Shipments of tablet PCs topped 72,000 units in the fourth quarter of last year, and will "grow considerably" this year, research firm IDC said Friday. Tablet PCs--tiny portable computers fitted with ...

Frequent new product launches, government subsidies, increased appetite for children’s and gaming tablets, competitive ...

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, ...

For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been subscribing a cure for PC users who don't want to type on a keyboard to take notes during a meeting. Take a tablet - a tablet PC that is. A number of ...

Tablet PC 2.0 is on its way. With the first anniversary of Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system approaching in November, several PC makers have released or will soon release new ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The PC industry just had its best quarter since 2012. Tablet sales are cooling off. What in the name of desktop PCs, AOL and MySpace gives? An improving economy, the demise of Windows ...

Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the founder and CTO of Sapho and was formerly the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive. When iPads first came out, they were hailed as the undoing of the PC. Finally, a cheap and ...

SAN FRANCISCO --After a slow start, tablet personal computers are starting to take off, fueled by Microsoft's release of its operating system Windows XP Tablet PC and manufacturers rolling out a wider ...

China's TDV Vison plans to bring a tablet to market on three continents for $900 in September. HP, meanwhile, is set to start a retail push for the devices. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

This is it: 2013 is the year that tablets surpass notebooks in sales and assume their rightful place atop the mobile computing gadget throne. Don’t start playing “Taps” for the notebooks just yet, ...

(1) For tablet computers such as iPad and Android, see tablet. (2) The Tablet PC was the first Windows tablet. Introduced in the early 2000s when XP was the current version of Windows, the Tablet PC ...

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or to put the precipitous decline of the PC industry more aptly, it appears as though the bottom is finally falling out. After a devastating first quarter saw ...