This week in tablets

Also Inside: Italian tablet manufacturer Ekoore preps a tablet capable of booting Linux, Android, or Windows 8

Also Inside: Will Google announce a new Nexus 7 next week?

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

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

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

Also Inside: Early reports on Windows 9, a Wacom tablet-tablet, and the iPotty?

Also inside: Does CBS’ decision to stream all of its prime time programming represent a tipping point for the networks?

Also Inside: Asus and Samsung pile on Microsoft and Windows 8

Also inside: Did CEO Tim Cook’s shareholder speech contain some code words indicating what Apple’s next product might be?

Also inside: Who stands to win and lose in the coming week at Mobile World Congress?

Also inside: Is HP abandoning Microsoft and Windows 8 in its upcoming tablet line?

Also inside: Microsoft wins and loses on tablets in the same week

Also inside: Lenovo wins big in Q4 thanks to Yoga and other tablets

Also Inside: The good, the bad, and the ugly of Microsoft’s Q4 2012 earnings

Also inside: A deeper dive into Intel’s Haswell and Broadwell mobile parts

Also inside: Why Microsoft had a strong showing, despite the absence of any knockout hardware

Also inside: Will $99 become the new low-end price point for tablets in the near future?

Also inside: The 5 most over-rated and under-rated tablet stories, events, and occurrences in 2012

Also Inside: Nokia gambles on Windows RT, and Apple loses big on Wall Street

Also inside: Now that Microsoft's Surface tablet is in retail channels, will we finally get some solid reporting on its success, or lack thereof?

Also inside: Is Microsoft on the precipice of disaster with Windows 8 tablets?

Also inside: Are magazine publishers seeing tablets resuscitate their businesses?

Last year, when Amazon released its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, people were skeptical about the form-factor. What are we wrong about now?

Also inside: Whither the iPad Mini?

Also inside: Are tablets going to replace the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in two years?

Q4 2012 will be the real tipping point for tablet adoption. Here’s why.

Also inside: MS Office for Android and iOS in March? And is RIM working on a second-generation BlackBerry PlayBook?

Also inside: Intel's dive into mobile CPUs puts the squeeze on Texas Instruments.

Rapidly establishing a phone-PC-tablet ecosystem is essential if Microsoft wants to make it to Windows 9

Also inside: Five surprising things we learned from Amazon's Kindle announcements

Do convertible tablets - all the rage at IFA this year - undermine the very essence of tablet computing?

With Surface, a new Kindle Fire and a possible 7-inch iPad, is there any room for competition?

Also inside: Apple climbs to unprecedented heights, Lenovo jumps the gun, and Motorola Mobility suffers

Also inside: Every tablet manufacturer puts up record sales figures in Q2 2012

Also inside: The Daily appears to falter…and Microsoft posts its first-ever quarterly loss

A week full of stories about big companies making moves with ambitious, high-end apps serves as a not-so-subtle reminder of the real selling point for most tablets.

…And three reasons why a smaller version of the iPad just might work

Also inside: Is this the end of RIM as we know it, and what happens next with Windows 8 tablets?

Also inside: Will RIM post its worst-ever earnings this week?

Also inside: Apple plays it safe at WWDC, and ASUS releases its tablet/smartphone laptop.

Also inside: Google’s acquisition of Quickoffice may force Microsoft’s hand on Office for iPad

If tablet manufacturers were Great Houses in Game of Thrones, how would it map out?

Also inside: Cisco bids sayonara to the Cius, and Yahoo does the same with LiveStand.

Also inside: Why does Google keep blowing its Android OS rollouts?

Also inside: Citrix makes a household pitch that counts, and Intel attacks ARM on Windows 8 compatibility.

Two years into the tablet revolution, we know one thing for sure: Unless you’re Apple, your tablet platform is only as good as your partnerships, your licenses, and your investments.

Also inside: The cause of blurry text on the new iPad is…licensing?

Also inside: RIM’s big loss, Dropbox’ continuing siege, and Microsoft’s tremendous upside with Windows 8.