The Surface tablet may be generating headlines, but Microsoft isn’t the only company making Windows RT tablets for launch this October: its hardware partners Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Samsung have all been beavering away

Microsoft’s much-wanted Surface tablet will go on sale in October, but its price could be much, much lower than anybody expected: according to Engadget, “the Surface for Windows RT tablet will be launching October 26th… at a compelling price of $199

What’s the most important thing potential tablet owners take into consideration? Here’s a clue: it begins with “a” and ends with “pps”. According to the latest data from comScore, the app ecosystem is the single biggest consideration for new tablet buyers, with even price coming second

Stop saving for a PlayStation 4 or Xbox 720: your next games console will be a tablet. That’s what Cevat Yerli reckons might happen, anyway, and as boss of Crysis creator Crytek he knows a thing or two about the games business.

When Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablets, its own-brand Windows 8 tablet computers, many pundits suggested that the move might annoy Microsoft’s existing hardware partners. To date, most of them have kept quiet – but Acer, the world’s third-largest computer manufacturer, is clearly miffed

Apple’s iPad has been a huge success – and now it’s an even bigger one. In the world’s biggest market, China, the iPad has the biggest market share – in fact, its market share is bigger than anywhere else in the world

You don’t expect tech firms to leak their own products, but Samsung appeared to do just that this week when its Pakistan division’s Facebook page posted an image of an unknown phone

Microsoft has announced the intended launch date for its Surface tablet, and it’s not too far away: in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it says that “the next version of our operating system, Windows 8, will be generally available on October 26

It looks like Sony’s bringing its tablets under its Xperia umbrella: a leaked slideshow showing an upcoming Xperia tagblet has been leaked by XDA-Developers member QSP, who says he or she works for Sony

One thing that might help sell more Nexus 7s is a range of accessories to make the tablet even more useful, and you’ll never guess what Google’s just about to release… that’s right! Accessories

In June, PC giant Lenovo showed off its forthcoming Windows 8 slate – and thanks to a leaked spec sheet and brochure image, we’ve got a much better idea of what’s inside and outside it

Another week, another bunch of iPad rumours – but the closer we get to the all-important pre-Christmas shopping season, the more solid the rumours are becoming. The latest batch suggest we’ll see not one, but two new iPads this year

Huawei, the firm behind the Ascend D quad-core smartphone, has unveiled its latest bids for world domination: the MediaPad 10 FHD tablet, and the MediaPad 7 Lite

Asus seems to have the tablet market covered: it’s got the low-end market sown up with its Google-branded Nexus 7 tablet, and it’s taking aim at the very top of the tablet market with its Transformer Pad Infinity 700