Toshiba's Excite 10 LE Android tablet coming in March for $549

Toshiba of Canada recently announced the launch of the Excite 10 LE Tablet, currently the world’s thinnest 10-inch tablet. Measuring in at just 0.3 inches (7.7mm) thin and weighing just 1.18 pounds (535g), this comes with Android OS 2.3 Honeycomb but Toshiba says it will be able to run the  Ice Cream Sandwich version of Google's Android OS. More details after the break.

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Get your Windows 8 Consumer Preview now, if you dare

Windows 8 is arguably the biggest revamp to Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.1 and brings the Metro touch elements of Windows Phone to the desktop and the tablet form factors. It is strange, it is different and it will shake things up in the OS segment. Aside from the new tiled interface, Microsoft has jettisoned the iconic Start button and restructured a lot of the functionality. This is the future of your desktop, you best be getting used to it.

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview can be downloaded now and is free. Below are the key features as well as the official word from Redmond. See a video and more info on Windows 8 here.

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Acer Launches Iconia Tab A200 Tablet in Canada for $329 with ICS

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Cheaper Android tablet, yay! Ice Cream Sandwich, double yay!

By ditching the rear camera and stramlining the feature set, Acer has been able to adjust the price of its tablet and give some perspective to the industry by offering a reasonably priced yet powerful and updated Android tablet.

Reasonably priced. Powerful. Updated. Android tablet. What a delicious concept!

There's really no point in spending money on overpriced Android Honeycomb tablets with 3.0 or 3.1 operating systems right now, way to change the game Acer! Full press release after the break.

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Motoring: VW releases Golf GTI Cabriolet

This is the most powerful VW Cabriolet ever. Revealed at the Geneva Auto Show, the VW Golf GTI Cabriolet accelerates  from 0 to 100 km/h within 7.3 seconds, its top speed with the roof up is 237 km/h (DSG: 235 km/h). Pricing and availability has not yet been announced but seeing this in North America is unlikely seeing that the EOS and the Beetle Cabriolet are hot sellers.

Based on the year-old, third-generation Golf cabriolet, the GTI  version receives the same turbocharged 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine as the GTI with 211 hp.