Tablet News

Motorola's Xoom tablet costs $278 to build, just $33 more than Apple's iPad, according to breakdown analysis by UBM TechInsights and research firm iSuppli.

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said sales of its highly-anticipated Xoom tablet are off to a "good start," though he declined to provide specific numbers.

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the iPad as a suitable alternative to paper-based flight charts after three months of testing.

Book retailer Barnes & Noble is planning a version of its Nook for Android app for Android 3.0 tablets, in a move to help its e-reader compete against Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad devices.

Immigrants and first-generation Americans are buying tablets -- especially the iPad -- at nearly three times the rate of the general public, according to research firm Rebtel.

Educational publishers are joining the flurry of activity surrounding the tablet market and are agreeing to provide more content for the devices.

Verizon dropped the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, clearing its inventory for the wave of new "Honeycomb" tablets arriving over the next month.

News Corp. said it will extend the free two-week trial period of "The Daily," its iPad-exclusive magazine, to "several more weeks," due to launch glitches that kept subscribers from viewing the app.

Verizon promised early Motorola Xoom buyers a free upgrade to 4G when it's available in the "second half of the year," but they'll have to ship it back to the company and wait up to six business days.

Barnes & Noble is narrowing the gap with the likes of Amazon, Google and Apple, but the gains are coming at the cost of profits and dividends for investors.

OverDrive today released a free app for the iPad, allowing users to "check out" over 400,000 e-books, audio books and videos from 13,000 participating libraries, directly from their tablet.

Verizon today said it will sell the Motorola Xoom tablet for a $600 with a two-year contract starting tomorrow.

Apple plans to announce its much-anticipated iPad 2 at an event on March 2, according to people familiar with the matter.

Adobe today said its Flash software will arrive to new Android-based tablets within "a few weeks," allowing the Google devices to view high-definition multimedia online.

The much-anticipated launch of the next iPad may be delayed by two months due to production bottlenecks at one of Apple's suppliers, according to Taiwan-based Yuanta Securities, citing people familiar with the matter.