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Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere

Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android

Software25 May 2023 | 7

Apple finally pro giving Pro iPads these Pro apps

Final Cut, Logic to land on fondleslabs – in subscription form

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 9

IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales

Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29

Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab

Updates for multiple devices including PinePhone Pro and keyboard incoming

Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 15

Tablet, Chromebook shipments come crashing down

Device sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs

Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 11

Juno offering Linux-powered tablet PC for pre-order

The company already sells penguin-infested laptops and desktops, but an x86 Linux fondleslab is new

Personal Tech17 Oct 2022 | 19

EU proposes regulations for tablet battery life, spare parts

Rules for devices including phones aimed at reducing environmental impact of scroll addiction

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 64

Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC

Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon

Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 14

IT spending set to ride out wave of global economic uncertainty

Market watchers see device spending downturn as blip in robust bigger picture

On-Prem14 Jul 2022 |

Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond?

Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 66

Tablet PC sales decline as consumers consider inflation

Panic buying is over, but the market's still well above pre-pandemic norms

Personal Tech05 May 2022 | 2

Microsoft gives tablets some love in latest Windows 11 build

Not quite touch-first, but a bit more fondle-friendly

OSes25 Feb 2022 | 15

Samsung reveals new smartphones, tablets... and yes. The S22 Ultra is undeniably good

Shiny new kit a bit more environmentally conscious

Personal Tech09 Feb 2022 | 26

Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?

Review Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite sees Reg hack's fondleslab get a rest

Personal Tech13 Dec 2021 | 94

PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing

Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid

Personal Tech09 Dec 2021 | 9

Open hardware smartphone PinePhone Pro starts to ship – to developers only, for now

New e-ink tablet, too. Open mobiles, tablets and laptops are coming... slowly

Personal Tech08 Dec 2021 | 11

Lenovo pops up tips on its tablets. And by tips, Lenovo means: Unacceptable ads

Amid customer fury, PC maker says it has 'no plans to add any further push notifications' to its stealth adware

Personal Tech03 Sep 2021 | 122

Panasonic's Toughbook G2 comes Windows 11-ready even as TPM 2.0 supplies dwindle

Rugged fondleslab ideal for field work starts at £2,218 with lots to configure

Personal Tech29 Jun 2021 | 6

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

Review Thunk: The reassuring sound of a rugged, comfy biz computer

Personal Tech03 Feb 2021 | 119

The Fat iPhone, 11 years on: The iPad's over a decade old and we're still not sure what it's for

World+dog continues to swallow this tablet, though

Personal Tech29 Jan 2021 | 81

TCL notices lockdown has made tablet market a thing again, tosses out pair of cheapish 'droid fondleslabs

TABMAX wants to be for productivity AND family, TABMID is smaller

Personal Tech04 Sep 2020 | 7

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home

Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it?

Personal Tech04 Aug 2020 | 8

How many? 28 million fewer PCs and tablets to find a home in 2020

Factory closures, surge in remote working and weakened economy all fed into forecasting formula

Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 15

Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

Mobile phone for sale. One careless owner

Personal Tech20 Jan 2020 | 23

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

Remanufactured kit never as reliable, complainants claim

Personal Tech18 Sep 2019 | 33

Samsung 'reveals' what looks like a tablet that folds into a phone, but otherwise we're quite literally left in the dark

*squints* Well, it's flexible. It's a, er, thing. It's...

Personal Tech08 Nov 2018 | 76

Desktop PC shipments dip below 100m/year

And there's worse to come between now and 2022 for all client devices bar typoslabs

Personal Tech01 Mar 2018 | 26

2017 tablet market trended towards torpor

Amazon and Huawei did okay, but overall shipments dipped between six and twelve per cent

Personal Tech06 Feb 2018 | 33

VTech fondleslabs for kids 'still vulnerable' despite sanctions

Researchers claim flaws remain more than two years later

Security18 Jan 2018 | 12

Microsoft's 'Surface Phone' is the ghost of Courier laughing mockingly at fanbois

New hinge design looks back not forward

Personal Tech15 Dec 2017 | 55

Off-brand tablets look done, but big players are growing

And heeeere comes Amazon with its crazy low prices

Personal Tech06 Nov 2017 | 36

BYOD might be a hipster honeypot but it's rarely worth the extra hassle

Security, compatibility, control... we enter another world of pain

On-Prem02 Oct 2017 | 112

It's just 'Pro' now, guys: Microsoft gives Surface a subtle resurfacing

Boutique fondleslab gains SIM slot... but not until later this year

Personal Tech23 May 2017 | 61

Opposable thumbs make tablets more useful says Microsoft Research

You're already gripping your fondleslab, so why not give the thumb something useful to do?

