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Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.…

iPad owners are happier with their tablets than folk with other fondleslabs are with theirs, recent research reveals.…

Windows 8 and Microsoft's next major phone operating system will merge, if reports are correct.…

RIM is offering software coders free tablets if they'll make their Android apps available through its PlayBook app store.…

A previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…

Fujitsu has outed a non-descript 7in Android tablet that it'll be pitching at big business when the gadget goes on sale later this month.…

Asus has denied that its Eee Pad Transformer Prime is suffering from the quality issues one retailer has claimed have necessitated withdrawing the Android tablet from sale.…

Average broadband speeds in Blighty are on the up, communications watchdog Ofcom concluded in a report published this morning.…

Apple's iPad 3 will not have the same processor as its predecessor.…

The Munich Regional Court has chucked out an Apple request to impose a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and on the South Korean giant's Galaxy Nexus smartphone.…

Don't call wireless networks that operate at frequencies formerly reserved for TV transmissions "Wi-Fi", the owner of the brand has warned.…

Amazon France may have leaked the release date for Apple's next iteration of its überpopular fondleslab, the iPad.…

Product round-up The most probable reasons for printing A3 documents are 1) posters or folded A4 newsletters, and 2) large photos. The types of printer needed for these two requirements are different. For posters and newsletters you want a machine intended primarily for plain paper print and it will save time if it can print duplex. For photos, you’re more interested in high quality output, often with more than four ink colours in the mix.…

Apple's demand that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned from sale in Germany has been once again confirmed by a German court.…

You can pick up the real thing cheaply enough on eBay, but that hasn't stopped retro-computing fan and Lego nut from knocking up a version out of the plastic bricks.…

Can this be the world's most expensive laptop?…

Apple is now the world's leading personal computer seller, having pushed past HP in Q4 2011, market watcher Canalys said today.…

How many Kindle Fires did Amazon ship during the last few months of 2011? The online retailer isn't saying, but ask Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, a broker, and he'll put the figure at 6m units.…

The Western world will continue to lead demand for tablets over the next six years, with growth driven by ever higher screen resolutions.…

Amazon's Kindle Fire has grabbed more than a third of the overall Android tablet usage activity in less than three months on sale.…