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Servers Get Cheaper, Courtesy of Netbook Hardware

Chris Dannen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:08:32 -0400

Some cost-conscious server companies are beginning to use netbook hardware inside their machines to cut costs, according to The New York Times.

Apple Won't Make Netbooks, but Its Manufacturer Will

Kit Eaton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:29:30 -0400

Despite the success of the netbook genre of mini-PCs, Apple has repeatedly stated it won't enter the market. But that's apparently not stopping Foxconn, one of Apple's most trusted manufacturers from making some of its own.

Intel Nokia Partner to Tackle Post-Netbook, Post-iPhone Mobile Computers

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:22 -0400

Intel and Nokia have just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so that they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used to iPhones and netbooks.

Intel and Nokia Kiss, Plan to Make Super-Smartphone Babies

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:22 -0400

Intel and Nokia just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used to iPhones and netbooks.

Intel Buys Wind River, Wants More Intel Inside Your Mobile Devices

Kit Eaton — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:39:15 -0400

Intel, obviously not hurting too much from a recent $1.5 billion anti-trust fine, has just spent $884 million purchasing Wind River, which makes embedded systems software. Why would it do that? Because Intel wants it's "Intel Inside" stickers on more phones and mobile Internet devices, that's why.

Segmenting Inside

Guy Smith — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:39:52 -0400

Once in a great while you see a company doing what would be sane in
other markets, but might be a Herculean improbability in their own.

Yes, this has to do with the Linux market.

Can Intel's New Atom Chips Liven Up Netbooks?

Kit Eaton — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:32:47 -0400

We may have proclaimed the netbook a phenomenon that was over and done, but Intel has just revealed its next-gen Pine Trail chips, and it looks like they might inject some new interest into the mini portable computers.

The Netbook Just Grew Up: Sharp's Mebius Has an LCD Trackpad

Kit Eaton — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:36:09 -0400

Looks like the netbook is no longer the immature, dim-witted cousin of the grown-up laptop: Sharp's new Mebius netbook is so shiny and clever it outclasses many "superior" machines. It's got a multi-touch LCD where its tiny, inefficient "netbook class" trackpad should be.

Acer's AspireRevo Shows Why a Nettop May Be Your Next PC

Kit Eaton — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:34:21 -0400

The AspireRevo PC is a nettop, as far as the class of computer can be defined. Similar to netbooks, nettops are generally characterized as ultra-small PCs, powered by Intel Atom CPU chips, and with capabilities that are typically somewhere below the average big-box desktop PC.

Intel Ensures Better Next-Gen Netbooks With New Atom Chips

Kit Eaton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:12:28 -0400

Intel's just unveiled two new chips in its ground-breaking Atom range of CPUs, one year to the day the first chip was launched. A cause for celebration for one main reason: Without the Atom we probably would not have netbooks. And Intel's just made sure the class of diminutive PCs has a bright future.

iFive: GM on the Fritz, 'Monsters vs. Aliens,' Intel's Cool (Really!), and G20 Protests in Today's Innovation News

David Lidsky — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:04:53 -0400

While you enjoyed your weekend, innovation wore her 3-D glasses while having a little work done on her arms. Here's today's news:

Intel's Phone-Media Hub Mash-Up is a Curiously Dated Idea

Kit Eaton — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:58:08 -0500

Intel doesn't think that the home phone is dead--despite some pretty compelling evidence that more and more people are using cellphones as their main telecommunications systems. And it wants to combine a home phone with another idea that hasn't quite caught on yet--the home media hub.

The Six Best Things on the Web this Week

Chris Dannen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:14:29 -0500

Malcolm Gladwell Is Wrong

The Six Tech Marvels We Had Better See In 2009

Chris Dannen — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:05:49 -0500

As 2008 comes to a close, here are the six tech marvels that are ready to explode into ubiquity. And after a year of almost-breakthroughs -- fast-but-spotty 3G; cheap-but-slow netbooks -- we deserve them. After all, this is the future, isn't it?

Free National Wi-Fi

How To Love A Netbook

Chris Dannen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:07:52 -0500

It's the holidays, and that means offering peace and clemency to your nemeses. Or, in my case, coming to tolerate -- even appreciate -- a netbook.

I didn't think it was possible at first; every UMPC I've used has felt cramped, slow, dim, and barely Internet-capable. I spent many a plane flight with a netbook in the overhead compartment, tapping away memos and emails on an iPhone. Then I started using Asus's 10-inch Eee PC.

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

Adam L. Penenberg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:18 -0400

Designing a microprocessor like the Atom, Intel's smallest chip ever, is like planning a city so tiny it could fit into a single bacteria. First, architects map out which routes go where so that millions of switches -- the transistors -- can direct traffic in the form of ones and zeroes that shoot from transmitters to transreceivers across silicon expressways (called "buses").

Dell Announces Low-Cost Sub-Notebook

Chris Dannen — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:57:42 -0400

Emboldened by the success of low-cost, ultra portable laptops, Dell [NASDAQ: DELL] has finally entered the market with a basic laptop for the developing world. According to the official Dell blog, this machine is “positioned... as the perfect device for the next billion internet users," and while hard specifications haven't been released, it looks from press photos to feature a sub-10-inch screen and a bright red case. In most other ways, it appears to be what Michael Dell called in his blog a “mini Inspiron.”

Asus Confirms 10-inch Eee PC Announcement

Chris Dannen — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:48:13 -0400

The rumor mill has been confident for quite some time that Asus [TPE:2357] would follow up its successful line of Eee PCs with even larger screen models, and the official word is in. According to Cnet UK, which got its dirt directly from a company spokesperson, a 10-inch screen version of the subnotebook will be launched on Tuesday, June 2nd at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan.