Add Toshiba to the list of challengers hoping to dethrone the iPad. Notebook Italia has posted pictures and details about an upcoming, Android-powered slate Toshiba reportedly unveiled at a press conference in Australia.

The news comes to us from Download Squad, which bases its story on an anonymous source.It says that a Google branded, Chrome OS toting slate device could be launched as soon as Black Friday, that is Nov 26 2010. Download Squad says HTC will manufacture the device, and Google will offer it in collaboration with [...]

The iPads fight with the competition starts here, Dell has finally decided to launch the Dell streak in the US from the 13th of august. Many believe that this first foray into the world of smartphones by Dell marks the first real challenge to the success of the iPad so far in the US. The [...]

When HP bought Palm and revealed plans for webOS-powered slate devices this spring, word on the web was that HP had quietly euthanized its Windows 7 slate. Evidence now points to the contrary. Kind of. Engadget has been told by HP itself that the Windows-powered slate is “still very much in the works.” Confirmation came [...]

Following the launch of a host of phones this summer, not least the iPhone 4 and motorolla droid x,Dell’s Streak device can’t be much further off now. A product page has apeared on Dell’s website, which quotes a “late July” purchase availability date. Users can “sign up for pre-sale,” too—I guess that counts as a [...]

Google’s Android OS has finally been used in a tablet environment, and by a most unusual source, and in a rather unique application. Today Cisco announced the Cius tablet as an “ultra-portable, mobile collaboration business tablet that offers access to essential business applications and technologies.”