Tablets

News, reviews and how-to advice for iPad and other tablet devices.

To outward appearances, all elements necessary to fuel a thriving second screen app market exist today.

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Eric T. Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, has sent letters to the CEOs of Apple, Google/Motorola, Microsoft and Samsung pressing them to detail what efforts they are making to head off the growing problem of device theft.

Another year of declining print sales for magazine publishers seems inevitable, but the digital future looks brighter. New research from Adobe suggests that not only are tablet magazines growing quickly, but that readers are even willing to pay for them.

Also inside: American Airlines saves $1 million through a large-scale tablet deployment

Some businesses may boast about how tablets have transformed employee productivity, but others are having a hard time keeping workers away from Facebook, Twitter and other tablet time drainers. But if that’s you, don’t fret -- here is what you can do to sort it all out.

Also Inside: Are 8-inch tablets the new 7-inch devices, and Samsung manages to lose and win in the same week

Also inside: Google’s Nexus 10 is failing - to the point where Surface RT outsold it

Also inside: Are newspaper publishers finally turning things around?

In the beginning there was the iPad and it was good. That was three years ago. The iPad was far from the first tablet computer, but it was the first to hit it big with consumers as well as business people. 


Also inside: Facebook skins Android with its Home extension, and PC manufacturers face an uphill battle thanks to tablets

Think Apple’s iPad and iPad mini are the only go-to tablets for educators? Well, think again, because here are several good iPad alternatives offering great specs, pricing and school-friendly features.

As users have added business apps to access secure data within the workplace, the need to link and manage the appropriate identity has led to an important new trend: BYOI or Bring Your Own Identity.

Also inside: What’s Microsoft’s next move with Windows 8? And why is Jeff Bezos patenting dumb tablet “remote display” technology?

Tablets are the kind of products that make us happy, get us to ditch our heavy laptops, and become one with our fingers. Tablets are, some say, the sweet nectar that all tech lovers need.

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HP’s ElitePad 900 tablet is sleek, powerful and packed with excellent enterprise security features. However, that package of features, along with excellent expansion capabilities, make for a premium-priced tablet not all business buyers will be able to justify. (4 out of 5 stars).

The closing of the gap between native and HTML5 apps has huge implications for enterprise tablet deployments.

Silicon Valley professional Cassie Maas shared several of the tools she uses to be a more effective realtor at the recent Tablet Strategy West conference.