In a word: Apps. Apple is said to be planning a tablet, and it’ll live and die by its app store even more than the iPhone. Here’s what we’d need to be convinced to fork over our hard-earned dollars ...

The Google Play Store is mostly populated by smartphone apps, but it’s also the home to apps you can play on your tablet and Chromebook. The thing is, it can be hard to find apps that will run ...

Amazon has steadily improved its lineup of Fire tablets since 2022. But specs are only part of the equation. Without better software, these slates are as good as useless. Getting the Play Store on ...

Following this summer’s launch of the Google Pixel Tablet, the company says it’s updating its Google Play Store to better showcase apps designed for large-screen devices. The changes will help users ...

Google wants to make 2022 the year of Android tablets, and after launching a tablet-focused Android 12L update, staffing up an Android tablet division, and shipping one or two tablet apps, the company ...

Company launches an app store and development environment for companies to write, test and manage apps for its Android tablet, Cius. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet ships with a couple of great apps pre-loaded including Pandora, Netflix, a decent email app, and an excellent eBook reader. There’s also an app section of the B&N Shop ...

Apple executives answered a bunch of questions about the iPhone, the App Store, and the mysterious new device to be unveiled Wednesday during this afternoon’s conference call to discuss the company’s ...

Following the release of the Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold, Google wants developers to take big-screen apps more seriously. Asking nicely rarely works, so Google is changing the Play Store ranking ...

Apple has been taking a beating this week. Between its alleged censorship of the Ninjawords dictionary and its rejection of the Google Voice application, users and developers are riled up and angry.