Future Nook products will be joined by near-field communication chips, allowing Barnes & Noble to further leverage its store locations against Amazon.

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NFC chips coming to Nook devices, says Barnes & Noble CEO

Ever since Apple introduced the MacBook Air in 2008, the laptop/netbook replacement has been doing swift business. Apple likes selling products that are minimalist in design, and it’s hard to deny how beautiful the machine is.

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15-inch MacBook Air replaces Pro in April?

While millions of Apple fans focus their collective gaze on next week’s iPad 3 event, that hasn’t stopped rumors about other Apple products from trickling in. Analysts and supply chain leaks all agree that the MacBook Pro will get a design refresh sometime this year, but, until today, nobody really knew when to expect that.

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Thinner MacBook Pro to launch in April? Don’t bet on it

AirPlay is an Apple feature that many iOS users don’t know a lot about. For starters, it requires an Apple TV set-top-box, a gadget that isn’t nearly as popular as other Apple products. Additionally, the best parts of AirPlay only showed up late last year with the release of iOS 5

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How to use AirPlay

In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military’s OS and tablet wars

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iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon

In September, Intel showed off the Claremont processor, a research prototype so energy-efficient it can run Windows on the power generated by a palm-size solar cell. Now, the company is also using the processor’s Near Threshold Voltage technique in memory chips and graphics processors, and the technique’s public status has also been upgraded from may-not-see-the-light-of-day to likely-to-turn-up-in-products.

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Intel ‘Solar’ Chip Nears Light of Day

For some Apple product releases, the company manages to keep such a tight wrap on its products that nobody really knows exactly what we’ll hear when its execs take the stage. Take the iPhone 4S, for example

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Was the iPad 3′s thicker case just pictured next to an iPad 2?