Sony’s superthin Xperia Tablet Z hits the U.S. in May for $500

Sony's Xperia Tablet Z, one of the sexiest Android tablets we've ever seen, will come to the United States this year at a base price of $500.

CloudOn completes its mobile invasion by putting Microsoft Office on Android phones

After successfully bringing Microsoft Office to the iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets, CloudOn is today announcing support for Android phones with version 4.0 of its app.

Forrester’s top 10 trends for mobile in 2013

You can sum up Forrester's prognostications on 2013 trends for mobile in three little words.

HP pins its mobile hopes on Android (in vain)

After failing with Palm's intriguing WebOS platform, HP is now looking to Android for a future tablet and smartphone. But at this point, will it really matter?

iFixit: If you try to repair the Surface Pro, you’re probably gonna break it

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro tablet PC is a steady improvement over the Surface RT, but the thing is extremely hard to repair.

Mobile enterprise report: costs up, control down, BYOD soaring, and IT getting frustrated

It's tough to be in IT these days. Everyone wants to Bring Their Own Device (or two), get the company to pay for it, and beg the front-line geeks for help when it goes on the fritz.

800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says

By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use. 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro: A better tomorrow (review)

For all of its failures as a pure tablet, the Surface Pro is a compelling offering as an ultraportable/tablet hybrid.

Apple becomes ‘most popular mobile vendor’ in global internet usage

But in spite of its strong showing, it's not all sweetness and light for Cupertino. Apple's share is not growing -- anymore -- so much as Nokia's is falling.

Samsung’s stylus love affair continues: Buys 5% of Wacom for $58.2M

You may think Samsung is crazy for bringing back the stylus in the touchscreen smartphone age, but the surprisingly strong sales of its Galaxy Note smartphone line don't lie.

Surface sales may be worse than you think, with high return rates

Microsoft sold a paltry number of Surface tablets in the last quarter -- somewhere between 680,000 and 750,000 units -- the research firm IHS iSuppli estimates.

BlackBerry isn’t giving up on the PlayBook yet — tablet-focused services in the works

While the new BlackBerry smartphones were the stars of today's launch event, the company isn't forgetting about the PlayBook tablets already on the market.

Amazon shares up 11% as ‘multi-billion-dollar’ ebooks category growing 70% annually

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos largely credited the strong earnings increase to ebooks, which he said is now a multi-billion dollar category for Amazon.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet vs. Galaxy Note 2

Samsung hasn't yet officially confirmed the Galaxy Note 8.0, but the plethora of leaks online have pretty much blown the surprise.

Microsoft: Cheaper Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets coming

Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8-running Surface Pro may cost an internal organ plus a year's servitude, but price relief -- and other Windows tablets -- sound like they're coming soon.