Thanks to all who attended our ALA TechSource workshop last week and today!  The follow up blog post—complete with a major list of resources—is now available.  Check it out!  Our slides, apps document, and references are all there, as well.  

The number of college students who say they own tablets has more than tripled since a survey taken last year, according to new poll results released today. 

Amazon managed to ship 4.7 million Kindle Fire tablets by the end of 2011, according to a new report from research firm IDC. While that allowed the online retailer to seize an estimated 16.8 percent of the worldwide tablet market, it wasn’t enough to seriously challenge Apple’s iPad, whose share stands at 54.7 percent.

Corporations planning tablet purchases next quarter overwhelmingly voted for Apple’s iPad, a research firm said Tuesday.

Pitting the souped-up Apple iPad against the budget-focused Amazon Kindle Fire might seem like an unfair fight, but for many, a new tablet will come down to a choice between the two.

The Austin event has become a springboard to startup success, particularly for mobile apps. Here are some app-related SXSW 2012 stories we’re particularly excited about.

The new iPad doesn’t hit shelves until March 16 but Apple says it’s already seeing high demand for its tablet computer. Hayley Tsukayama reports:

More and more businesses are looking to buy tablets for their employees, and most are considering Apple’s new iPad, according to a newsurvey from ChangeWave Research…

With a bank of 40,000 educational apps that have been cataloged, reviewed, and approved, a Tennessee initiative hopes to make it easier for educators to use apps in the classroom and beyond.

Now that the new iPad is here and official, it’s much easier to compare its specifications against those of the host of competitors that have flooded the tablet field since the introduction of the iPad 2….