January 24, 2009 – 12:54 pm
The MSI Wind U120 is now available for purchase after it was announced a few months ago and recently shown off at CES 2009.
The price is $470 which doesn’t exactly make it a budget buy, but it does have some cool features that weren’t there in its predecessor. The option of either 3.5G Solution or [...]
January 23, 2009 – 11:27 am
For the first time in its 33-year history, Microsoft is planning a major redundancy with 5,000 jobs — about 5% of the company’s 94,000 strong workforce — ready to be axed, 1,400 of those with immediate effect. This comes in the face of an 11% drop in net income for the last quarter compared to [...]
January 23, 2009 – 11:11 am
“Oh my God, not again!”. Sorry guys, but I have to report another limited edition netbook ready to hit shelves for Valentine’s Day. This comes just two days after we announced the release of a Valentine Edition MSI Wind U100.
The next in line to cash in on the highly commercialized Valentine’s Day is Samsung, who [...]
January 23, 2009 – 10:57 am
TechCrunch has posted a new screenshot of Jolicloud, a Linux-based operating system being built by Tariq Krim and optimized specifically for netbooks.
The screenshot shows an attractive, easy-to-use looking screen with large icons because of smaller netbook screens. Krim told TechCrunch that his OS will eventually support touchscreens too, and this definitely looks like something worth [...]
January 22, 2009 – 11:15 am
Sotec (Onkyo Japan) released one of the cutest netbooks I’ve seen late last year — the Hello Kitty themed Sotec C101. But apparently they weren’t satisfied with the model as they have decided to ditch the C101 in favor of… wait for it… the C102.
Akihabara News has the word and the new C102 is technically [...]
January 22, 2009 – 11:00 am
Dell recently announced the Mini 10 netbook at CES 2009 and since then many have been wondering what it will cost. That information may have been revealed by an unlikely source — a supermarket here in the UK.
Tesco has uploaded a product page for the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and prices it at £349 (US$480). [...]
January 21, 2009 – 2:49 pm
I4U News has an interesting story via Biz360 about netbooks and apparent dissatisfaction towards them by consumers.
A study by the analysis firm has shown that despite immense growth in the netbook genre, customers are not overly pleased with what they are getting.
The main reason is low performance which suggests that consumers don’t realize thats why [...]
January 21, 2009 – 2:41 pm
HP’s new “business netbook”, the Mini 2140, is now available to buy. Announced earlier in the month, the 2140 is business-friendly because of a unique keyboard that is 92% the size of a full-sized one, and it also comes with a 6-cell battery for longer lasting power. The sleek and shiny aluminum case also gives [...]
January 21, 2009 – 2:32 pm
MSI is ready to pounce on romantics by releasing the Wind U100 in a pink Valentine’s Day edition in time for the special day. The Valentine Edition will be on sale at $429, but they are giving away 15 of them for free — if you’re willing to upload a photo of yourself and your [...]
January 20, 2009 – 5:15 pm
Toshiba’s 8.9-inch NB100 netbook is about to get an upgrade, with CrunchGear reporting that two new sequels to the original called the NB100HF and NB100H are on the way.
Like the original, both new NB100 models will come powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor and 1GB of RAM, along with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The [...]
