In November 2000, a full decade before Steve Jobs blew everyone away with the iPad, Bill Gates showcased a prototype tablet device during a keynote at the Comdex computer expo trade show in Las Vegas.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asustek Computer unveiled a novel laptop-tablet design at the Computex trade show in Taipei on Monday, along with an all-in-one PC with a detachable monitor that transforms into “the world’s biggest ...

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, ...