They say the early bird gets the worm. But the bird that’s too early spends an hour looking for worms in the middle of the night and has to give up after a while. That’s an apt summary of the Newton ...

Every season of Apple TV's "For All Mankind" begins the same for prop master Jaime Mengual: A meeting with co-creators and showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert and producer Ben McGinnis to discuss ...

Back when CNET UK was a baby, it pitted an Apple Newton MessagePad against a Samsung Q1 UMPC in a brutal boxing match to the death. The Newton, despite being ten years the Q1's senior, emerged ...

August 2, 1993: Apple launches the Newton MessagePad, the first product in its line of handheld personal digital assistants. While it will become the most unfairly maligned product in Apple history, ...

If you were hoping for more circumstantial evidence the Apple tablet is real, today you’re getting your wish. Michael Tchao, one of the leading proponents of Apple’s failed Newton platform, returned ...

Apple has released their latest TV advert for the Apple iPad, and this one takes its inspiration from the original advert from the Apple Newton tablet. The Apple Newton was the first tablet from Apple ...

An initiative on the part of Apple Inc. to develop a modern day successor to its now defunct Newton handheld device is not expected to play a role in next week's Macworld Expo. The project, however, ...

In January, Jonathan Wise's Handspring Visor organizer died, so he decided to get a different handheld. After shopping around, he found a machine that did it all: Web, e-mail, calendar and address ...

Lots of folks have left Apple and gone on to other successful careers, and occasionally—like Steve Jobs himself—they come back to work for the iconic computing company. That is the case of Michael ...

In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history. When it comes to portable gadgets, however, it’s an era that’s nearly unrecognizable to us 21st-century ...

View Slideshow In January, Jonathan Wise's Handspring Visor organizer died, so he decided to get a different handheld. After shopping around, he found a machine that did it all: Web, e-mail, calendar ...