Tablets may have been introduced as minimalist laptop alternatives that specialized in a few broad tasks, but those days are long in their past. Rather, there's been a wide range of efforts to play up ...

Tablets are facing strong competition from an unexpected segment of the computing industry: smart phones. Just as tablets have chipped away at PCs in recent years, in coming years larger smart phones ...

Intel has launched two new Android-based tablets designed for education. The 7- and 10-inch multi-touch display tablets both feature Intel Atom processors and Google's Android operating system, as ...

One Laptop per Child and Marvell have joined forces to create a tablet computer that delivers a a better educational experience for schoolchildren in developing countries. This partnership may go a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — News Corp. on Monday named its grade school education business Amplify and said it and AT&T would fund a pilot project that aims to put tablet computers in students' hands in the ...

Microsoft is cutting more than half the price off its Surface RT tablet for schools, colleges, and universities. Microsoft announced the temporary discount program at the ISTE 2013 conference taking ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Mobile computing has taken over. The higher education community already ...

This spring, fourth-graders in a Tallahassee, Fla., classroom chronicled the life cycle of plants. Preschoolers in Mesa, Ariz., practiced Spanish, and special education students in Phoenix ...

Richard Mahapatra, a 42-year-old journalist, recently attended a parent-teacher meeting at his daughter’s private school in Delhi. During the meeting, he said, teachers encouraged him to buy a tablet.