Is Google inclined to take on Apples iPad with a new tablet?

If it is, it wouldnt be the first potential challenger. Dell NASDAQ DELL just recently shipped its Streak pocket memorandum-book and other companies have products in the works including Cisco NASDAQ CSCO with its Android-based Cius and HP NYSE HPQ, which is developing the pair a consumer and enterprise-oriented device.

Datamation reports on the latest slab-related rumor involving Google, which has already committed its forthcoming Chrome OS to debut without interrupti~ a new generation of netbooks that would rely primarily on Web services and applications moderately than applications stored on the device.

When Google first briefed the media after all the rest November on its plans to help spawn a new generation of Chrome OS-powered netbooks, the crew said the first set of devices would be released this go astray.

Despite some analysts skepticism that the effort is put track, Google NASDAQ GOOG, as recently as last week, said it expects Chrome OS netbooks to subsist available later this year.

But now a report has surfaced that the primitive Chrome OS hardware to hit the market will be a small table instead of a netbook.

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First Chrome OS Tablet Set since Black Friday Debut?