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iFive: Intel's Atom and Apps, Verion's V-Cast, Google's Me, Social Apps are Bad For You, HTC Tablet

Welcome to Wednesday: Shake off those dregs of sleepiness, and learn about today's news.READ»

INTEL   |  Comment

Staci Palmer Helps Farmers Operate Tractors Remotely

Director of strategic market development, low-power embedded processing, Intel Chandler, Arizona Palmer, 44, works with equipment manufacturers to develop applications using Intel's Atom processors to lend intelligence and ...READ»

Left Out of the iPad Party, Intel Bad-Mouths Tablet PCs

Intel's execs have just been bad-mouthing tablet PCs and voice-control on cellphones--neither is particularly promising tech, say the boys from the big chip-maker. What's their motivation for saying this? Sour grapes it would seem. ...READ»

Want a DIY Netbook Built to Your Exacting Standards? Ask Guo Bang

How do you know when a device has moved from being the hot, must-have tech to a standard commodity, cheap at half the price? When you can buy a DIY mix-n-match version of it, like you now can for netbooks thanks to a chinese ...READ»

RESEARCH   |  Comment

Moving Atoms at IBM to Build Smaller Storage Devices

IBM's Almaden Research Center is where the hard drive was invented so we visited there to find out what kinds of things they are working on today. Our cameras found a group of scientists moving atoms of Iron around one at a time with ...READ»

SERVER   |  Comment

Servers Get Cheaper, Courtesy of Netbook Hardware

Some cost-conscious server companies are beginning to use netbook hardware inside their machines to cut costs, according to The New York Times. Intel's low-cost, low-power Atom CPU, which can be found in pretty much every netbook on ...READ»

Apple Won't Make Netbooks, but Its Manufacturer Will

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. After ...READ»

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

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 ...READ»

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

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 ...READ»

INTEL   |  Comment

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

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 ...READ»

LINUX   |  Comment

Segmenting Inside

The embedded Linux market is a tough one to segment, as show by how two of the top contenders try.READ»

Can Intel's New Atom Chips Liven Up Netbooks?

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. With ...READ»

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

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 ...READ»

ASPIRE   |  Comment

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

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 ...READ»

INTEL   |  Comment

Intel Ensures Better Next-Gen Netbooks With New Atom Chips

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 ...READ»

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

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:  1. With the auto industry on the fritz, President Obama rolls out the beginning of his auto ...READ»

COMPUTING   |  Comment

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

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 ...READ»

TYSON   |  Comment

The Six Best Things on the Web this Week

In case you spent your week "working," here's what you missed online: card-counting iPhones, Mac Mini spy-shots, Depression predictions, and two refreshing arguments against Malcolm Gladwell and intelligent design. Oh, and a sleep-walking dog, to keep things highbrow.READ»

WIFI   |  Comment

The Six Tech Marvels We Had Better See In 2009

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?READ»

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How To Love A Netbook

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, ...READ»