United Airlines and Apple announced today that the airline will deploy 11,000 iPads for its United and Continental pilots. This is the first major airline to replace paper flight manuals with electronic flight bags, or EFBs.

“The paperless flight deck represents the next generation of flying,” said Captain Fred Abbott, United’s senior vice president of flight operations, in a press release. “The introduction of iPads ensures our pilots have essential and real-time information at their fingertips at all times throughout the flight.”

Alaska Airlines ditched paper charts for iPads in June,...

If Hewlett-Packard sells off some or all of its non-printing consumer hardware business, the most likely buyer is probably Samsung. And the Korean hardware giant has reportedly reached out to Taiwanese notebook vendors to explore just that.

Taiwanese vendors report that Samsung is looking to Hewlett-Packard’s old partners to ramp up laptop production and outsourcing, suggesting that Samsung ’seem(s) like it is already in preparation to take up Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) PC business.’

According to Digitimes’ sources, Samsung met with top HP notebook contractor Quanta Computer, as well as Compal...