Dedicated e-readers’ days could be numbered, according to a new survey by iSuppli: the firm reckons that demand for e-readers has peaked and will soon collapse, and it’s all because of tablets

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

According to a leaked document, Blackforest is a brand new tablet that’s due to launch in late 2013. Running the latest BB10 operating system, Blackforest will have a 10-inch screen and may have as much as 128GB of storage.

Here’s an interesting coincidence: just days after Google’s Nexus 7 tablet gets a warm reception, the iPad mini rumour factory kicks into overdrive. Apple’s making an iPad mini, the rumours say, and it’s going into production in September. It’ll have a seven-inch, 1024×768 touchscreen, it’ll run all your favourite apps, and it’ll sell squillions

We’re just days away from Google’s annual conference, and details of its forthcoming Nexus tablet are beginning to leak – although the most recent leak merely shows ceiling tiles

If the current tablet frenzy is a bubble, it’s a long way from going pop: the latest statistics and surveys suggest that the public’s love of tablet computers is still burning strong

Compared to the Christmas shopping period, the new year tends to show a bit of a slump — but according to IDC, while the overall market did indeed slump by some 38.4%, Amazon’s fall was particularly dramatic: not only did Amazon sell fewer tablets, but its market share dropped dramatically too

Has Google lost control of Amazon? That’s what the latest set of sales figures suggest, because the world’s favourite Android firm is now Amazon

Fancy a Kindle? You might like to hang on: Amazon has announced that it’s making not one, not two but three new Kindle tablets to go on sale this year. Aimed at the budget, mid-range and high end markets respectively

Rumours suggest that Google intends to do to Amazon what Amazon did to Apple by making an Android tablet that’s significantly cheaper than a Kindle Fire: the Google Nexus tablet could cost as little as $150

Apple’s iPad dominates the world of consumer tablets – and despite the best efforts of rival firms such as BlackBerry creator RIM, it looks set to dominate business tablets too

We began 2011 full of excitement: not only was the iPad 2 imminent, but we were giddy with excitement at the prospect of the BlackBerry PlayBook, HP’s TouchPad and a range of Android Honeycomb devices. Twelve months on and while the market’s moved on.

Reviews of HP’s ill-fated TouchPad were unanimous: the hardware wasn’t anything special, but the operating system, WebOS, was great. When HP killed off its WebOS tablet, pundits began to speculate: would it die with the tablet? Would it be sold to a rival firm, such as Amazon? Would HP keep it locked away forever?

Fancy getting your hands on an Android tablet? You might want to wait until after Christmas. According to news site DigiTimes, “waves of price cuts” are coming as manufacturers struggle to shift unsold stock.