Research firm Strategy Analytics estimate that about 10.5 million Android tablets were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s more than a 300 percent jump from a year earlier, and the increase in Android tablet shipments means that Android devices now make up about 39 percent of overall tablet sales. But one thing that wasn’t in Strategy Analytics original…

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Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, about 26.8…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says that one day tablets will outsell PCs. He has good reason to think so, because iPads are out-selling Mac computers by 3 to 1. And it appears an awful lot of people got new tablets during the 2011 holidays. Juniper Research predicts that by 2016, PC makers could ship as many as 178 million ultrabooks…

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Tablets and eBook readers may have grabbed a lot of headlines in 2011, but it looks like sales of the devices may have really taken off during the holiday season. The Pew Research Center has conducted surveys over the last few years to see how many people in America have eReaders and tablets — and the numbers nearly doubled from…

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Chinese chip maker Rockchip promised to bring more than 30 tablets to the Consumer Electronics Show, and while I didn’t do a complete tablet count, the Rockchip booth was choc full of tablets and handheld devices including phones and media players. The big news is that a number of tablets using the company’s latest 1.2 GHz RK2918 processor are running…

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BlueStacks has been offering software that allows Android apps to run natively on Windows 7 for a while, so it’s not surprising that the company plans to turn its attention next to Windows 8. But this week the company started showing a demo of its Android on Windows 8 software that certainly makes a compelling case for blurring the lines…

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It’s been a year since Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would run on devices with ARM-based processors as well as computers with x86 chips. But while a Windows 8 developer preview has been available for months, it currently only runs on x86 chips. Today NVIDIA showed off a tablet with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor running Windows 8. We didn’t…

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When we last checked in on Fusion Garage, Brad had declared the company only mostly dead. Today, however, it appears as though it’s time to put on the toe tag and zip up the bag: Fusion Garage is done. On January 20th, the company’s creditors will be sitting down with representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers and taking a good, hard look Fusion…

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Chinese chip maker Rockchip plans to show off tablets from 35 to 40 different brands at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The company’s 1.2 GHz RK2918 ARM-based processor supports Android 4. Ice Cream Sandwich and it’s likely that at least some of the new devices will use Google’s new operating system. Most of the companies that produce tablets with Rockchip CPUs…

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Mozilla has released version 9 of the Firefox web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The latest update is also the first to include a new tablet-friendly user interface for devices running Android 3.0 and up. Like the mobile phone version of the app, Firefox for tablets lets you access browser tabs by sliding from left to right across…

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Research in Motion has released a new beta version of the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system. PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 for the tablet feels smother and faster than the previous beta nad fixes a number of quirks. But there’s bad news for anyone that’s rooted a PlayBook using Dingleberry. Update: Now you can use Dingleberry 3.0 to downgrade your tablet so that…

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Ok, you’ve installed the PlayBook OS 2 beta. You’ve rooted your PlayBook. Now it’s time to get the Android Market up and running on your PlayBook. Why? Because while it’s certainly cool that PlayBook OS 2 lets you run repackaged Android apps that have been converted to RIM’s .BAR format, it’s way cooler to just install them as if you’re…

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