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Power boosts beyond battery advances

Power boosts beyond battery advances

News In the face of slow progress in battery technology, PC makers are increasingly working on device components to extend battery life for laptop users.

Friday, September 12 2008 07:58 PM

Tags: Components, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Notebook, phone, performance, energy efficiency, Dell Computer Corp., Components, Sony Corp.


Netbooks changing the PC game

Netbooks changing the PC game

News Boosted by telco bundles, netbooks are "the only PC segment enjoying growth this year" and forcing big change to the industry, says Canalys.

Friday, September 11 2009 06:44 PM

Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Notebooks and tablets, PC Company, Asia-Pacific, Sales, leader, analyst, telecommunications company, computer game, PC


Smartbook won't replace smartphones, maybe netbooks

Smartbook won't replace smartphones, maybe netbooks

News While consumers are unlikely to give up their phones for smartbooks, they may do so for netbooks, says industry analyst.

Thursday, October 29 2009 06:55 PM

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Network infrastructure, Development/design, Qualcomm Inc., Computer, Phone, laptop computer, Smart Phone, mobile, Freescale Semiconductor Inc.


Developers get beta SDK for Atom

News Test software-building kit for the Atom Developer Program is part of chipmaker's push to build a network of app stores.

Friday, December 04 2009 08:06 AM

Tags: Processors, Notebooks and tablets, Software engineering/development, Intel Corp., netbook environment, Software Developer Kit, software, Developer, SDK, Beta


Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download tool

News Software giant restores a tool that allows Windows 7 to be more easily installed on older Netbooks. This time, though, it is under an open source license.

Thursday, December 10 2009 10:22 AM

Tags: Windows 7, Notebooks and tablets, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., software, Windows 7, GPL, Tool, USB, Microsoft Windows 7


Ubuntu to run on ARM-based Netbooks

News Canonical and the chip designer are to collaborate on a version of Ubuntu tailored to ARM's architecture, with a focus on low-cost subnotebooks.

Friday, November 14 2008 12:47 AM

Tags: Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Processors, Open source, ARM, Ubuntu, operating system, processor, Ubuntu Linux, desktop


XP is dead; long live XP

News news analysis Windows XP was supposed to be discontinued on Monday, but a series of concessions by Microsoft have ensured that is no longer the case.

Tuesday, July 01 2008 01:15 AM

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, ASUS, performance


Michael Dell talks Netbooks, services, green IT

News The smallish devices known as Netbooks may be all the rage, but the CEO still needs some convincing.

Thursday, September 25 2008 09:22 AM

Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Services, Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, CIO, Google Android


Intel Atom sales boost global chip market

News Research from IDC has found that Intel's Atom chip, found in Netbooks, accounted for about half the growth in microprocessor sales in Q3.

Wednesday, November 05 2008 09:50 AM

Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, VIA Technologies Inc., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., International Data Corp., Chip, Sales, Server, Intel Atom


Google has its own plan for netbooks

News No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the netbook of today.

Friday, November 20 2009 10:29 AM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux desktop OS, Personal Computers, Google Inc., Operating System, Wi-Fi Hotspot, software, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Hardware


Acer: We'll have first Chrome OS netbook

News Company's chairman says in an interview that Acer has been working since earlier this year on being first to offer Chrome OS on netbooks.

Thursday, December 03 2009 08:02 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Cloud computing, Notebooks and tablets, Open Source, ARM, Google Inc., Dell Mini, Operating System, Acer Inc., Cloud computing


Dell brings Chrome OS to its netbook

News With an experimental project, Dell has adapted Google's browser-based operating system to its Mini 10v netbook.

Tuesday, December 01 2009 07:45 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Cloud computing, Personal Computers, Google Inc., Dell Mini, Computer, Operating System, software, Web Browser, Google Chrome


Microsoft pulls Windows 7 download tool

News Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open source code.

Wednesday, November 11 2009 10:51 AM

Tags: Open source, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., software, GPL, Tool, USB, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux


Intel to pitch in on developing Chrome

News Chipmaker will work with Google on the Chrome OS in the same way it contributes to other Linux distributions, which take in parts of Intel's Moblin code.

Thursday, September 17 2009 09:33 AM

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Corp., Linux Company, Chip Company, Graphics, Novell Inc., Linux, Netbook, Processors


Schmidt: Enterprise is Google's next opportunity

News Next big source of revenue for Google is selling services to big business, CEO Eric Schmidt says. Also, consumer and enterprise customers aren't that far apart.

Thursday, October 22 2009 09:08 AM

Tags: Services, Business applications, Google Inc., Chrome OS, advertisement, CEO, Information Technology, Business applications, Web Browser, Gartner Inc.


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OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 4: Using OpenAmplify via SOAP

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Justin James walks you through the process of using the SOAP interface to OpenAmplify from Visual Studio 2008.


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When technology costs more than human

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Movie director James Cameron waited 15 years for technology to catch up before it was sufficiently advanced for him to create the much-anticipated upcoming film, Avatar.

To be released in..... by Eileen Yu

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  2. arm
  3. asus
  4. battery
  5. battery exhaustion
  6. battery technology
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  9. cio
  10. components
  11. dell computer corp.
  12. desktop
  13. google android
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