Why developers choose the Amazon app store: fewer apps, ease of porting, and pending global expansion

While the iOS app store has well over 800,000 active apps and Google Play sports more than 600,000, the Amazon app store has only about 75,000.

That's a very good thing -- if you're an app developer.

Viewsonic announces new line of smart & touchscreen displays

Viewsonic debuted a new line of touchscreen display monitors at the 2013 CES today that are targeted at the next generation of PCs.

The top 10 apps to show off your new tablet (holiday 2012 edition)

If you've got a new tablet, you'll need some apps that show off its gorgeous, touch-enabled screen. Here are 10 apps perfect for your iPad or Android tablet.

HP’s got lots of Windows 8 products but not the right brand

HP has a lot of products, but not as much splash and media attention as Apple.

iPad mini compared: Is it the best 7-inch tablet?

Apple claims that the iPad mini is the best 7-inch tablet in the world. Are they right? We take a look at it versus the competition.

Google rallies its troops for better-quality Android tablet apps

Android tablet apps are notoriously of mixed quality. Google hopes to correct that -- and fast, since holiday sales are coming up soon.

Galaxies still colliding as Samsung adds iPhone 5 to infringement suit, gets Tab ban lifted

They said they were going to do it. Now they've done it.

Game streaming lives on as Big Fish launches 100 cloud games on Android devices

Big Fish Games announced today that its cloud gaming service will now be available on Android tablets. The company’s Big Fish Unlimited service debuted a month ago on web-connected PCs as a casual gaming service with more than 100 games …

An Apple-lover’s take on the Nexus 7

All tablets are not created equal. A fact not lost on this reporter, who, at the age of three, learned to love Apple by using the very first Macintosh. Reared on the Apple doctrine, I now demand excellence in hardware, …

Google Nexus 7 tablet details leak: Android 4.1, $200, & other juicy bits

Google’s heavily rumored Nexus 7 tablet will include a 1.3-GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB of RAM, and will start at $200, according to a detailed report by Gizmodo Australia.

With Google’s I/O conference starting Wednesday, chatter about the …

Tablet sales to reach 119M units in 2012, 369M in 2016

Consumers the world round have fallen so hard for the charms of tablets that sales are expected to balloon by 98 percent this year.

Research firm Gartner forecasts that tablet sales will reach 118.9 million units this year, up from …

RIM drops most-expensive BlackBerry PlayBook models to $299

Research in Motion appears to be celebrating the new year with an extraordinary price drop on its struggling BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, with all models now ringing in at $299.

RIM had already cut the price of its 16GB PlayBook model …

Google is making its own tablet, and in 6 months you can buy it

Google chairman Eric Schmidt announced in an interview today that the company was looking to launch its own tablet within the next six months.

In a conversation with Italian publication Carriere Della Sera, Schmidt spoke briefly about the iPad and …

Hands on with just-announced T-Mobile Springboard tablet

Chinese mobile manufacturer Huawei on Tuesday announced its 7-inch Springboard for T-Mobile, a new Android tablet that will compete with other 7-inch tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 and the red-hot Amazon Kindle Fire.

Android tablets have failed …

Trulia brings its real estate expertise to Android with tablet, rentals apps

Online real estate finder Trulia is launching a big play on Android this morning with two new apps: an Android tablet app, and an app made specifically for renters.

Both apps show the increasing importance of mobile for Trulia, which …

Google Earth comes to Android tablets

Google announced today that it’s bringing its 3D mapping tool Google Earth to Android tablets.

The product was demonstrated at the Social-Loco conference during the presentation from Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of location and local services. I’m not a …