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 ...

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 ...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kalpesh Lathigra/The Indepen/REX/Shutterstock (4116132z) Apple Newton and a GSM cellular phone modem faxing is as easy as pluggin in EPD ...

The MessagePad was a product ahead of its time. February 27, 1998: Apple discontinues work on the Newton MessagePad product line, the series of personal digital assistants the company launched five ...

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 ...

Behind Apple Computer’s long-awaited Newton lie six years of painful and sometimes contentious work on a project whose originator never imagined it would be so crucial to the company’s future — and a ...

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 ...

If you're hiking the Lake Tahoe Rim Trail and you run into a man carrying a camouflage Apple Newton, it's probably Ron Parker. Parker always carries his Newton when he walks the mountains circling ...

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 ...