These days the Internet has been an indispensible part of our daily lives.

I put on a pair of goggles as I walk into a secured lab. In one room a 3-D printer churns out a mock-up of the back cover. In another room a laser printer spits out a sample layout of the Touch Cover keyboard.

Samsung is blurring the line between tablets and laptops just as Apple shrinks the size of its market-leading tablet in a nod to the smartphone.

Sharp wowed crowds at IFA 2012 with its IGZO displays, and the firm has now announced the Aquos Pad SHT 21 as the first tablet to use the technology.

An investigation by Taiwan's government has concluded that two former executives with display maker AU Optronics allegedly stole technology from the company and supplied it to rival Chinese firm TCL.

Microsoft's Surface RT tablet is gorgeous. It's innovative. It's without exaggeration the most exciting new gadget to come along in years. And if you buy one today, you're a fool.

Economics Minister Shih Yen-shiang said Tuesday that the Cabinet has proposed giving heavier penalties for the crime of leaking business secrets in the wake of an alleged leak of a Taiwan-based panel maker's research secrets to Chinese rivals.

Two former execs from Taiwanese flat panel-maker and Apple supplier AU Optronics have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out industrial espionage for their new employer, Chinese electronics firm TCL.

Taiwan's AU Optronics(AUO) is well-positioned to challenge leading display suppliers of tablet computers, given its improved relationship with brand customers, US research firm NPD DisplaySearch said recently in a report.

Reports are claiming that Apple is set to launch its iPad mini on Tuesday 23 October, days before Microsoft's launch of Windows 8 and its Surface tablet.

Kindle Paperwhite does not have audio or Text-to-Speech. This makes the device smaller and lighter than it would otherwise be.

How's this for honesty? Amazon took it upon itself to post a note today on its site listing the limitations of its newest e-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite.

Amazon has confirmed it will not make a profit from sales of its latest Kindle tablet and e-reader devices.

Consolidated revenues for the company are estimated at 52 trillion Korean won while operating profits were at 8.1 trillion won.

LG Australia is set to reveal later today a brand new 84-inch 4K TV that sets a new benchmark for TV viewing in Australia, with insiders tipping a "significantly" cheaper purchase price than the originally tipped US$20,000.

Flexible displays are not a new idea - they have been cited, times and again, in different design concepts. However, so far, we haven't seen a commercially available product which features a flexible display. Futaba may be planning to change this by showing off a watch with a flexible OLED screen.

When 3M started frankensteining its pico projectors into smartphones a few years ago as a proof of concept, it was novel, but really had no practical use in the real world. (Even for the enterprise world and its infinite powerpoint presentations). But seeing a projector built into Smart Devices' SmartQ U7 Android tablet has me full of ideas on how to use it.

The Indian tablet market sales (unit shipments) touch 0.55 million units in second quarter of 2012 recording a quarter-on-quarter increase of 59% and year-on-year increase of 673%, according to a survey conducted by CyberMedia Research.

About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon's business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was looking at selling the tablet at cost or even below cost and then make up the profit through products and services offered to customers.

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are set to go head to head in a unique battle for consumer's cash.

Tablet PC shipments are projected to exceed notebook PC shipments by 2016. According to NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim, the paradigm industry shift has prompted notebook PC manufacturers to adopt a number of key tablet features.

PCMag got the opportunity to preview the Acer Iconia W700-6465, and so far it's an interesting look into the future of computing.

The LCD backlight market experienced a fall in the price of LED chips and with the combined lower than expected demand for LCD televisions, globally, the LCD backlight market reported lower market value sales in 2012.

Sharp, a Japanese television maker cutting jobs and output to stanch losses, fell for a second day in Tokyo trading amid speculation slumping sales of displays will cause bigger-than-expected losses.

The upcoming release of the iPad Mini raises the question of what it will do to Apple's profit margins.

Intel has announced some investment deals, including one in cloud storage outfit Box and another in the Chinese advertising outfit UUCun.

LG Display said it filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against its biggest rival, Samsung Electronics in a South Korea court over the use of advanced OLED displays in smartphones and tablet computers.

HP's upcoming ElitePad 900 tablet seems like a solid option for Windows 8 business users, until you read the fine print.

A federal judge has lifted a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Corp.'s Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer.

Sony said last week it will launch a large-size LCD television with enhanced image quality on November 23, aiming to boost sales of value-added products to rebuild its loss-making TV business.

It's 123.8mm long and its much-hyped Retina screen measures an impressive 1,136 x 640 pixels - achieving an eye-popping 326 pixels per inch - but does the iPhone 5 have the high-end screen it should?

It was a while back that suggested that Samsung could be launching smartphones in 2012 with flexible AMOLED displays.

Half of US adults now have a mobile connection to the Web through a smartphone or tablet, up sizably from a year ago, according to a survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), set to overtake Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) as the biggest PC maker this year, now has its sights on the smartphone and tablet markets, as it takes on Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in China.