The tablet, slate and pad, or Apple iPad, category is barely hatched, but the operating system wars are well worth noting. Let's consider the moving parts: Apple powers the iPad with its iPhone ...

When TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington first came up with the idea for the CrunchPad tablet, here’s what he wanted: A cheap touchscreen tablet that was pretty much just a screen and web browser. He ...

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed to mimic the look and feel of touch-first operating systems like iOS and Android. Developed by a Chinese company called Jingling, the operating ...

Microsoft has long maintained that Windows is its operating system of choice for tablets. But there’s increasing evidence that Windows Phone 7, not Windows, will be the operating system that Microsoft ...

But it’s the only tablet operating system that lets you run both big applications and smaller apps. As for Windows 8 as an operating system for traditional computers, it’s not a winner, because its ...