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Acer Aspire One D150
Reviews The new 10in. Aspire One D150 will further cement Acer's lead in the netbook market, largely on account of its competitive price.
Tags: Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Mobile Broadband, Acer Inc., TFT, Mouse, Touchpad, D150, Aspire
Apps to flourish on mobile, games
News Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, Mobile platforms, Nokia Corp., Ovum, Phone, Operating System, App, mobile, Business applications
Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Reviews Dell's entry into the Netbook market means it's time to take these low-cost, low-power PCs seriously. The Inspiron Mini 9 is an excellent example of the form, if not radically different from the competition.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Mobile Broadband, Mobile, Inspiron Mini 9, Intel Atom, ASUS, RAM, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp.
Acer launches first business netbook
News The PC manufacturer has tailored its Aspire One netbook for the corporate crowd, adding greater storage and XP Professional.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Business, 3G (Third Generation), Microsoft Windows, Battery, Acer Inc., IEEE 802.11n, Aspire, 3G, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Google offers JavaScript programming tools
News In a new step to make the Web a more powerful foundation for programs, Google is releasing Closure Tools that it says produce faster, better code.
Tags: Open source, Cloud computing, Google Inc., compiler, software, Cloud computing, Web Browser, Internet Search Advertising, Tool, Open source
Not all employees are created equal
Blogs "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I read that famous line in George Orwell's Anim...
Eee PC maker Asus goes gadget
News Taiwanese company finds itself smack in the middle of a transition from components maker to serious contender in PCs and accessories. Could Asus could be an Acer in the making?
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Cellular phones, Music devices, Smart phones, Acer Inc., Motherboard, Video, Touch Screen, ASUS
First Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate unveiled
News The Ubuntu project has published a final testing version for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution.
Tags: Open source, Acer Inc., Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04, Server, release candidate, Amazon.com Inc., ASUS, software, Dell Computer Corp.
Acer to sell Android netbooks, phones this year
News After the launch of a model running on Android later this year, the majority of Acer's netbooks will offer the open source OS as an alternative to Windows.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Notebooks and tablets, Acer Inc., Smart Phone, Android, operating system, phone, subnotebook, Microsoft Windows
Flash to be optimized for Intel, Nvidia netbooks
News Adobe has announced collaborations with Broadcom and Nvidia that will see high-definition Flash video technology tweaked for portable Web-surfing devices.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Graphics, Mobile processors, Media players, Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Broadcom Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Video
Acer takes on HP in home servers
News Acer becomes one of only two major PC companies to offer Windows Home Server in the United States. Taiwanese maker matches rival Hewlett-Packard on price and specs.
Tags: Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Acer Inc., Sales, computer, Server, hard drive, Microsoft Windows
Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades
News Amazon proclaims that the 2008 festive shopping was its “best ever,” even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades.
Tags: E-commerce, Forecasting, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Electronics, Sales, food sale, 1080p, Forecasting, Intel Atom
Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL
Asus Eee PC 1000
Reviews The Eee PC 1000 is a fabulous machine. It precariously straddles the line between netbook and ultraportable, but it's well equipped, well designed and great for anyone requiring a highly portable notebook.
Tags: Battery, Storage, Touchpad, Eee PC 1000, ASUS, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows XP, USB port, Microsoft Windows, multi-touch
