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TechRepublic Editor, Bill Detwiler cracks open the Spectre and gives you a look inside.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and shows you how Barnes and Noble made it lighter and gave it an integrated reading light.

Jack Wallen shows you how to migrate your contacts from your Android phone’s local storage to your Google account.

Need to locate and filter out duplicate data from an Excel document? Here’s how to do it.

Selling tech is tough, and customers have more choices than ever. Here are some strategies to gain their loyalty.

Want to get organized? Wunderlist can help you do just that.

Bill Detwiler shows you how to remove and replace a cracked LCD panel from an Asus UL50V laptop.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Iconia Tab A510 and explains the good, bad and interesting of the Android tablet’s internal hardware and design.

Bill Detwiler disassembles the Toshiba Excite 10 and finds a Android tablet that may not appeal to fans of Toshiba’s earlier Thrive

Bill Detwiler cracks open the EVO 4G LTE and finds a lot to like about Sprint’s version of the HTC One X.

The Galaxy S III is to crack open, but Bill Detwiler explains why replacing the screen or front panel will be costly.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and discovers a laptop that’s nearly impossible to upgrade and a pain to work on.

Bill Detwiler dissects the 13-inch MacBook Air (2012) and finds better hardware, unchanged battery and internal design.

Lief Morin, president of Key Information Systems, talks about edge computing and its role in digital transformation. It can extend and support networks securely and meet regulation requirements.

Bill Detwiler cracks open a $7000 HP Z1 all-in-one workstation and discovers a machine that’s easy to service, packed with high-end hardware, and engineered to be cool and quiet.

Kinetic is an IoT operations platform that pulls data from IoT devices at the edge of a company’s network. Exxon Mobile uses Cisco Kinetic to connect its deep-water drilling platforms; as a result, information that used to take two weeks to ship to Houston, TX daily is delivered in two seconds.

Bill Detwiler tears down the Asus-built Google Nexus 7, explores the internal hardware, and explains why it has an edge on Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

Bill Detwiler tears down the 11-inch MacBook Air (2012) and finds no major design changes but several important hardware updates.