"I recently visited a local Best Buy, and I played around with several of the current generation of tablets.

Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Canonical after the upcoming 12.04 release.

It's not hard to get tangled in technical jargon when buying a new PC, especially if it's your first.

"it is good to see Linux entering the tablet space ... [but] the Spark is the wrong device to start with," said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.

Qooq, the tablet device designed exclusively for the kitchen, is coming to the UK in the second half of the year.