Engadget managed to do a hands-on with the new Nvidia Tegra 2-powered Android tablet today, and it looks very nice, so far.

The powerful Tegra 2 set has dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processors, a chip that is a full generation ahead of the iPad's A4 chip.

Additionally, the tablet has two USB ports (the iPad has none), 1GB of RAM (iPad has 256MB) and a front-facing camera for video conferencing.

The WSVGA screen is 8.9-inches.

There is still no word on when the tablet will be available, or at what price, but for now, it is fun to look at.

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In April, giant computer manufacturer HP agreed to purchase the struggling smartphone maker Palm for $1.2 billion in cash, including assuming Palm's debt.

Along with the purchase, HP was given full rights to Palm's patents and their WebOS operating system, which many argue is the best smartphone operating system available.

This week, following a strong quarterly earnings report, HP CEO Mark Hurd said the company plans to use WebOS in a variety of products, including tablets and Web-enabled printers.

In response to the deal, Hurd also added (via EW): "[The proposed deal] isn't precisely a smartphone play, as I've seen some people write. It is, for us, strategically broader. We expect to leverage WebOS into a variety of form factors, including 'slates' and Web-connected printers."

"Slates" relates to the former working name for their highly-anticipated tablet, which was recently scrapped.

The first WebOS HP product is expected to be the "Hurricane" tablet, which should be somewhat like the "Slate" would have been, except running a streamlined WebOS variant.

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Yahoo has announced this week that it will acquire the user-generated publishing company Associated Content in an effort to add more pages and in turn attract more advertising revenue.

AC pays all of its 380,000 contributors nominal fees to write niche-related articles on tons of different topics ranging from finance, to health, to travel and beyond. While the financial details of the deal were not revealed, Yahoo will receive a gigantic amount of content and pages that were created for very little money.

"We feel that a contributor-driven model is absolutely part of the future of media," adds Matthew Idema, a VP for Yahoo (via Reuters).

The more content Yahoo has available, the more attractive their pages are to advertisers, many of which have been conservative with their expenditures since 2007.

Adds news industry analyst Ken Doctor of the deal: "It makes them a publisher, essentially. Now they have a lot more content they can serve advertising against."

Rival portal AOL was widely expected to purchase AC, but it appears Yahoo stepped in first.

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According to the latest figures from Gartner, Symbian (by Nokia) remains the most popular smartphone operating system worldwide, although it is growing at a much slower pace than its rivals.

Nokia stood on top the leader board for the latest quarter with 24.1 million units sold. RIM, which creates the BlackBerry devices was in second at 10.6 million units sold. Apple, which only has one smartphone, the iPhone, remained in third with 8.3 million units sold. Android, the open-source OS created by Google, managed to surpass Microsoft's Windows Mobile to take fourth, with 5.2 million units sold.

From the group, Android, (by a long shot), saw the strongest growth, 707 percent year-on-year. Apple continued to see strong growth as well, with 112 percent YoY.

Gartner predicts that Android will surpass Apple in the next few quarters, as many more manufacturers are creating Android devices now, or have at least promised devices for the future. Android phones are already outselling the iPhone in the United States.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says 65,000 smartphones running the Android operating system are shipped everyday now, showing continued strong growth for the OS which launched in late 2008.

The news also displays in glaring fashion the fall of Windows Mobile, which used to control a significant portion of the market but has now fallen of the face of the Earth. Microsoft still charges handset makers a license fee for the operating system.

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Tinhte, a site based in Vietnam has posted pics today of a leaked iPod Touch with a camera.

The device has the DVT-1 stamp, meaning it is an early design of a future final product.

Apple is likely to officially launch the new device on June 7th, at their annual conference.

The serial number reveals a "late 2009 third generation Touch," and from the pics and video it all seems pretty legitimate.

The label indicates a 64GB model, and the camera seems to be a 2MP sensor from Omnivision.

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