Good news and bad news for Microsoft this week: the good news is that analysts expect sales of Windows tablets to be significant; the bad is that they don’t think it’ll happen before 2016

Good news for fans of new tablets that look a bit like iPads but which are slightly different to existing ones: Toshiba has a new tablet, and it’s slightly different to another Toshiba tablet that also looks a bit like an iPad. The new one is the AT300SE

Here are two incredible bits of information: the iPad’s only been around since January 2010, and in that short time tablet use has exploded to the point where more than half of US adults own either a smartphone or a tablet computer

If you thought the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 tablets were cheap, have we got a surprise for you: the Matrix One tablet undercuts both by a significant margin – and by significant we don’t mean a few pounds

All tablets can play games, but not all tablets are gaming tablets. Enter the Wikipad, an Android-powered tablet designed specifically for gamers

There are so many firms making tablets now that it’s probably quicker to list the firms who don’t make them: Gregg’s the bakers, JD Sports, Toys’R'Us… actually, forget that last one, because Toys’R'Us is now also Tablets’R'Us. It isn’t really changing its name, but it is getting into the tablet business

While Amazon was getting to unveil the latest Kindle Fires, Kobo showed off the Arc: an Android tablet with a low price (£160) and a November release date. There’s a black one and a white one, but whichever you choose you’ll get a 7-inch, 1280×800 display powered by a 1.5GHz dual core processo

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

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.

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?

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

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

Good news for comic fans: DC Comics has teamed up with Barnes & Noble to bring some of the world’s favourite graphic novels to the tablet, following in the footsteps of its arch-rival Marvel

NEC has announced two new tablets for the Japanese market, and they may well make it over here: the LifeTouch L tablets come in two flavours, with one aimed at individual users and the other aimed at business customers.