tablets - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Goodbye, tablets

  Remember when tablets were hotter than hot and were going to replace PCs? Er, yeah, about that: I don’t think so.

• SA Police tablet rollout set to begin in earnest

  Panasonic Toughbook tablets will be installed in police cars across South Australia as a replacement for fixed in-car devices.

• Acer puts liquid cooling in its Switch Alpha 12 tablet

  One wouldn't typically imagine liquid cooling in a tablet, but Acer has pulled it off with its latest Switch Alpha 12.

• Intel's tablet adventure looking more like its netbook disaster

  Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.

• Windows tablet growth puts shine on Microsoft's enterprise prospects

  Enterprises will increasingly look to Windows and Android as the number of workers equipped with tablets grows over the next three years.

• Delete iPad documents in iTunes

  If you're an iPad user, you may have discovered a rather strange quirk in iTunes. Although the program makes it blissfully easy to add documents to certain apps by way of its File Sharing feature, there appears to be no way to delete those documents.

• BYOD is as entrenched (and complicated) as ever

  The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years now, and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still grappling with how to make it work.

• Android 6.0 M Marshmallow -- will it finally kill off Apple iOS?

  Google has confirmed the name of Android M -- Marshmallow. The new version will first make it to the expected new Nexus devices due for release later this year. Soon after, it'll be available for OTA upgrades for older pure-Android shinies. But after that, who knows?

• All signs point to the demise of Microsoft's Surface tablet

  Microsoft seems to be within a whisker of calling it quits on its failed experiment with the Surface tablet, the device powered by the ARM architecture and Windows RT, an offshoot of Windows 8.

• Is the ASUS X205 Microsoft's Chromebook killer?

  The ASUS X205 is one of three Windows 8.1 notebooks, all released in November, designed to halt the encroachment of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2290210/wireless/119373-8-reasons-why-Chromebooks-aren-t-going-away.html">Chromebooks</a> into the low-end Windows notebook market. (The other two are the HP Stream 11 and HP Stream 13.)

• Apple's 12-inch iPad makes no sense at all!

  Apple intends introducing a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2599404/tablets/big-ipad-pro-q1-release-date-itbwcw.html">12.9-inch iPad model</a>, and there's some who may think doing so makes no sense at all. They're wrong. Here's why:

Whitepapers about tablets

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  Transforming classrooms with cross-platform technology

  IT decision makers for the education industry have typically worked on a singular OS as simplicity was key. However, students and teachers today have access to a variety of mobile devices and being able to work and share educational resources on their platform of choice is crucial. <p> Find out the importance and benefits of cross-platform collaboration and how you can transform classrooms into future-ready digital schools

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  Guidelines for maintaining business continuity for your organisation

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  Five Steps to enabling a mobile workforce

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  Important considerations for integrating IT and combining business processes in a merger or acquisition