There is no doubt that the Microsoft Surface range of devices have been a success. The reason is apparent! People needing little computing resources got what they can say – a good portable OS – that ...

The Year of the Tablet PC? Some days, it may seem like there are a million tablet PCs in the marketplace – given all the ink and pixels dedicated to them in news reports. But, in truth, there are a ...

Despite the initial rush of Centrino-based notebooks into the market, Intel Corp.’s new platform isn’t just about notebooks. Built around Intel’s Pentium M processor, announced earlier this month, and ...

The word "tablet" used to refer to a flat slab for bearing an inscription. Leave it to the tech industry to make it into something far more complicated and confusing. Scores of products marketed as ...

Microsoft and its PC partners are producing a seemingly endless variety of tablets, from 8-inch slates that can practically fit into a (large) pocket to 10-inch tablets that still aren’t quite ideal ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates here for the launch. Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are among the companies making the new tablet PCs, which are similar to notebook PCs. Most of the devices ...

Tablets have been around for a while, but with a new breed emerging that rival ordinary laptops, these convertibles could represent the new standard. We examine five of the best. In June 2003 we ...

“Tablet PCs remain a niche product in the marketplace, used predominantly in vertical applications,” said Leslie Fiering, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in a recent conference presentation. The tablet ...