Reuters RIM BlackPad Expected To Compete with Apple's iPadTop Tech NewsResearch In Motion is expected to introduce the BlackPad to compete with rival Apple's iPad, which currently dominates the tablet market. RIM recently acquired blackpad.com, and is also expected to introduce the BlackBerry...

Reuters RIM answers Apple iPad with…The BlackPad*RegisterBlackBerry maker Research in Motion is preparing to launch an iPad competitor in November, and it will be called the BlackPad, according to a report citing two people familiar with the company's plans. Bloomberg reports that the RIM...

Telegraph.co.uk £100 Kindle Gateway to an eBook RevolutionTrustedReviewsHas the slashed price of Amazon's new reader signalled the beginning of the end for the printed page? On Thursday Amazon took us – and I suspect all eBook reader manufacturers – by surprise with the announcement...

Reuters RIM set to join the tablet fray this fall with "Blackpad"Ars TechnicaCorroborating a rumor from The Wall Street Journal earlier this summer, a new Bloomberg report cited "two people familiar with the company's plans" to build an iPad-like touchscreen device and …RIM...

New York Daily News Windows 7 Tablets: Just Say No, MicrosoftPC WorldMicrosoft is busy at work on a new tablet computer design, a product that may arrive from one or more of its hardware partners in "not a heck of a long time," CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday. …Ballmer...

TrustedReviews Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn't get the iPadArs Technica"The operating system is called Windows," claimed Steve Ballmer when asked about Microsoft's plans for the tablet/slate/pad form factor at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday....

TrustedReviews Making the Case for a Microsoft PhonePC WorldThere's a good chance that Microsoft will build a “Microsoft phone” at some point, simply because the temptation may prove irresistible. Should Microsoft build a phone of its own? Over at Ars Technica, Peter Bright is arguing that...

TrustedReviews Analyst's View: Microsoft's Tablet is Coming! Well, Not ReallyPC MagazineMuch has been made in the last 24 hours about Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer's vague references to a Microsoft tablet competitor to the iPad. But the truth is that there isn't a story...

New York Daily News Four reasons Steve Ballmer may be obsessed with killing the iPadInfoWorldFor reasons that aren't immediately evident, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has declared that his "job-one urgency" is killing the iPad instead of building an even better operating system in Windows...

New York Daily News Microsoft, Get Back to Work!PC WorldSteve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple iPad. It is also putting the finishing touches on Windows Phone 7, …Microsoft should...