TABLET PC

Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC brand, posted a better-than-expected 88 percent rise in second-quarter profit, helped by acquisitions and an increase in sales in emerging markets such as China.

While the option to pre-order will only be available in the U.S., Japan and Korea, OCOSMOS says it will soon begin to market products in other countries. The OCS9 will feature the smart O-bar, which attracted the interest of many last September at the Intel Developer Forum.

Explosive growth of the tablet sector, compared to tepid PCs sales, have led market researcher Gartner to conclude the computer industry is irrevocably shifting to tablets.

Microsoft has released an early version of its upcoming operating system, Windows 8 on a prototype Samsung tablet last week and experts believe the hybrid software could win the ground Microsoft lost to Apple.

After Microsoft's preview of its upcoming operating system, Windows 8, on a prototype Samsung tablet at a conference in Anaheim, Calif., on Tuesday, tech savvy people have reportedly come up with prophecies of the downfall of Apple's iPad.

Intel Corp. is putting significant weight behind ultra-slim Ultrabook in the Intel Developer Forum, which would be a threat to Apple Inc.'s iPad and MacBook Air.

Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to introduce an Android-based tablet in the fourth quarter, according to Jefferies' proprietary checks, media reports and blogs that it monitors.

Samsung and HTC released devices at IFA with a range of form-factors which includes 4.5-inch, 5.3-inch and 7.7-inch displays.

The recent brigade of 10.1-inch tablets had rendered the 7-inch form factor redundant until Samsung released a new 7.7-inch Galaxy Tab at the ongoing trade show IFA in Germany.

Undeterred by reports of HP TouchPad's demise and Android tablets' anemic sales, HTC has announced the launch of HTC Jetstream, an Android tablet for AT&T's upcoming 4G LTE network.

A list of inexpensive Android tablets available on Best Buy.

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential patent at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. RBC Capital Markets said the deal value of $12.5 billion equates to 0.7 times trailing twelve months (TTM) of equity value-to-sales.

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash to defend its Android ecosystem. Rising IP threats to Android from Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. were the primary driver of the acquisition, RBC Capital Markets said.

Dell's confusion over tablet format has ended, as it retired its part-tablet and part-smartphone, the 5-inch Dell Streak, in favor of bigger tablets.

Up until now, Apple's iPad has largely monopolized the tablet market, but not any more. Pierre Cardin has just come up with a tablet computer which focuses on being fashionable as well as useful.

Luxury goods maker Pierre Cardin took a plunge into the tablet landscape with a 7-inch Android tablet under the moniker PC-7006.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced five new handsets that run on its new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, in a bid to regain ground against rivals like Apple.

Computer maker Dell Inc. entered the 10.1-inch tablet race by releasing its Android Honeycomb tablet, Dell Streak 10 Pro, especially for the Chinese market. However, the tablet has to deal with the iconic Apple iPad 2, as the benchmark for design and performance has been set by the Cupertino giant.

Six months after launching a 7-inch Android tablet at CES 2011, computer maker Dell has released a 10-inch Android tablet especially for the Chinese market.

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.'s (NYSE: MMI) launch of several sub-$200 smartphones for emerging markets will boost units but hurt average selling prices in third quarter, Jefferies said.

A slideshow that elucidates specifciations and pictures of the top 6 tablets other than iPad 2 which can give Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 a run for its money: