European and American Tablet User Demographics is our 5th infographic in a series of monthly visual presentations of tablet usage data by Tablet2Cases.com.

This infographic profiles tablet users by their origin – Europe or USA. Data includes smartphone loyalty for iPad users, average age, mean household income and gender division.

The Great Tablet Society and Its Rituals Revealed is our 4th infographic in a series of monthly visual presentations of tablet usage data by Tablet2Cases.com.

This infographic was prepared for a contest made by PEJ and The Economist, and hosted by Visual.ly. We’ve picked Victorian eye candy visuals to highlight the most interesting details from a recent report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism about tablet news consumption habits, most common ways of reading news, and of course the latest data on the tablet market segmentation. Hope you like this mini-project. Comments are all welcome below the post.

In an extensive survey of some 1,155 Americans taken last week by pollsters Poll Position, people’s perception of the tablet PC’s future was gleaned with some surprising results shown. Some findings revealed in the survey included the following.

Lenovo has introduced a new model into the tablet market with its IdeaPad Yoga, part ultrabook, part tablet. Essentially, it is an ultrabook with a touchscreen that can be turned into a tablet just by flipping the display.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the biggest trade shows out there, acting as a central point for the growing global consumer electronics industry. Here, firms come to show off their new products and latest innovations.

As schools worldwide seek to deal with an invasion of tablet PCs in the classroom, a Thailand government program has apparently decided that “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em”: A pilot program distributed some 500 free tablet PCs to first- and fourth-graders in five urban schools in the country, and plans are afoot to supply 470,000 first-graders with the devices this year.

With more and more tablets entering the already crowded market place, tech giants are reducing prices in order to draw attention to their products.

Consultancy/market research firm NPD DisplaySearch has released its Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report, with all numbers and trending indicating the massive wave of popularity the devices are enjoying worldwide.

From live interviews on the street, editing in the newsroom and sharing pieces, tablets have entered the journalism in sometimes predictable and other times unforeseeable ways. But are they really revolutionary? This week’s column takes a peek into how tablets are making a name for themselves in the industry built on paperboys.

For tablet PCs, the previous year was marked by one of unparalleled success unseen by an electronic device since perhaps the introduction of the CD player. But has the popularity of tablets essentially made the laptop PC a dinosaur altogether?