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 ...

At this point in time, no one can deny Apple has hit a home run with the iPad. While it may have its critics, the iPad has clearly redefined the market. Where people used to utilize a desktop computer ...

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed to mimic the look and feel of touch-first operating systems like iOS and Android. Developed by a Chinese company called Jingling, the operating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. New split-screen mode for tablets and screenshot feature borrowed from Android are telling signs New split-screen ...

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Tablets running a 64-bit version of Windows 8.1 on top of Intel’s 64-bit Atom processor, Bay Trail, are set to debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. They’ll be among the first ...

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 ...