What did you see there? Among the corporate speak and incredibly hand-wavy and ill-defined sense of what kind of actual digital coding system a tablet-edition magazine might adopt, there was at ...

The 43-year-old attorney uses his tablet computer to highlight legal briefs, take notes for court cases or flip though a digital version of the California probate code.

Not your typical tablet One thing to keep in mind with the ModBook is that, unlike a number of PC tablets, it cannot really be used like a typical laptop, ever.

Hoping to write a new chapter in the saga of pen-based computing, the company unveils Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. PC makers including HP and Toshiba join in the festivities.

Next year tablet computer hype will become a reality as vendors actually deliver devices.

The still hypothetical device will be a 10-or-so-inch tablet PC with a full Mac OS X operating system; or it will merely be a larger-screen version of the current iPod Touch.