Consumer demand is what you'd see if Ford said it was working on building a car powered by sneezes. It's not what we're seeing for tablet computers. Let's look back to 2006, when nobody was asking for ...

With what looks like the advent of a new Amazon Kindle and continued talk of an Apple Tablet of sorts, Crunchpads, and other just over the horizon mobile wonders, some are saying the new devices are ...

Now that Apple has released the market-leading iPad, with a barrage of other tablet computers and dedicated eReaders flooding the market, it’s worthwhile to look back and see where all of this came ...

While most industries suffered during the pandemic, things went well for one technological sector: tablet computers. According to a recent report from analyst firm IDC, the global tablet market ...

In China, 2010 will be the year of the Tiger. In the tech world, 2010 will be the year of the Tablet — or so it seems. A bevy of tech companies have teased, talked, and have not denied rumors that ...

BERLIN Getting your peanut butter in my chocolate — or vice versa — is sometimes a good thing. But trying to get a laptop into a tablet computer has a long history of failure, stretching back about a ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT professor behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, is playing the role of the quirky idealist nicely. His latest plan? To drop the project’s new XO-3 tablets from ...