There is no sadder moment than the one where you realize it’s time to upgrade your computer. The load times are too slow, the battery no longer holds a charge, and it’s just too damn heavy. Now, ...

After Jonathan Hefter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2009, his life could have gone a number of ways. Instead of taking one of the multiple job offers the ...

Robert Hornik has seen a lot in his two decades as a teacher at the East New York Family Academy in Brooklyn. “It used to be common to see police helicopters circling overhead,” he recalls. But things ...

When your old laptop takes five minutes to boot Windows, you may start to think about giving it away or worse, tossing it. A company called Neverware has a better idea — why not convert it to run ...

There is something odd about the computer Jonathan Hefter keeps at his desk in the Dogpatch Labs tech incubator just There is something odd about the computer Jonathan Hefter keeps at his desk in the ...

Chromebooks are an amazing tool. If you have a child in school right now, you know that there’s a major push for Chromebooks in the classroom. They run Chrome OS, which is very lightweight and able to ...

Neverware, a New York City-based startup with a software platform that converts legacy computers into Chromebooks, announced today that it has raised a new round of investment led by Google. It won’t ...

A service called CloudReady gives old computers new life with Google's Chrome operating system -- but there are a few things you should know before taking the plunge. Man — I’ve been “upgrading” an ...

Neverware makes Chromium OS, the open-source version of Chrome OS, easy to install on any PC or Mac. Unsurprisingly, it has gained traction with budget-strapped schools that have aging laptops laying ...