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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

ALEX LOEB, AS vice president of the Tablet PC division for Microsoft, will be very much in demand this week as she tries to gain more support for Microsoft’s vision of the future of notebooks. In an ...

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 ...