Tablet

Meet the tablet for... babies

Gadget-maker Vinci is about to start selling an iPad-like device aim squarely at infants -- and it's not cheap.

FORTUNE -- With over 25 million sold, Apple's iPad isn't just a hit with adult consumers but also with their kids. In fact, they often learn to tap, swipe and pinch their way around its slick user interface faster than their parents. But whether or not they ought to at such MORE

What's going on with the Wall Street Journal and Apple?

The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper ran a couple of very odd stories this week

There's not much doubt, Rupert Murdoch declared on his Fox News cable network last year, that Steve Jobs is the best chief executive in the U.S.

"He's got such incredible focus," he told an interviewer. "He's got such power inspiring the people around him who work for him. And, you know, it's -- it's a highly, highly disciplined company... MORE

How many cardinals does it take to teach a Pope to tweet?

Pope Benedict XVI sits at an iPad to launch -- via Twitter -- a Vatican news portal

It was a scene familiar to anyone who has tried to show an aged parent or grandparent how to use Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer.

A toddler will pick up an iPad, understand intuitively what those onscreen buttons are for, and start happily banging away. But an 84-year-old man who is supposed to be infallible is MORE

The iPad 2 leaks: A tale of bribery, theft and jail time

Three conspirators are fined and imprisoned for stealing Apple's secrets

In early December, when the original iPad was a hot-selling Christmas gift and the iPad 2 was still a rumor, there appeared on the Internet colorful images of silicone iPad cases that didn't fit the current model. For one thing, they each had a hole in the back that could accommodate a rear-facing camera.

Was it a hoax, a guess or an MORE

Inside the Apple iPad factory

The site of Friday's explosion was massive 8-building complex thrown together in a record 70 days

When a polishing workshop blew up in Foxconn's new factory complex in Chengdu, China, it was an English-language website operating, as they put it, "outside the Great Firewall of China, temporarily," that broke the news and provided U.S. media outlets with videos, photos and regular updates.

On Saturday, the website -- M.I.C. Gadget -- posted a background MORE

Track your own iPhone

Find out how much your Mac knows about where your iOS devices have been

The map at right shows, for anyone who cares, where my iPhone has traveled in the Northeast since last June.

Apple (AAPL) has been getting a lot of heat this week for gathering this intelligence of potential forensic interest and storing it in unencrypted form whenever its mobile devices are synced with a computer.

Google (GOOG) Android phones also MORE

1 in 3 choose iPad over TV

And 43% spend more time on their tablet computer than on their laptop or desktop PC

This chart is from a survey of more than 1,400 tablet computer users conducted by AdMob, the online advertising company that Google (GOOG) snatched away from Apple (AAPL) in 2009. I missed the report when it was released last week. The extent to which tablets have cut into PC use is surprising.

"I think this trend MORE

Here come the HP WebOS tablets

We know HP is looking at WebOS as its competitor to Apple iOS and Google Android. But is HP cool enough to take them on?

This Wednesday Hewlett-Packard is expected to spill the beans on its new line of WebOS tablets. But thanks to leaked photos and specs and a teaser video from the company, we already know a lot about the upcoming devices, reportedly code-named Topaz and Opal.

For starters, we MORE

Onto the Android 3.0 Honeycomb Announcement

Watching the new Honeycomb 3.0 announcements.

If you are still breathing after that enthralling The Daily announcement, Google's got a tablet announcement of their own in the next few minutes, watch on YouTube.

Here is a video of Honeycomb via ZDNet:

Vic Gondotra gave a preview of what we are likely to see today in May of last year (video below the fold).  It will be interesting to see what has transpired over MORE

Today in Tech: More HP-Palm tablet details

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