New netbooks from the Eeepc family pack in higher tech

Who wold have thought that an Asus Eeepc, which comes from a tiny family of mini-laptops, could end up (even for a short while) the most advanced laptop on the market? Altough tablets are now getting much of the attention and devices like netbooks are slowly starting to fade away, that branch of mobile devices [...]

Intel Atom N550 released today

The Atom N550 dual core processor was released by Intel on Monday. The new processor is to be used in netbooks as the market demands higher performances from these devices. Although netbooks were initially made for internet browsing and few resource demanding applications such as word processing, with time the technology progressed a lot and [...]

Jolicloud 1.0 released and slowly gaining ground

Jolicloud is a Linux distribution aimed at small devices such as netbooks and other devices “on the go”. It is based on the concept of cloud computing. What this means is that most of the apps are web-based apps. It is meant to be a direct competitor to the upcoming Google Chrome OS and Android, [...]

Acer confirms it will release the first Android powered netbook in Q3 2009

Acer reaffirmed today that it will indeed release the first ever Google Android powered netbook in this year’s Q3. The Android-based Aspire One, as it’s been called, will run on Intel Atom processor, but so far hardware technical specs have yet to surfaced. It’s gonna be a whole lot cheaper than most of it’s segment [...]