The phrase "post-PC era" has been kicked around a lot over the last year. The term comes from the idea that so many people are using smartphones and tablets that PCs aren't as important anymore.

The 40-year-old original Apple Macintosh is a museum piece but a few enthusiastic fans still own and use the devices (Credit: Alamy) On 24 January 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. I have had the privilege of tracking the personal computer ...

A few days after I got the job as Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com, I met with an executive at a huge interactive agency for drinks. “Congratulations,” she told me brightly, “but you have to change the ...

In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Amidst the plethora of patents granted that year, you would’ve been forgiven for not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I joined Creative Strategies in 1981, I was initially to ...

Back in 1990, I was asked by Microsoft to look closely at a product in the works that turned out to be the company’s first tablet. The focus on this device was a stylus-based device centered on what ...

In 1989, I wrote a piece in one of my internationally syndicated columns about a mobile computing concept that was very modular. Back then, portable computers were pretty bulky and heavy and having to ...

The following selection of references reflects my choices about which papers, chapters, books, etc. relate to my interest in ICTs in everyday life. Hence, they usually report empirical research. Ahn, ...

One of the concepts I stressed during my speeches at the recent ITEC conferences surprised many people: stop calling computers “personal” computers. Changing that attitude will lower your hassle ...