The BlackBerry maker took a $485 million charge related to PlayBook inventory.

Intel forms new group focused on phones, tablets and other mobile devices.

IBM makes the move in recognition of tablets' increased presence in the workplace.

The researchers found that HP's discontinued TouchPad sold better than Samsung's tablets.

Intel and MIPS jump on the Android 4.0 bandwagon quickly.

LPDDR3 will succeed LPDDR2 and ramp up performance in tablets and smartphones while consuming less power.

Hewlett-Packard said it will manufacture more TouchPads in response to "stunning" demand following the company's decision to discontinue the tablets.

At next week's Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) in Berlin, smartphone makers are expected to push the boundaries of the device's screen sizes, while also launching tablets and trying to accelerate the momentum for 3D-capable products.

A hot-button question lately in the rapidly-growing smartphone market: Can a company succeed at selling smartphones and tablets without owning the software and the hardware?

A group of developers plans to port Android to the HP TouchPad, which is being discontinued by HP.

HP also confirmed it is in acquisition talks with software maker Autonomy.

Acer and HP are set to offer new 7-inch tablets. Compact versions may be the next tablet battleground.

Intel hopes to rejuvenate interest in the PC market with Ultrabooks, which will bridge the gap between tablets and PCs.

ARM Holdings hopes to wrestle dominance of the mobile PC market from Intel and have ARM-based processors in more than half of all tablets, mini-notebooks and other mobile PCs sold in 2015, the company's president said Monday.

While much of the innovation these days seems to be happening in smartphones and tablets, Intel says big improvements lie ahead for the trusty PC.

Intel is speeding up the release of tablet chips in an attempt to close the power and performance gap with ARM, which dominates the tablet market, analysts said this week.

Tablets are the culmination of what Steve Jobs wanted to create at Apple from the beginning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Monday.

Intel expects tablets running its power-efficient chip code-named Oak Trail to become available next month, the company said on Friday.

Gartner on Thursday lowered its growth forecast for worldwide PC shipments in 2011, joining a growing number of analysts who believe Apple's iPad 2 will bridge the remaining gap between laptops and tablets this year.

Qualcomm on Tuesday said it is stepping up its software efforts as its chips begin supporting more operating systems, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, which will be targeted at mobile devices, tablets and PCs.