Tablets

Google Brings Chrome and Drive to iPhone and iPad, Docs Goes Offline

Google

Google is launching versions of its Chrome browser and Google Drive app for iPhones and iPads. The company also announced offline editing for Google Docs.

Google’s Nexus 7 and Nexus Q: A Photo Tour of the New Hardware

Jared Newman / TIME.com

Android was the main focus at the Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, with announcements for the Nexus 7 tablet and a strange streaming device dubbed the Nexus Q. Here’s a closer look.

Google Unveils $199 Nexus 7 Tablet, New Android Software and More

Google

Google’s day-one keynote from the 2012 I/O developer conference has officially wrapped up. We’ll have plenty of analysis directly from the show, but here’s a quick look at what’s been announced so far.

Liveblog: Google I/O 2012 Day One Keynote

Google I/O

Google’s I/O conference is so jam-packed with news that it features not one but two keynotes. We’ll be at both of them, and will relay the news to you as fast as it happens. Join us here for keynote #1 today at 12:30pm ET (9:30am PT).

Google I/O Conference: Five Questions I’d Like to See Answered

Beck Diefenbach / Reuters

Google kicks off its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco today. I’ll be at the conference along with Harry McCracken, and though I’m looking forward to the big announcements, I’m also hoping to hear answers to the following questions.

Per Apple Request, Judge Orders Samsung to Halt Galaxy Tablet Sales

Reuters

A judge late Tuesday ordered Samsung Electronics Co. to halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the court considers Apple’s claim the South Korean tech giant illegally copied the design of the popular iPad.

Are Notebooks Becoming Relics?

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When I witness many vendors’ excitement around notebooks, I’m sensing they’re investing in the past, not in the future. Rarely am I struck with such a feeling, but that’s exactly the feeling I’ve been having lately.

The Secret Origin of Surface

The New York Times says that Microsoft worried that PC hardware makers would fail to come up with compelling iPad rivals on their own.

TechRadar’s Surface Hands-On Is an Actual Surface Hands-On

After a flurry of first impressions based on very little information, a tech site provides a slightly more well-rounded take on Microsoft’s upcoming tablet.

It Costs Just $1.36 to Charge an iPad Each Year – iPhone Even Cheaper

Apple

That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.

Why Microsoft’s Surface Unveiling Was So Vaporous

Bill Gates Tablet PC Demo

When Microsoft unveils products, it never, ever tells you all you might want to know about them all at once.