The first Tablet PCs are a double instead of a home run: If each weighed about two pounds instead of four, with batteries that lasted eight hours instead of four, and cost around $1,000 instead of ...

A Tablet PC is a cross between a notebook and PDA. Designed for truly mobile computing, there are two types -- convertible and slate. Convertible tablets, such as the Toshiba Portege M400, look like ...

Reprinted with permission from RuggedPCReview. According to CNN, tablet-sized computers are now "a much-hyped category of electronics." True. The Associated Press says, "Tablet-style computers that ...

When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced the first tablet PC prototypes at the 2001 Comdex trade show in Las Vegas he predicted the devices would become the most popular form of PCs within five ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates here for the launch. Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are among the companies making the new tablet PCs, which are similar to notebook PCs. Most of the devices ...

Slow sales are leading the company to stop producing the Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet, whose touch screen let people draw images directly onto the monitor. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates promoted the Tablet PC during his Comdex keynote address for the second straight year – even though the machines aren’t expected to ...

The list of what tablets can do is long and growing, but it's the list of what they can't do that's keeping most employees from using tablets as PC replacements I’m a big fan of tablets. I recommend ...