Microsoft Surface: Learning what a tablet is for

In this file photo from 2011, Navy Lt. Eric R. Bond, the company commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Explosive Ordinance Device unit based at Camp Shaheen in Afghanistan carefully works to render safe a bomb. Courtesy Eric R. Bond/U.S. Navy ...

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James McConville, commanding general, Combined Joint Task Force 101 and Regional Command East, welcomes representatives from nine countries who gathered for a coalition forces conference at Bagram Air Field, April 30, 2013.

Recent IDC report shows that Windows Phone is now the third-largest smartphone operating system in the world for the first quarter of 2013, overtaking BlackBerry for the first time. Microsoft's Windows Phone OS is slowly but surely inching its ...

Cash-strapped states such as Virginia are turning to the private sector to help finance large infrastructure projects. But it may just be a way of forcing drivers to pay more in the long run. May 16, 2013 | 8:20 p.m. (VDOT/Tom Saunders) RICHMOND, ...

The term smartphone was first used in 1997 and referred to a device that combined the functionalities of a mobile phone with the technology of a computer. Today, smartphones have become computers in their own right, with an ABI study predicting that ...

AT A CLASSIFIED COMMANDO BASE, Afghanistan — One day this month, a pair of Russian Mi-17 assault helicopters delivered two teams of Afghan commandos, their faces obscured by black masks, in a touch-and-go landing at this camp in a lush valley ...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth Monday night after a five-month mission at the International Space Station that saw him become the first Canadian to command the orbiting laboratory. The 53-year-old touched down in ...

Dancing white lights created storms, while lights and shadows combined to create the ghost ship and red lights represented the dead crew. This is the story of a Dutch sailor cursed to sail the seas for eternity unless he finds true love. Photos ...

Muscat: The fight against Somali pirates has been so effective that they haven't been able to mount a successful hijacking attempt since the beginning of 2013, stated a top official at the Atalanta EU NAVFOR, yesterday. "The combined efforts exerted ...