Five years ago, on November 7 2002, Microsoft launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Bill Gates himself was on-hand to launch the new platform at a large press event. “The launch of the Tablet PC ...

The operating system that once powered devices like the Palm Pre and the HP TouchPad is getting another crack at life. A group of developers have taken the source code HP released a few years ago and ...

The tablet, slate and pad, or Apple iPad, category is barely hatched, but the operating system wars are well worth noting. Let's consider the moving parts: Apple powers the iPad with its iPhone ...

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Remember the Freescale Smart Tablet from CES earlier this year? Well, it’s returned with a range of compatible operating systems which now includes Android, Chromium OS, or Linux. Freescale says that ...

[timecom-gdgt url=”http://gdgt.com/hp/slate/” style=”full” float=”right”] On a company earnings call yesterday, Hewlett Packard’s Todd Bradley made ...

China's Huawei has begun talks with Russia about installing Russian operating system (OS) Aurora on 360,000 of its tablets to conduct Russia's population census next year, two sources told Reuters. By ...

But it’s the only tablet operating system that lets you run both big applications and smaller apps. As for Windows 8 as an operating system for traditional computers, it’s not a winner, because its ...