. A day after the chief of HP’s personal [...]

MANILA, Philippines — Toshiba gives mobility a new meaning as it unveiled its high-performance business laptops, the Tecra R840. Introduced in the Philippines recently in Makati City, the Tecra aims to give business professionals uncompromised performance required of today’s computing needs even while mobile. The presentation was made with great regard for the laptop as [...]

MANILA, Phiilppines — When inveterate pack rats like this author see new gadgets, we tend to want to either have them or to try them out – regardless of whether they will serve or work well in the long term. Yes, this is a fault that I am still trying to correct after 6 decades, [...]