Tablets, netbooks, smartphones–these days, you can’t buy a microwave without being upsold on the 4G, touchscreen, app-store model. But when you’re picking out your preferred mobile tech for work (or ...

Robust sales of Apple?s iPad and competing tablets from manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola, Dell, Research In Motion and Hewlett-Packard may be killing off 2009?s hot computing device, the ...

This time last year, netbook sales were up nearly 900% from the same quarter a year earlier. No one really expected that growth rate to continue, but no one really expected netbook sales to fall off ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The success of tablet computers will drag down sales of notebook and netbook computers, shifting some business away from x86 chips and Windows toward ARM-based processors and Google ...

Which is best: a tablet, a netbook or a laptop? Desktop computers are an optimal combination of power, functionality and price to work and play online and off. But most people want to use their ...

I'm in the market for a cheap ($200 -$250) netbook or tablet. I really just need internet, email, maybe netflix on it. I know I can get a netbook for $200 and probably be happy with it. The issue is ...

For the first time ever, tablet shipments have surpassed netbook shipments–finally sounding the death knell for netbooks. Market research firm ABI Research reports that Q2 2011 global tablet shipments ...

James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. The tech world, ever fickle, has declared ...

Sure, tablets are a cool idea, but netbooks aren't going anywhere, especially at the low end of the market and in education. E-readers are another story. As I've already noted, they need to get a heck ...