Anthony Leuck of Berkeley, N.J., is used to communicating in unconventional ways. The 18-year-old is a quadriplegic with multiple disabilities that make speech and muscle control extremely difficult. He interacts through eye gaze or by tapping his head against a switch on a communication device to spell out words.

But on a recent afternoon at the Lehmann Center, a special-needs school in Lakewood, N.J., Leuck was able to make music. With some effort, he slid his knuckles lightly over the digital image of a guitar on an iPad screen. The touches produced a series of acoustic-style chords...

The Philadelphia Media Network is coming to market with an interesting twist on subsidizing mobile devices. The owner and publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and philly.com is offering deep discounts on a bundled package of digital newspaper subscriptions and an Android tablet.

PMN will offer 5,000 of the 10.1-inch tablets, to include digital subscriptions, or apps, of the Philadelphia Inquirer and philly.com. The Arnova 10 G2 tablet, made by Archos, is selling for a discounted $99, and also comes preloaded with other apps.

"This partnership recognizes that...

The Intel Developer Forum is opening its doors this week but AMD is trying to rain on its rival's Ultrabook parade. Intel is expected to shine a spotlight on its next big platform at the event. But AMD is boasting about a new world record in a move to steal the show.

Intel seeks to give the Windows tablet and ultralight notebook market a push with its Ultrabook, a platform that combines performance with improved responsiveness and security in a thin form factor. It's Intel's answer to Apple's iPad and Mac Air of the post-PC era, and it's an important introduction for the chipmaker....

The operating system webOS seems on it way to becoming the foster child of the mobile world, wandering from one home to the next.

Initially developed by Palm as the successor to its Palm OS for personal data assistants and introduced in January 2009, the Linux-based webOS became part of the Hewlett-Packard family in April 2010 when the company took over struggling Palm.

Now, it could enter a new relationship with top handset-maker HTC, which makes such Android-based devices as the Thunderbolt and Droid Incredible for Verizon and the coming Radar and Titan, running Microsoft's Windows...