OBITUARY South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. “What’s ...

Psion insists that such claims are not true, despite the fact that it has suspended production of its Bluetooth PDA and, faced with a "weak and oversupplied" handheld market, will not be developing ...

Psion has sent "cease and desist" letters to some netbook-oriented web sites ordering them to stop using the term "netbook". jkOnTheRun says: "The letters claim that the term netbook is trademarked by ...

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Psion yesterday lost a fifth of its stock market value after it was forced to admit that US partner Motorola had pulled out of an eagerly awaited joint venture aiming to "bring the internet to your ...

Psion's legal team followed up with jkOnTheRun, and according to them, it's only going after those sites and companies "making a direct, financial profit from use of the 'Netbook' trademark." (As ...

In the four years since the first Raspberry Pi appeared, there have been many takes on a portable computer based on it. The choice of components is fairly straightforward, there is now a wide ...

So it's farewell to the Psion organiser. The company that pioneered handheld organisers has decided to stop making them. How different things could have been, writes BBC News Online's Giles Wilson.

Psion's Teklogix division this week launched an update to its entry-level handheld computer, the Workabout, adding expansion capabilities and, more significantly, making the casing tough enough to ...