Video: HP's ENVY 8 tablet and keyboard combo offers ultimate portable productivity

Many believe 8-inches to be the sweet spot when it comes to tablets. That is, they are usually compact enough to hold in one hand and a good size for consuming video as well as short interactions with social media, email, and games. For typing, not so much. Usually the smaller keyboards designed around these small tablets are ergonomic nightmares that suck the joy out of typing. HP's ENVY 8 Windows 10 tablet tries to give users both. A full-featured Windows 10 device (with 4G-LTE connectivity to boot) and an accessory keyboard that's more for a 10-inch device and stable. Check out the design video above, this device is going to be on many people's want list come Novemember when it ships.

HP releases slew of new Windows 10 devices for the holidays

HP's just announced its latest offerings in time for the holiday season. New devices range from a productivity-focused 8-inch tablet in the ENVY Note 8 to various 2-in-1's, Ultrabooks, tablets, all-in-on PC's and even a Star Wars themed notebook.

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BBC and Yahoo partnership will bring 200 news video clips monthly to US and Canada

Yahoo is teaming up with BBC to distribute about 200 of BBC's News video clips monthly to users in Canada and the United States. Our users in North America can now engage with the BBC’s short-form video content on international news, science, tech, and business reporting.

The new collaboration with Yahoo will focus on short-form video content with a particular focus on the BBC’s international news, science, tech and business reporting drawn from the BBC’s global site BBC.com. Around 200 BBC News videos will be syndicated to Yahoo on a monthly basis and will start appearing on their sites this month.

Meet the new Microsoft, a maker of premium hardware products

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By launching its own Apple-esque spread of super-desirable and sexy handsets, tablets, notebooks and wearables, Microsoft can show the world ideal products that work best with its software and services. 

Windows 10 might have been made available for free, but enjoying the optimal Windows 10 experience on Microsoft's new devices is going to cost you.

Microsoft just unloaded a kaboodle of new hardware and none of them can be considered cheap, even if the unified OS which they run, Windows 10, is one of the most accessible and available operating systems in the market today. Since it launched eight weeks ago, Windows 10 has been installed in over 110 million devices by users hoping to exorcise the demons left behind by Windows 8 on their PC's, 2-in-1's and tablets.

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