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 ...

I recently found myself in a Monty Python-like debate with a friend over whether Microsoft's Tablet PC is dead or simply "pining for the fjords." My take: The tablet PC is just catching its breath.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

based on a new version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, will account for just 1 percent of worldwide notebook shipments in 2003, for a total of about 425,000 tablet PCs. Although they may ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...