When Amazon cut the price of its Kindle Fire for the Black Friday shopping weekend, the tablets flew off the shelves – in fact, they sold so quickly that Amazon managed to sell mumblemumble

Christmas is a time for loving, and for giving, and for having fisticuffs in shops over must-have gadgets. This year’s fisticuff instigators are likely to be small tablets, which seem set to be the must-have items in Santa’s sack

Windows 8 is less than a month old, and already some analysts are saying it’s too little, too late: according to UBS Securities analyst Steve Milunovich, Apple’s iOS software is “the new Windows”

Making a successful tablet isn’t easy. You need to get the right mix of components, and ensure that they’re powerful enough to deliver a silky-smooth experience. You need to find a price that won’t scare people off, while hopefully making a little bit of profit

No, we’re not pushing some dodgy auction deal: for Black Friday, Amazon has chopped £30 from the price of its Kindle Fire tablet until Monday the 26th of November

Good news! Microsoft’s Surface is the most popular small Windows RT out there! Bad news! That’s not saying much, and the sums could be wonky anyway!

If you’re reading this slumped on the sofa with a belly full of food you may be an early adopter of the hot new craze sweeping the planet: post-pie commerce.

We’ve had laptops, and we’ve had tablets, and we’ve even had “phablets”, which inhabit the middle ground between smartphones and tablets. Now it seems we need a new term to describe tablets such as Dell’s XPS12 Duo

When HP made its ill-fated TouchPad, the plan was to compete with Apple’s iPad. It wasn’t the most successful strategy, and HP briefly exited the tablet market altogether. Now, though, it’s back in business

The rumour really started on tech site The Verge, which claimed that Microsoft was building “Xbox Surface”. The device would be a gaming tablet, The Verge said, and it would be a seven-inch device. An allegedly leaked spec sheet added more details

Fancy a new tablet but don’t fancy paying full whack for it? Carphone Warehouse might have an offer for you: it’s reduced the price of a whole bunch of tablets

If you use your tablet to access work emails in the evenings or when you’re supposed to be on holiday, you’re not alone: two new studies have found that mobile devices are making the working week last longer and invade many people’s free time

Microsoft’s Surface RT is the flagship device for Windows RT, but it’s been attracting mixed reviews: the consensus appears to be that the Surface RT is a lovely bit of kit with less lovely software

Google’s Nexus 7 has been warmly received – so much so that when Apple launched the iPad mini, it spent an awful lot of time slagging off the Nexus in an unusually defensive manner – but one of its big weak points for many potential customers was the lack of a 3G version