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Bill Detwiler cracks open the Motorola Lapdock. Inside the Droid Bionic accessory he found hardware from Realtek, Holtek, Texas Instruments, and SMSC.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Amazon Kindle. Inside the pocket-sized e-reader, there’s hardware from Freescale, SanDisk, Hynix, and Atheros.

September 27 – 30, 2011, the TechRepublic editorial staff hosted the third annual TechRepublic Live Event, where IT professionals meet to share their experiences and exchange their collective knowledge about business technology.

See how the Ribbon in Windows 8’s Windows Explorer really works!

NASA is putting up the largest ever prize in aviation and Google is sponsoring the Green Flight Challenge.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Sprint Samsung’s Galaxy S II. Inside the 4G Android smartphone he found hardware from Samsung, Toshiba, Atmel, and Qualcomm.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Sony Tablet S. Inside this Android tablet, he found hardware from Nvidia, Elpida, Samsung, and UEI.

TechRepublic’s Jack Wallen says that with a few tweaks Gnome could be far better than anything else available. Here are some things about this new desktop that won him over.

As part of Microsoft’s BUILD Windows conference, they released a Developer Preview version of Windows 8. This is our first official look at the next Windows operating system. From the start it is obvious that this is a bold step for Microsoft.

Bill Detwiler cracks open Motorola’s Droid Bionic. Inside the Verizon 4G LTE smartphone he found hardware from Elpida, Atmel, and Qualcomm.

JibJab founders, best known for its songs of political satire, bring their skills for iPad-based ebooks where anyone can be the star.

Sony has unveiled the a new pair of noise-canceling headphones that are easy to travel with but cost a sizable chunk of change. Here’s a hands-on review.

IT, software and computer companies are certainly not without their share of poor executive decisions and mismanagement. While dozens of notable examples could have made our list, these were by far the top top 10 worst in the history of the technology industry, causing many billions of dollars of lost revenue or resulted in the downfall of entire companies.

Bill Detwiler cracks open Apple’s 2011 11-inch MacBook Air. Inside the ultra-thin notebook he found hardware from Intel, Samsung, and Broadcom.

Can’t get enough of “Dancing with the Stars”? The stars on this dance floor are tech execs, and the dancing — well, you’ll just have to imagine it.

Check out the Microsoft Touch Mouse

Help desk work requires far more than just knowing how to sort out a user’s computer problems.

Firefox 6 is better than Firefox 5, but it doesn’t compare all that well with Chrome 13 or Internet Explorer 9.