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- Microsoft Netbook Definition Explains a Lot
- No wonder Microsoft is looking to the web as a way of delivering Office. The company is using a seriously tiered approach to selling Windows 7 that could restrict what applications, including Office, might be able to run on a netbook. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
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- Dell Inspiron 11Z: The un-Netbook Looks Good for $399
- Photo courtesy of Dell Dell is playing really interesting games with their netbook lineup. First, they discontinued the Dell Mini 9. Then, then, they discontinued the Dell Mini 12 leaving the Mini 10 & 10v. Then, the un-discontinued the Mini 9. Now, they introduce the obvious successor to the Mini...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Microsoft's Xbox Live Sees 2 Million Facebook Users in First Week — What's Next?
- Microsoft put out a press release yesterday touting the success of its Xbox Live console gaming network, and the company included some stats about its new integration with Facebook and other web services. In the week since Facebook became available, more than 2 million of Xbox Live's 20 million "Active...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Time to drop the Netbook label
- Can we all agree on something? There's no longer a difference between a Netbook and a notebook. Thanks to Netbooks' move to more features and larger-size screens, the distinction between the two can now be considered little more than marketing speak.We recently wrote about the fall's coming battle between Netbooks--a...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Freescale Entering Netbook Market with System-on-a-Chip Design
- Freescale Seminconductor is planning to enter the ?netbook? market later this year with a system-on-a-chip design that uses the next-generation ARM Cortex-A8 processor, which should lower the cost and reduce the power consumption of these laptops. At the 2009 CES expo, which starts the week of Jan. 5 in Las...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Microsoft CEO Ballmer Launches Windows 7 In New York
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer headlined the long-awaited launch of Windows 7, Microsoft?s newest operating system and its biggest hope for eliminating the stigma of the ill-received Windows Vista, in a high-profile event in New York City on Oct. 22. Ballmer cited how the mission of computing has expanded past Bill...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst
- Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm. Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Nokia's PC Plans
- Nokia wants to make one thing clear: it's serious about the PC industry. When the Finnish mobile technology giant announced its first netbook, the "Booklet 3G" in late August, skeptics assumed the device was an experiment and would have limited distribution. On Tuesday, Nokia ( NOK - news - people...
- News items 2009-10-13
- AMD, HP Combine to Launch ?Yukon` Platform for Ultraportable Laptops
- Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its much anticipated ?Yukon? platform for lower cost, ultraportable laptops at the 2009 CES and the chip maker has lined up Hewlett-Packard as the first PC vendor to offer a consumer laptop based on the new platform. The AMD Yukon platform, which the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Lenovo Makes Holiday Pitch with IdeaPads, Desktops
- In total, there are three IdeaPad notebooks and three desktops; Lenovo also announced tweaks to the existing Lenovo Ideapad U350 ultraportable and the S10-2 netbook. All of the new "Idea"-class products Lenovo announced use Intel microprocessors; they also feature the so-called "Lenovo Enhanced Experience," which Lenovo claims includes a collaboration...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Vega: Android Leaps from Phone to Tablet
- One of the promises of Google's Android operating system has always been that it need not stay confined to powering cell phones. That's already starting to come to fruition, with an Android netbook on the way from Acer and both the Barnes & Noble Nook ...
- News items 2009-11-13
- 10 things to know about Samsung's Bada platform
- 1. Making smartphones open to all Samsung's announcement of Bada might be confusing to some people, but the firm has a clear message – it wants to make the smartphone accessible to everyone. In a chart shown at the media launch, Samsung pointed to...
- News items 2009-12-10
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