Microsoft Corp.'s operating system for tablet PCs can take your system far, but only so far because few applications have been optimized for tablet PCs. To get a sense of this relatively new market, ...

SAN FRANCISCO--For more than two decades, the dream of controlling a computer with a pen has seduced and, more often than not, frustrated some of the biggest luminaries in the technology pantheon, ...

For many years just about every portable device came with a stylus. Whether it was the revolutionary Eo Slate with its PenPoint OS, the doomed Apple Newton, the very successful PalmPilot, or ...