In March of 2010,Dell announcedthat it was working in partnership with Microsoft’s Azure team to build ‘Dell-powered Windows Azure platform appliance[s].’ In that statement, Dell elaborated on how close it was with Microsoft:“Dell and Microsoft will collaborate on the Windows Azure platform, with Dell and Microsoft offering services, and Microsoft continuing to invest in Dell hardware for Windows Azure infrastructure.”They were, for all intents,best friends. Even more, Dell was a given a very early invite to Azure, one of the first, in fact....

Dell has officially unveiled its newest tablet device, theDell Streak 7, a 7-inch inch Android powered tablet that is the company’s first 4G tablet that will run on T-Mobile’s 4G (HSPA+) networks. The announcement makes the rumourswe reported onofficial, succeeding Dell’s 5-inch Streak device. Launching in the USA in “the coming weeks”, the Streak 7 is powered by Nvidia’s dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, running Android 2.2 (Froyo), shipping with a toughened WVGA Gorilla Glass screen, Bluetooth 2....

Here’s some nerd trivia for you: what laptop has a haptic trackpad, a touch-sensitive strip above the keyboard, and no headphone jack? No, Apple isn’t bringing back the Touchbar. Instead, Dell seems to have taken a page out of Cupertino’s book and updated its flagship 13-inch laptop with design elements that look cool but offer questionable practicality. Perhaps most notably, the function row was removed in favor of a touch-sensitive strip which can toggle between shortcuts and regular function ‘buttons....

A leaked Dell roadmap found its way intoAndroidCentral’s inbox, detailing the company’s plans to release up to four new Android devices within the next twelve months. The devices listed on the roadmap go by their codenames at the moment but what we do know is that each tablet is said to launch with Honeycomb, although that could be set to change as Google remodels and updates its tablet-friendly operating system....

If you’ve been chomping at the bit to get your hands onto Dell’s Venue Pro, your wait is almost over. Starting March 1st, the 4.1-inch WP7 device will be available in the UK. The handset has seen more than its share of delays, bothin the USandin the UK. The last news that we had placed a shipping date of “mid-February”, due to an MMS bug. However, according to news that we’ve gotten from Dell today, UK buyers will be able to order the handset starting tomorrow....