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 ...

We are a bipolar technology nation — alternating between big and small. For example, I love my 60-inch LCD flat-screen TV, but I must have the new Droid X with 4.3-inch high-definition screen and 8 ...