Just as the rumors of a pricey Apple tablet computer have reached a high-water mark, Freescale Semiconductor on Monday showcased reference designs of an affordable, lightweight tablet computer, which ...

Manufacturers are having a field day with their new tablet PCs. Top vendors Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba say sales of their tablet PCs--tiny portable computers fitted with pens, touch screens and ...

Though he’s now said to be overseeing development of the fabled Apple tablet, Steve Jobs reportedly questioned whether the device was good for anything but surfing the Web from the toilet. That’s ...

Within five years, according to Bill Gates, the most popular type of computer will be one that hardly exists today: a slate-shaped, pen-controlled, wirelessly networked portable called the tablet PC.

The tablet PC category is growing in importance with 72.7 million units shipped in 2011, accounting for more than a quarter of total mobile PC shipments last year, according to NPD DisplaySearch. The ...

Bill Gates proudly displayed a pioneering Microsoft tablet device way back in 2000, but it never really took off.

Do we go with the head or the heart on this one? Microsoft’s Tablet PC push is all about taking pen-based, clipboard computing out of its various vertical-market niches — doctors making rounds, ...

One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist ...

The still hypothetical device will be a 10-or-so-inch tablet PC with a full Mac OS X operating system; or it will merely be a larger-screen version of the current iPod Touch. Dan Ackerman Editorial ...

First International Computer (FIC) is on the verge of beginning mass production of a tablet PC based on Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor, more than a year after first unveiling samples of the device.