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Manufacturers are having a field day with their new tablet PCs. Top vendors Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba say sales of their tablet PCs--tiny portable computers fitted with pens, touch screens and ...

Professional illustrators who work only with pen and paper are getting harder to find. Whether you’re creating your next masterpiece wholly on a computer, or polishing it off with digital detailing, a ...

Even as screen-based work replaces more and more of the time that people spend with paper, using a pencil remains a near-universal skill, for good reason. Drawing and writing by hand rank among the ...

As the line between the quality achievable with pro tablets and those aimed at casual consumers gets blurry, it’s also harder for many buyers to decide which product best fits their wants and needs.

Slow sales are leading the company to stop producing the Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet, whose touch screen let people draw images directly onto the monitor. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Astropad has offered its studio app for creative professionals that turns iPad into a Mac drawing tablet since 2017. Now after hearing lots of feedback from users, Astropad has launched a beta to ...

Poor battery life, slow processors and high costs slowed the uptake of tablet PCs but a new and more intuitive OS coupled with improved hardware could change all that When Microsoft chairman Bill ...