Though features like number of apps, weight, battery life and Flash compatibility tend to attract the most attention in tablet assessments, a new study says typing is actually the most common ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Is Microsoft’s Surface a tablet or a laptop? I’m not quite sure, but it is a lot easier to type on than an iPad. The software company unveiled updates to its Surface tablet ...

Simple premise: Measure your typing speed on a keyboard and your tablet. Part of the contention is that tablet text entry is much slower than keyboard and that a tablet with a keyboard cover would be ...

Using touch-screen keyboards on tablet computers for long periods of time could lead to chronic shoulder problems, suggests a study in the November issue of Applied Ergonomics that compared the ...

Touch typing on the flat surface of a smart device can be somewhat challenging. Zack Dennis came to the rescue in 2012 with a chorded keyboard concept called ASETNIOP. Now that keying system has ...

Android tablets devote the majority of their surface space to a large touch-screen display, leaving no room for a hardware keyboard. Starting with Android 2.1, Google introduced a new text-input ...

Looking to make typing on tablet computers easier (and add another term to the mobile computing lexicon), French company AlphaUI is developing a “back-typing” concept that adds an external physical ...

I'm not quite sure, but it is a lot easier to type on than an iPad. The software company unveiled updates to its Surface tablet computers Monday at an event in New York, where I had a short amount of ...

A new Surface 2 tablet computer and docking station are introduced, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 in New York. The optional docking station allows the Pro 2 to be used like a laptop. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ...