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Cheat Sheet Netbooks… fishermen's favourite toy? Windows 7 Starter Edition will be - according to Microsoft - able to run on netbooks without sucking them dry. Netbooks defined Twitter-style - in... [08 May 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo With a bewildering array of netbooks on sale, September saw silicon.com produce the definitive guide to the best machines around. To discover which netbooks should be in your stocking this Christmas,... [02 Oct 2009]
Netbooks a nail in Microsoft's coffin?
Comment While for Ballmer and co the movement toward netbooks might have proven to be an unfortunate trend, it is neither wholly unexpected nor is it necessarily undesirable. Before assuming, however, that Microsoft is just the... [29 Jan 2009]
Netbooks: "cramped keyboards, terrible software and junky hardware"
News The company's second-quarter earnings results shattered Wall Street expectations, despite a relatively weak quarter for the Mac, the rise of low-cost netbooks, and the strong performance of iPhone rivals such as RIM's... [23 Apr 2009]
CIO Jury: Businesses need netbooks
News Netbooks have received a qualified thumbs up by IT leaders in the latest CIO Jury. When the jury of UK IT chiefs was asked whether netbooks were ready for business use, the answer was yes - by seven... [10 Mar 2009]
Oracle gunning to boost Java in netbooks
News You'll see us get very aggressive with Java, and developing Java apps for things like telephones and netbooks," he told programmers attending a Java users' conference in San Francisco. He called on the group of... [03 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News These dinky notebooks are certainly a popular topic with silicon readers who got clicking in droves on our netbooks Cheat Sheet to learn the what, why and how of this handbag-sized gadget. Broadband Britain was back on... [01 Jun 2009]
Netbooks helping to unwire the enterprise
News The analyst also reckons netbooks will also gain ground in the enterprise, as they offer an inexpensive way of boosting the effectiveness of employees in the field. The unwired enterprise is on the march, according to a... [06 May 2009]
Sub-$200 netbooks on the cards from Freescale
News According to Freescale, this combination makes it possible for manufacturers to build netbooks with retail prices under $200 and battery lives of eight hours. Monday's announcement brought to fruition a prediction made... [06 Jan 2009]
'Android-powered netbooks coming this year'
News Android-powered netbooks will emerge this year, analysts are predicting. The laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, according to Laurent Lachal, open source research director at Ovum, with a growing variety of... [18 Mar 2009]
How smartphones, netbooks will change the future of money
News Companies have been developing mobile banking and e-payments options for a number of years, but the future is looking more complicated as higher bandwidth and more sophisticated devices such as netbooks and smartphones... [30 Mar 2009]
Android to show up on Acer netbooks this year
News Netbooks are designed to be compact in size and easy to connect to the internet wherever you go," said Jim Wong, Acer's president of IT products, in a statement. The Android operating system offers incredibly fast... [02 Jun 2009]
Business taking a shine to netbooks?
News In the whole of 2008, almost seven million netbooks shipped in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), IDC said, as the arrival of the first affordable models generated strong interest from buyers. [19 Feb 2009]
Ubuntu gets new netbooks boost with chip deal
News ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices such as mobile phones, but it emerged in October that ARM's technology will soon be used in netbooks, the new breed of small, low-cost notebook PCs. [17 Nov 2008]
HP considers Android for netbooks
News Hewlett-Packard is considering using Google's Android operating system on its low-cost Netbooks, an executive at the company told The Wall Street Journal. But now experts are predicting that the open-source operating... [01 Apr 2009]
