There’s more to Samsung than being sued by Apple: it’s been busy making some new tablets, and the results are the Series 5 and Series 7 range

Sony unveiled three new tablets last week: the Xperia Tablet S, The Vaio Duo 11 “tabtop” and the enormous Viao Tap 20

You don’t revolutionise Android gaming every day, but that’s what Archos reckons it’s done with its new GamePad tablet

When Samsung released the Samsung Galaxy Note, pundits created a new category to describe it: the big phone / small tablet was dubbed a “phablet” to reflect the fact that nobody seemed entirely sure what it was. It’s been a surprise hit for the firm, and as a result it’s back with a host of improvements

It’s been a busy month for Asus: not only is it showing off its new Transformer Book PC/tablet hybrid, but it’s also got a pair of new tablets for us to look at. The Vivo Tab and Vivo Tab RT and Windows 8 devices

The lines between laptops and tablets have been blurring for some time, helped by firms such as Asus with its Transformer range of dockable slates. Now the firm is coming at the hardware from a different direction.

When Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet, which goes on sale in October, CEO Steve Ballmer strongly suggested that Microsoft didn’t intend to compete with its many hardware partners: the Surface would be a relatively small-scale operation designed to “prime the pump” and inspire other hardware firms

It’s not a great time to be HP: the tech giant just posted its biggest-ever loss, a whopping $8.9 billion

Remember when laptop computers outsold desktop PCs, and everybody danced around delighted that we were living in the future? Maybe that was just us – and we’re going to dance again very soon, because laptops appear to be going the way of the desktop

If you’re not on the receiving end, a really damning review can be fascinating. We can’t imagine Samsung’s marketing people are too chuffed, though, because their Galaxy 10.1 tablet has received the mother of bad reviews from the Android Police website

Could the new Gen10 XS tablet line, which Archos says creates “a new standard of thin for tablets”, make the world take it more seriously?

When it comes to tablets, Apple’s still the undisputed king of the hill: record sales in the last financial quarter recovered all the ground it had lost to rivals and more, giving the firm an extraordinary 70% share of the 24.4 million tablets sold between April and June

Good news for iPad owners who also have Sky+ boxes: Sky has just updated its iPad app so you can use your tablet to control your TV. You can move between channels, pause live TV and plan your viewing

We’re getting closer and closer to Apple’s September iPhone event, and the rumour mill is increasingly convinced that we’ll see a new, smaller iPad either during the event or shortly afterwards