Personal Tech09 May 2017 | 27

It's been two and a half years of decline – tablets aren't coming back

Fondleslab sales plummet goes from 'bad' to 'IBM'

Personal Tech05 May 2017 | 74

Device spend will rise 2% to $600bn in 2017, say techno-seers

Chinese vendors' upgrades driving costs

Personal Tech06 Apr 2017 | 7

'Clearance sale' shows Apple's iPad is over. It's done

Comment Cheaper or more sophisticated? Cupertino does neither

Personal Tech23 Mar 2017 | 203

TWO BILLION PCs to sell in next five years

Which sounds great! Shame annual sales will be less in 2021 than they were in 2016

Personal Tech28 Feb 2017 | 45

Tablets become feebleslabs as sales spiral down

Even detachables like the Surface are making buyers snooze

Personal Tech03 Feb 2017 | 58

Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher

Can we just go ahead and call it 'the Samsung device' now?

Science17 Jan 2017 | 28

Cheap, lousy tablets are killing the whole market says IDC

Amazon and Huawei sales up, everyone else is drooping

Personal Tech01 Nov 2016 | 53

NFL is No Fondleslab League: Top coach says he'd rather use pen and paper than Surface tab

Belichick says he's done with the Microsoft slab

Personal Tech18 Oct 2016 | 26

Microsoft releases firmware fix for faulty Surface Pro 3 batteries

'Portable' device can now be untethered from wall

Personal Tech30 Aug 2016 | 24

Nokia taps former Rovio man Rantala to market relaunch

Maker of phones nobody has bought in years hires ex-boss of game nobody has played in years

On-Prem15 Aug 2016 | 27

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

Time to re-discover the lost art of selling PCs

Software08 Aug 2016 | 164

Softbank promises stronger ARM: Greater overseas reach and double the UK jobs

And plenty of investment, natch

Channel18 Jul 2016 | 96

Booming sales of flippy detachables offers hope to glum PC market

Businesses want in too

Channel24 May 2016 | 17

Android's security patch quagmire probed by US watchdogs

Feds finally wake up to sorry state of firmware fixes

Security09 May 2016 | 48

iPad bricked by iOS 9.3? Don't worry, we'll get through this together

Updated Reg readers share their fondleslab update struggles and tips

Personal Tech24 Mar 2016 | 29

Shock: Russian court says Russian court is right in slapping down Google monopoly

Arbiter reaffirms antitrust finding in Yandex complaint

Legal14 Mar 2016 | 13

Don't fear PC-pocalypse, Chromebooks, two-in-ones 'will save us'

Notebooks will be fine if everyone just changes their definition of 'notebook'

Personal Tech09 Mar 2016 | 40

How one of the poorest districts in the US pipes Wi-Fi to families – using school buses

Coachella Valley uses its imagination for IT setup

Networks10 Feb 2016 | 45

Canonical and Spain's BQ team to put Ubuntu on a tablet

Tablet, schmablet, this is a converged experience. Or something

Personal Tech07 Feb 2016 | 21

We're all really excited about new smartphones, laptops, tablets – said no one ever

Consumer apathy hurls companies in direction of IoT

Channel05 Jan 2016 | 59

VTech's Android tablet for kids 'hopelessly insecure'

Dump data partition, removable memory card, developer mode – all possible

Security04 Dec 2015 | 28

Research: Microsoft the fastest growing maker of tablet OSs ... by 2019

Nine years late is better than nothing

Channel27 Nov 2015 | 81