Microsoft loves netbooks, the ultra-small, ultra-cheap laptops that accounted for about one in every 10 notebooks sold in the last eight months, but only up to a point, a retail analyst says.
“They love [a] netbook, as long as it’s a low-powered companion, accessory PC,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD Group, a market research [...]

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Apple may have turned its nose up at the netbook market, but that doesn’t mean it’s ignoring the void between its $400 iPod touch (32GB) and $1,000 MacBook. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes Cupertino will launch a touchscreen tablet, priced in the $500 to $700 range, in the first half of 2010.
 
Rumors of an [...]

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Acer is already working on several different devices using Google’s Android operating system and software, and plans to launch a smartphone using the software later this year.
“The entire industry is looking at Android,” said Acer president and CEO Gianfranco Lanci at the company’s first-quarter investor’s conference in Taipei on Wednesday.
“We are testing Android on a [...]

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In an effort to counter the growing dominance of Microsoft’s Windows OS in netbooks, Intel on Tuesday announced a beta version of a Linux OS it has developed for low-cost laptops and mobile devices.
The chip company on Tuesday announced a beta of Moblin 2.0, a stripped-down distribution of Linux optimized for smaller screens on netbooks [...]

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Acer has announced two new Acer Aspire One netbooks featuring high-definition screens, full-sized keyboards, multi-gesture touchpads and 3G connectivity. The
new models, named AO751h and AOD250, are thinner than their predecessors with a one-inch thick body, both weigh less than three pounds and are available in
four different colors: Diamond Black, Ruby Red, Sapphire Blue and Seashell [...]

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New sales figures show that shipments of Atom chips, which power netbooks, slumped 33% last quarter, leading some to say the heyday of netbooks is over. But pronouncements about the death of the netbook are premature. Here’s why.
IDC reports that Atom shipments slumped 33% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the final quarter [...]

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The federal government last week reported a 6.1% contraction in the U.S. economy during this year’s first quarter — a grim headline in the making. But economists and IT industry analysts saw some hopeful signs in the latest numbers, as did Wall Street, where stock prices staged a midday rally.
The U.S. Department of Commerce, in [...]

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New sales figures show that shipments of Atom chips, which power netbooks, slumped 33% last quarter, leading some to say the heyday of netbooks is over. But pronouncements about the death of the netbook are premature. Here’s why.
IDC reports that Atom shipments slumped 33% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the final quarter [...]

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If you’re planning an exhibition to conquer Mount Everest, you need to make sure you have all have of the necessary supplies. If you’re list of supplies is anything like the most recent group to take on the Everest challenge, you should pack your MacBook Pro and a few iPods, too.
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A prototype device due to be shown in Tokyo Wednesday may give laptop computers a better shot at performing heavy-duty video processing.
Space and heat considerations often limit the amount of computing power that can be packed into laptops. But Taiwan’s Leadtek plans to unveil a prototype external video processor that brings the power of Toshiba’s [...]

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