Tablet computing has a long and tortured evolution. We can trace its roots all the way back to 1915. That’s when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent for a handwriting recognition ...

The pen, as they say, is mightier than the sword. And the stylus, a pen designed for controlling the computer, has been an enduring presence throughout the history of machine interfaces. While it took ...

The evolution of technology is sometimes cruel. A few years ago, we witnessed the birth of a new breed of small 10-inch Windows laptops called “netbooks.” These compact computers shunned processing ...

Now we know that Motorola’s upcoming tablet with Honeycomb (Android 2.4) is going to be shown at CES, because Motorola just amazed everyone with a short teaser video that has great music and describes ...

Slow sales are leading the company to stop producing the Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet, whose touch screen let people draw images directly onto the monitor. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...